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Module-How-our-curriculum-works πŸ”—

This view lists the issues for this sprint. You can think of the issues in this view as actions to guide you in your first interactions with the community.

Review success page for self educate πŸŽ‰ πŸ”— Clone

Prerequisites

  1. Attend an in-person Saturday class

Instructions

  1. Check the success page for the self educate module
  2. If there’s still anything you’re unsure about on the success page, ask a member of the community for support in checking your understanding

Why are we doing this?

It is really important to check you’ve understood the module as you go along. You can use the success page as a checkpoint to review your understanding before heading to the next section in this module, Self-coordinate

Acceptance criteria

  • You have met all the learning objectives for the self educate module
  • πŸ• Priority Mandatory
  • πŸ‡ Size Small
  • πŸ’‘ Self educate
Locate the activity handbook 🧰 πŸ”— Clone

Prerequisites

  1. Attend an in-person Saturday class

Instructions

  1. Ask another trainee or volunteer if they can locate the activity handbook on the curriculum website (hint: It’s a “Guide”)
  2. Together, double-check you can locate the activity handbook on the curriculum website

Why are we doing this?

For volunteers who are completely new to an educational setting it is useful to know some activities you can use to promote dialogue and exploration of the current week’s concepts whilst in an in-person class. The activity handbook lists many ways you can start engaging with the module’s concepts.

Acceptance criteria

  • You can locate the CYF activity handbook
  • You can locate the source markdown for the activities on the curriculum repo
  • You use one of the activities with a small group of trainees at CYF
  • πŸ• Priority Mandatory
  • πŸ¦” Size Tiny
  • πŸ’‘ Self educate
Locate the current workshop πŸ”— Clone

Prerequisites

  1. Attend an in-person Saturday class

Instructions

  1. Ask a trainee or volunteer to confirm which week they’re up to in the curriculum and then locate the day plan for the current class
  2. From the day plan, find the workshop in the day plan
  3. Using the link on the day plan, locate the source markdown for the workshop in the CYF-Workshops repo

Why are we doing this?

Every Saturday, trainees and volunteers use workshops to explore, discuss and solve problems related to the current work from the week. Therefore, it is important you can locate the workshops to see how we collectively build understanding together.

Acceptance criteria

  • You can locate the CYF-Workshops repo
  • You can locate the day plan for the current class
  • You can locate the source markdown for the current workshop
  • πŸ• Priority Mandatory
  • πŸ¦” Size Tiny
  • πŸ’‘ Self educate
Locate the current prep work πŸ”— Clone

Prerequisites

  1. Attend an in-person Saturday class

Instructions

  1. Ask a trainee or volunteer to confirm which week they’re up to in the curriculum and then identify the prep page for the current week.

Why are we doing this?

To best support the community on Saturdays, it is crucial you can locate the current prep work.

Acceptance criteria

  • You can locate the prep work for the current class you are attending
  • πŸ• Priority Mandatory
  • πŸ¦” Size Tiny
  • πŸ’‘ Self educate
Discuss a technical problem in Slack πŸ”— Clone

Prerequisites

  1. Attend an in-person Saturday class

Instructions

  1. Attend an in-person Saturday class
  2. During the Independent study section of the day plan, identify a group of trainees who are struggling to solve a problem
  3. Create a problem report in Slack that encourages trainees to explain the problem they’re working on and how they intend to solve it.

Why are we doing this?

The purpose of this task is several fold:

  • Encourage new members of our community to engage in meaningful educational dialogue with our current trainees
  • Build a culture of rigorous question asking and exploration
  • Reinforce good practices when it comes to asking questions and discovering new knowledge

Acceptance criteria

  • A problem report is posted in the Class channel
  • πŸ• Priority Mandatory
  • πŸ‡ Size Small
  • πŸ› Debug
  • πŸ’‘ Self educate