Data Science and AI Educators' Programme: Mentoring notes

Data Science and AI Educators' Programme: Mentoring notes === ###### tags: `mentoring meeting` `DS-AI-Educators'-Programme` :::info - **Call time and day**: TBC with the group - **Meeting chair**: [enter name] - **Meeting note-taker** [enter name] - **Meeting time-keeper** [enter name] - **Call joining link**: [enter Zoom link here] ::: The mentoring sessions are an opportunity for you to discuss your learning, any challenges you are currently experiencing and any challenges you might face moving forward. We encourage you to use these sessions as a safe space to share best practice and support one another in your development as Data Science and AI educators. To make the most of this opportunity, it is important that you meet weekly. Please try to find a mutually convenient time each week to meet for between 30 minutes and 1 hour. It may be useful to assign a meeting chair, note-taker and time-keeper. You can use the blue box, above, to take note of who will fulfill these roles. Below, you will find a suggested structure for each week's call. There may be sessions where you have other organic conversations, without the need for a structure. This is perfectly fine - the structure is there as a prompt, should you need to use it. **Table of contents** [TOC] ## Week 1 : w/c 1 May 2023 **Roll call** - - - - ### Agenda and Notes for Week 1 - Introductions - get to know each other - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - Tell your peers about yourself - where you work/why you applied to the programme etc. - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - Set some personal goals: what do you hope to achieve through participation in this programme? Where would you like to be by the end of this programme? - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - What are your plans to take this programme/new learning into your own community? - What teaching or 'educator' experience do you have and how do you hope the programme will add to this experience? _**Meeting logistics & Reminders**_ - Decide on a time and a day that works to meet every week. If you cannot find a mutual day every week (and in advance), agree to co-ordinate on a week-by-week basis the best time to meet. Will you set up a poll? Who will co-odinate this? _**Task after this call**_ - Next week's cohort call is on 'Identifying Learner Needs'. Please take time to reflect on how you identify learner needs and any questions you might have. ## Week 2 : 8 May 2023 **Roll call** - - - - ### Agenda and Notes for Week 2 Quick check in - how are you all doing? Spend some time reflecting on the learning from Week 1 (Carpentries pedagogy sessions). Think about the following questions as prompts for discussion: - What did you learn that you didn't know before? [TAKE NOTES HERE] - Was there anything unusual or interesting that came up during the sessions? [TAKE NOTES HERE] - Was there a concept that you found challenging? Why? [TAKE NOTES HERE] - Are there any concrete examples that you could apply in your role as an educator? [TAKE NOTES HERE] _**Task after this call**_ - Next week's cohort call will involve a problem-solving clinic around common challenges in teaching Data Science and AI. Please come prepared to discuss some of the challenges you face in your role as an educator. ## Week 3 : 15 May 2023 **Roll call** - - - - ### Agenda and Notes for Week 3 Quick check in - how are you all doing? This week, we would like you to focus on the 'Building Skill With Feedback' module from Week 1. The session discussed how formative assessment tools can be used to help identify learner misconceptions during a course/lesson/programme etc. With your group, please discuss the following and take notes where appropriate. _You should use your own teaching/instructing/educating experience to inform your discussion and give concrete, useful examples where possible._ - Consider a lesson that you have taught (or plan to teach). What potential misconceptions might your learner encounter? - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - How can you ensure that your material and delivery mitigates this misconception? - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - How could you use a formative assessment strategy(such as multiple choice questions) to mitigate this misconception? - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - Again, considering your own experiences and practice, what other examples of formative assessment could you use? Think about how this would apply to a lesson that you plan to teach (or have taught). - [TAKE NOTES HERE] _**Task after this call**_ For next week's call, you will be looking at memory and cognitive load in the context of a session/lesson/training that you have led (or participated in). Please bring this teaching material to your next mentoring session. An overview with approximate timings of the session, plus the content covered will suffice. ## Week 4 : 22 May 2023 **Roll call** - - - - ### Agenda and Notes for Week 4 Quick check in - how are you all doing? This week, we would like you to focus on the 'Memory and Cognitive Load' module from Week 1. The session discussed the benefits of guided practice and formative assessment, as well as some tips for consolidating content. With your group, please discuss the following and take notes where appropriate. - Looking at the materials you have brought with you today, imagine yourself as a learner in this lesson. Is the information presented in short chunks, followed by an opportunity for consolidation of the concept(s) taught (through some kind of formative assessment)? If not, work together to re-jig the session, adding opportunities for consolidation, where possible. - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - In order to reduce cognitive load on a learner, we can also use a strategy called scaffolding. This introduces small, easily-digestible concepts step-by-step until they reach the final 'learning goal'. How could you scaffold _your_ session to support your learners? - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - How could you incorporate some guided practice into your session? What is the value of guided practice? - [TAKE NOTES HERE] _**Task after this call**_ Before next week, please prepare a short, 5-minute session to deliver to your group. This will be an opportunity to 'teach' and receive feedback from your peers. You can teach any concept you like, providing that, by the end of your 5-minutes, your learners will have grasped the concept! You will each receive feedback on both your delivery _and_ your content, so please ensure that you have started to consider/incoporate pedagogical elements that you have learned so