Talk:Build Instructor Guide

Build Instructor Training Itinerary (August 4th, 2010)

Introduction

• everyone say how long they've been Build instructors, what their favorite thing about it is or why they want to be a Build instructor.
• Statistics on how many computers we've built & given away since March
• Comments from LimeSurvey (1 constructive criticism & 2 compliments)

Announcements

• How the Lucid upgrade is coming along/discussing recurring issues (Caitlin)
• Reminder to have Builders take the online survey when they've completed their take home boxes

Recap from last training

• Has anyone tried some of these things? If so, how did it go?
  • Inviting the Build room in
  • Making the Builder "drive"
  • Encouraging Builders to seek out information on their own

Brainstorming Sessions

• When some one is new, what do you tell them to orient them?
  • If you had more time, what would you tell them?

• Ideally, we would like to be able to teach people how to build computers without relying on the Free Geek infrastructure. As a first step, what are our learning objectives for our Builders?
  • What things are you surprised people don't know by their 6th box?

Q & A

• If there's time

Food

• Pizza!

Introduction

• everyone introduces themselves and describes how they became a build instructor/why they are interested in becoming a build instructor.
• Share feedback from surveys
• Share statistics showing computers granted/given away. Not possible without our build instructors

Training Objectives

• to present strategies for making our build program as educational as possible
• to collaboratively create best practices for working with volunteer builders
• to better prepare new instructors
• share acquired knowledge and wisdom
• avenue for communication between build instructors
• bring everyone together on the same page regarding changes and basic procedures
• to workshop challenging scenarios

Review Build Instructor and Assistant Duties

• disbursing systems: make sure builders know about tech support and receive an ubuntu new user faq.

workshop challenging scenarios

• in this section, ask instructors how they handle these scenarios
• teacher tips within this section

this should be the bulk of the training

Snacks to get

• fruit salad
• cheese and bread
• salami
• (maybe) sandwich fixins
• soda
• dessert