{"id":683,"date":"2018-06-26T09:54:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T08:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/?p=683"},"modified":"2018-07-09T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T10:01:46","slug":"become-a-code-first-girls-instructor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2018\/06\/26\/become-a-code-first-girls-instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"Become a Code First Girls Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Code First: Girls<\/strong> are looking for volunteer instructors from the Computer Science student community at Kent to help teach coding to school children on campus. The time commitment would be a few hours one weekday evening for 8 weeks in the Autumn term. The course covers HTML\/CSS, GitHub, Twitter Bootstrap, JS and jQuery. All material and structure for the course are provided and instructors will be given training on how to teach the course before it starts. There is no homework to mark and very little time commitment outside of the weekly classes. It’s a fantastic opportunity for students to develop their presentation and public speaking skills, and potentially make a change on young women’s lives by inspiring them to a career in tech.<\/p>\n

Code First: Girls \u2013 Instructor overview<\/strong>
\nMay 2018<\/p>\n

What is Code First: Girls?<\/strong>
\n\u25cf Our aim is to help young women enter tech and entrepreneurship.
\n\u25cf We do this by running free programming courses, as well as other skills and personal development events such as hack your career days, annual conference, and summer hackathons.
\n\u25cf We\u2019re not affiliated to any specific organisation, but often piggyback off university associations.<\/p>\n

Our expectations of the instructor\/the role:<\/strong>
\n\u25cf Our instructors come from a variety of background, and include undergraduates, post
\ngraduates, working professionals and university lecturers. All instructors work on a voluntary basis.
\n\u25cf We welcome both male and female instructors
\n\u25cf All lesson plans and teaching material are provided
\n\u25cf For our standard courses – 2 hours teaching per week, over 8 weeks, in the evening (usually 6.30-8.30pm). We do also run master-classes and intensive courses which vary in topic and format.
\n\u25cf Instructors are not required to mark any homework, but we do ask that they allow students to contact then if they have any questions about the courses. This is usually done over a Slack channel.
\n\u25cf Instructors also play a role in the student screening process, where instructors choose who will take the course if the course is over-subscribed. Full training is given on how to do this.
\n\u25cf We aim to link all new instructors to previous CF:G instructors for support and advice
\n\u25cf We prefer instructors to commit for two semesters \u2013 this allow time to settle, and also helps handover\/continuity of knowledge and experience.
\n\u25cf We usually have three to four instructors (dependent on class size), one who is more experienced in teaching to take a lead, and the others to support (usually where the instructor is new, or less experienced in teaching programming). Whilst the lead instructor usually does more teaching, all instructors should feel comfortable with running a class if required.
\n\u25cf Popular languages and skills we cover in our courses include CSS, HTML, Ruby, Python, Heroku,
\nJavaScript, JQuery.<\/p>\n

What instructors gain from the experience:<\/strong>
\n\u25cf An opportunity to bid for any paid work which CFG is asked to fulfill. This might include teaching on our professionals course (for working women, for which a charge is made)
\n\u25cf An opportunity to be part of a 200-strong national network of instructors and programming professionals
\n\u25cf An invitation to our annual conference (held in the autumn)
\n\u25cf An invitation to our annual summer party (for the past few years held at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, this is a great networking event where instructors can meet each other, members of the CFG community and our corporate sponsors)
\n\u25cf An opportunity to develop your presenting and teaching skills
\n\u25cf A strongly linked student and corporate network, where we pass on any opportunities to speak, teach, jobs etc. to our instructors
\n\u25cf We are happy to provide references<\/p>\n

Instructor Syllabus (summary) HTML CSS 2018.docx (2) (1) (1)<\/a><\/p>\n

If you would like to know more or be considered for an instructor role please email your cv with
\ntwo references (including one at your current place of employment if you have one) with a short introduction to programmes@codefirstgirls.org.uk\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

You can find out more on Code First Girls at www.codefirstgirls.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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