Instructor Training Form

Trainees selected by Carpentries member organizations are asked to complete this Profile Creation form. This creates an entry in our database and allows us to record attendance and track your progress through the Instructor certification process. Form responses are not reviewed in detail but may be used in programmatic assessment. Your application materials and information about your progress towards The Carpentries Instructor certification may be shared with our contacts at your member site. Please note that this form is separate from event registration. Your site contact will provide you with instructions to register for an Instructor Training event.

More details about the Instructor role are available on the Become an Instructor page on The Carpentries website. To learn more about what the training will cover, please see our Instructor Training curriculum.

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Personal (given) name*

Family name (surname)

Registration Code*

If you have been given a registration code through a Carpentries member site or for a specific scheduled event, please enter it here:

Eventbrite URL

If you are registering or have registered for a training event through Eventbrite, enter the URL of that event. You can find this on the registration page or in the confirmation email. If you have not yet registered for an event, leave this field blank.

Email address*

Secondary email address

This is an optional, secondary email address we can use to contact you.

GitHub username

Please put only a single username here. After your application has been accepted, you will be able to use your GitHub username to log in to our database to view your profile.

What is your current occupation/career stage?

Please choose the one that best describes you.

Prefer not to say

Undergraduate student

Graduate student

Post-doctoral researcher

Faculty

Research staff (including research programmer)

Support staff (including technical support)

Librarian/archivist

Commercial software developer

Other:

Affiliation*

Location*

Please give city, and province or state if applicable. Do not share a full mailing address.

Country*

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This is a small, remote, or under-resourced institution The Carpentries strive to make workshops accessible to as many people as possible, in as wide a variety of situations as possible.

Areas of expertise

Please check all that apply.

Chemistry

Civil, mechanical, chemical, or nuclear engineering

Computer science/electrical engineering

Economics/business

Education

Genetics, genomics, bioinformatics

High performance computing

Humanities

Library and information science

Mathematics/statistics

Medicine

Organismal biology (ecology, botany, zoology, microbiology)

Physics

Planetary sciences (geology, climatology, oceanography, etc.)

Psychology/neuroscience

Social sciences

Space sciences

Other:

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I self-identify as a member of a group that is under-represented in research and/or computing.*

The Carpentries strives to increase opportunities for underrepresented groups to join our team.

Yes

No

Prefer not to say

If you are comfortable doing so, please share more details.

This response is optional and doesn't impact your application's ranking.

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I have been an active contributor to other volunteer or non-profit groups with significant teaching or training components.

Provide details or leave blank if this doesn't apply to you.

In which of the following ways have you been involved with The Carpentries

Please check all that apply.

Helper

Instructor

Workshop host

Learner

Workshop organizer

Contributed to lesson materials

Supporting Instructor

Previous formal training as a teacher or instructor*

None

A few hours

A workshop

A certification or short course

A full degree

Other:

Description of your previous training in teaching

Previous experience in teaching*

Please include teaching experience at any level from grade school to post-secondary education.

None

A few hours

A workshop (full day or longer)

Teaching assistant for a full course

Primary instructor for a full course

Other:

Description of your previous experience in teaching

How frequently do you work with the tools that The Carpentries teach, such as R, Python, MATLAB, Perl, SQL, Git, OpenRefine, and the Unix Shell?*

Every day

A few times a week

A few times a month

A few times a year

Never or almost never

Do you intend to complete The Carpentries checkout process to be certified as a Carpentries Instructor?*

The checkout process is described on our Checkout Instructions page.

Yes

No

Not sure

Do you intend to teach Carpentries workshops within the next 12 months?*

Yes - I plan to teach Carpentries workshops in my local community or personal networks

Yes - I plan to volunteer with The Carpentries to teach workshops for other communities

Yes - either or both of the above

No

Not sure

How often would you expect to teach Carpentries workshops (of any kind) after this training?*

Not at all

Once a year

Several times a year

Other:

How frequently would you be able to travel to teach such classes?*

Not at all

Once a year

Several times a year

Other:

Why do you want to attend this training course?*

Anything else?

What else do you want us to know?

I agree to abide by The Carpentries' Code of Conduct.*

Captcha*

Do you agree to the transfer of your data outside of the European Economic Area/United Kingdom?*

Given the international nature of our organisation, to be able to process your personal data, it is necessary for us to transfer or share your personal data outside the European Economic Area/United Kingdom. You acknowledge that your personal data may be collected and transferred from your local jurisdiction (including those in the European Economic Area (EEA) and the UK) to the United States or other jurisdictions. --------- Yes

The Carpentries will contact you about the progress of your application and, once certified, about teaching opportunities. May we also contact you for other volunteering opportunities, surveys, feedback, etc.?*

If you give us your consent to contact you here, we may occasionally reach out to you for new volunteering opportunities in the community, surveys, or opportunities to provide us with feedback. You can change this setting at any time from your AMY profile. In any case, we will contact you to provide you with legal notices and to provide you with necessary information related to workshops and training events with The Carpentries. If you are subscribed to our mailing lists, they all have options to opt-out. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to us at team@carpentries.org. --------- Yes No

I acknowledge that I am at least 16 years old.*

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I have read and agree to the privacy policy of The Carpentries.*

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The Carpentries will not make public any of your personal data when going through the application process. However, once certified, do you consent to your name and any linked social media accounts being published on The Carpentries website?*

Allow posting your name and any public profile you list (website, Twitter) on our website. Emails will not be posted. --------- Yes No