diff --git a/learners/members.md b/learners/members.md index 68f9a4dfa..d60d04355 100644 --- a/learners/members.md +++ b/learners/members.md @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ --- -title: Information for Member Organisations +title: Information for Partner Organisations survey_link: ~ --- -Welcome to The Carpentries community. We are excited to welcome you as a member organisation. Our Instructor Training process is a vital component of how we spread the teaching culture of the Carpentries to new organisations. We're looking forward to meeting your team and helping them develop their teaching skills so you can have the best impact on the learners at your institution. +Welcome to The Carpentries community. We are excited to welcome you as a Partner organisation. Our Instructor Training process is a vital component of how we spread the teaching culture of the Carpentries to new organisations. We're looking forward to meeting your team and helping them develop their teaching skills so you can have the best impact on the learners at your institution. -Your annual membership gives you a number of slots in our Instructor Training program. This training is for people who want to become certified Instructors with The Carpentries and is based on our constantly updated open-source [curriculum](https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/). +Your annual Partnership gives you a number of slots in our Instructor Training program. This training is for people who want to become certified Instructors with The Carpentries and is based on our constantly updated open-source [curriculum](https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/). This two-day online workshop is a mix of lecture and hands-on practice and is highly interactive. Your trainees will learn evidence-based best-practices for teaching and strategies for creating a positive learning environment. They will have opportunities to practice these techniques and get feedback. This training will also help your team become integrated into the global Carpentries community. @@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ This two-day online workshop is a mix of lecture and hands-on practice and is hi - Trainees can register by clicking the registration link on the calendar page above and entering the code provided for your team. Your trainees may sign up individually for different events, or you may register all of your trainees for the same event. If your trainees will be attending separate events, we recommend that you organise a social event for your trainees and other Carpentry-affiliated people at your institution to get to know each other. Being familiar with other members of this group will help individuals at your organisation organise events and remain active long after training. -- We recommend that your team attends Instructor Training during the first six months of your membership year. This ensures they have time to complete the training requirements and start teaching workshops during your membership year. +- We recommend that your team attends Instructor Training during the first six months of your Partnership year. This ensures they have time to complete the training requirements and start teaching workshops during your Partnership year. -- If a trainee misses more than one hour of the training, they will not pass the training requirement and their spot will be forfeited. Because we are training people to deliver Carpentries training and be ambassadors of the Carpentries program, we need to ensure they get the full training experience. +- If a trainee misses more than one hour of the training, they will not pass the training requirement and their spot will be forfeited. Because we are training people to deliver Carpentries training and serve as ambassadors for the Carpentries program, we need to ensure they receive a full training experience. - Trainees may register or change their registration up to one week before the event. However, we recommend registering as early as possible, as these events fill up quickly. @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ This two-day online workshop is a mix of lecture and hands-on practice and is hi - Information about software/hardware requirements for the training, preparatory homework, and video-conference connection information will be provided one week before the event. -*Note that in order to provide the best experience for our trainees, in rare instances events may be canceled due to low enrollment. If this happens, you will be notified two weeks before the event and will have the opportunity to sign up for a future event.* +*Note that in order to provide the best experience for our trainees, in rare instances events may be canceled due to low enrollment. If this happens, you will be notified within two weeks of the event and will have the opportunity to sign up for a future event.* ## What to expect after the event: @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ This two-day online workshop is a mix of lecture and hands-on practice and is hi - After successfully completing the post-training exercises, participants will receive a PDF certificate attesting they are certified Carpentries Instructors and will have the opportunity to be listed on our [Instructor webpage](https://carpentries.org/instructors/). -- Consider encouraging your Instructors to volunteer with The Carpentries. This will give them opportunities to teach and share knowledge with experienced Carpentries Instructors around the world, enriching their practice and your community. +- Consider encouraging your Instructors to volunteer with The Carpentries. This will give them opportunities to teach and share knowledge with experienced Carpentries Instructors around the world, enriching their practice and your community. *There are [Service Discounts](https://carpentries.org/support/pricing/#membership-pricing) available towards Partnership packages when Instructors teach Centrally-Organised Workshops* - Ongoing support and mentorship for trained Instructors is also available through The Carpentries community sessions as well as through participation in other roles in The Carpentries community.