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- "Don't teach or learn alone."
- "Belief that competence comes with practice improves learning outcomes."
- "Measures taken to improve accessibility aid everyone."
- "Measures taken to make learning more inclusive aid everyone."
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In order for learners to step out into new and familiar terrain, they will
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> using an authentic task that is relevant to their research.
{: .callout}

* Strategies to establish value:
1. Connect the material to students' interests.
2. Provide authentic, real-world tasks.
3. Show relevance to students' current academic lives.
4. Demonstrate the relevance of higher-level skills to students' future professional lives.
5. Identify and reward what you value.
6. Show your own passion and enthusiasm for the discipline.
* Strategies to build positive expectations:
1. Ensure alignment of objectives, assessments, and instructional strategies.
2. Identify an appropriate level of challenge.
3. Create assignments that provide the appropriate level of challenge.
4. Provide early success opportunities.
5. Articulate your expectations.
6. Provide rubrics.
7. Provide targeted feedback.
8. Be fair.
9. Educate students about the ways we explain success and failure.
10. Describe effective study strategies.
* Strategies for self-efficacy:
1. Provide flexibility and control.
2. Give students an opportunity to reflect.

> ## Brainstorming Motivational Strategies
>
> *Think* back to a computational (or other) course you took in the past, and
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> assumed you could actually walk?
{: .callout}

## Inclusivity

*Inclusivity* is a policy of including people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized.
In computing,
it means making a positive effort to be more welcoming to women,
people of color,
people with various sexual orientations,
the elderly,
the physically challenged,
the formerly incarcerated,
the economically disadvantaged,
and everyone else who doesn't fit Silicon Valley's white/Asian male demographic.
Lee's paper
"[What can I do today to create a more inclusive community in CS?]({{ page.root }}/files/papers/lee-create-inclusive-community-2015.pdf)"
(which you were asked to read before the workshop)
is a brief, practical guide to doing that with references to the research literature.
These help learners who belong to one or more margainalized or excluded groups,
but help motivate everyone else as well;
while they are phrased in terms of term-long courses,
many can be applied in our workshops,
such as:

* asking learners to email you before the workshop
to explain how they believe the training could help them achieve their goals;
* reviewing notes to make sure they are free from gendered pronouns,
that they include culturally diverse names,
etc.;
* emphasize that what matters is the rate at which they are learning,
not the advantages or disadvantages they had when they started;
* encouraging pair programming; and
* actively mitigate behavior that some learners may find intimidating,
e.g.,
use of jargon or "questions" that are actually asked to display knowledge.

> ## Pick One
>
> 1. Pick one activity or change in practice from
> [Lee's paper]({{ page.root }}/files/papers/lee-create-inclusive-community-2015.pdf)
> that you would like to work on.
> 2. Put a reminder in your calendar three months in the future
> to self-check whether you have done something about it.
{: .challenge}

[ada-initiative-resources]: http://adainitiative.org/continue-our-work/impostor-syndrome-training/
[amazon-clubhouse]: http://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Computing-Jane-Margolis/dp/0262632691/
[amazon-hlw]: http://www.amazon.com/How-Learning-Works-Research-Based-Jossey-Bass/dp/0470484101/
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group. Note: this can be done while setting up before the start of
the class.


## Exercises

* Have students write answers to the initial MCQ in the Etherpad
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1. Discuss metacognition in the classroom. The evidence-based teaching style of Software Carpentry is not proprietary or hidden, so share what you know about learning in the classroom and why you are taking certain approaches.
1. Provide heuristics for self-correction. Learners need to develop a skill for evaluating their own work. While this skill will take time to develop, you can provide 'guideposts' for what their code and results should look like.

## Motivational Strategies

* Strategies to establish value:
1. Connect the material to students' interests.
2. Provide authentic, real-world tasks.
3. Show relevance to students' current academic lives.
4. Demonstrate the relevance of higher-level skills to students' future professional lives.
5. Identify and reward what you value.
6. Show your own passion and enthusiasm for the discipline.
* Strategies to build positive expectations:
1. Ensure alignment of objectives, assessments, and instructional strategies.
2. Identify an appropriate level of challenge.
3. Create assignments that provide the appropriate level of challenge.
4. Provide early success opportunities.
5. Articulate your expectations.
6. Provide rubrics.
7. Provide targeted feedback.
8. Be fair.
9. Educate students about the ways we explain success and failure.
10. Describe effective study strategies.
* Strategies for self-efficacy:
1. Provide flexibility and control.
2. Give students an opportunity to reflect.

## Books

Susan Ambrose et al: *[How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching][amazon-hlw]*.
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