far. If you would like to pair up to deliver a 10-minute session together, you may. ## Week 5 : 29 May 2023 **Roll call** - - - - ### Agenda and Notes for Week 5 Quick check in - how are you all doing? This week, we would like you to focus on the 'Teaching is a Skill' module from Week 1. The session was an opportunity to practice teaching and receive feedback on your delivery. Today, you will repeat the exercise, this time thinking about giving feedback on delivery _and_ content. You should consider elements such as memory and cognitive load, opportunities for assessment as well as the overall delivery. - [NAME] - [FEEDBACK HERE] - [NAME] - [FEEDBACK HERE] - [NAME] - [FEEDBACK HERE] - [NAME] - [FEEDBACK HERE] - [NAME] - [FEEDBACK HERE] ## Week 6 : 5 June 2023 **Roll call** - - - - ### Agenda and Notes for Week 6 Quick check in - how are you all doing? This week, we would like you to focus on last week's 'Making Learning Memorable' cohort call. - What did you learn that you didn't know before? - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - Was there anything unusual or interesting that came up during the sessions? - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - Was there a concept that you found challenging? Why? - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - Are there any concrete examples that you could apply in your role as an educator? - [TAKE NOTES HERE] ## Week 7 : 12 June 2023 **Roll call** - - - - ### Agenda and Notes for Week 7 Quick check in - how are you all doing? This week, we would like you to focus on motivational and positive learning environments. This might include, though not be limited to, aspects such as growth mindset, encouraging participation and creating a positive, safe learning environment. Today, you're going to think about what has motivated you to become an 'educator' and write a short explanation. This should take about 5 minutes. When you've finished, share it with the group - you can also save this as part of your teaching philosophy for future reference. - [NAME] - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - [NAME] - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - [NAME] - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - [NAME] - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - [NAME] - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - What do you notice about the motivations you have to teach? - Is there some diversity amongst your group? Is this a good thing? - Why would it be important for the learner to embrace their errors? - Why would it be important for the educator to embrace their errors too? ## Week 8 : 19 June 2023 **Roll call** - - - - ### Agenda and Notes for Week 8 Quick check in - how are you all doing? This week, we would like you to focus on the last two weeks of 'Embedding Ethics' cohort calls. - What did you learn that you didn't know before? - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - Was there anything unusual or interesting that came up during the sessions? - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - Was there a concept that you found challenging? Why? - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - Are there any concrete examples that you could apply in your role as an educator? ## Week 9 : 26 June 2023 **Roll call** - - - - ### Agenda and Notes for Week 9 Quick check in - how are you all doing? This week, we are going to think about 'Preparing to Educate'. You will never know everything about your learners. Thinking deeply about them as people will help you to prepare and create the most inclusive environment for everyone. Today you will have two activities: - Take a moment to imagine a learner who might attend your class/workshop/programme/session etc. What is their background? What problems do they face? What do they have to gain from attending this session? Create a learner profile and share this with your group. How are you going to meet their needs? - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - Take a moment to think of a learning objective from a workshops/class/session that you have led (or intend to lead). - Suppose a learner has mastered this objective and wanted to try someting more cognitively challenging on the exact same topic. Take some time to brainstorm what objective they could work towards next. Share this with the group. - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - Suppose a learner struggled to meet the specified objective. What might they be missing? How would you support them? Indentify one more fundamental thing the learner needs to be able to do in order to be successful in meeting this objective. - [TAKE NOTES HERE] ## Week 10 : w/c 3 July 2023 **Roll call** - - - - ### Agenda and Notes for Week 10 Quick check in - how are you all doing? This week, we are going to think about working with a team/collaboratively to develop training materials (TBC - details to follow soon) ## Week 11 : w/c 10 July 2023 **Roll call** - - - - ### Agenda and Notes for Week 11 Quick check in - how are you all doing? This week will be about preparing for the graduation. Please use the time to work on your graduation presentations, using your peers as a sounding board if needed. The graduation sessions are a brilliant opportunity for you to have a final reflection and networking session, in which we can celebrate some of your highlights and think ahead to what comes next. Therefore, in preparation for the sessions, we ask that you kindly prepare a short, 3-minute presentation about your time on the Data Science and AI Educators’ Programme. Slides are optional. We have prepared a selection of prompts to help you cover some of the information that you might like to share with your peers: - What is/are your highlight/s from the programme? - How will you apply some of your learning(s) from the programme to your line of work? - How do you intend to use the programme to impact your community? - How can other participants from the programme collaborate with you/get to know you better once the programme has finished? ## Week 12 : w/c 17 July 2023 **Roll call** - - - - ### Agenda and Notes for Week 12 Quick check in - how are you all doing? This will be your final week of the programme. Take a look back at the goals you set for yourself at the beginning of the programme. Have you met them? If there are any that you didn't meet, or only partially met, what steps can you take to ensure that you work towards meeting the goal? Can your peers support you in this? - [NAME] - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - [NAME] - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - [NAME] - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - [NAME] - [TAKE NOTES HERE] - [NAME] - [TAKE NOTES HERE]