Welcome to the Education Team

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Projected Time
This training will take roughly 90 minutes to complete.
Aims
By the end of this training you should be able to
Describe the core pedagogy of CodeYourFuture
Categorise the responsibilities of different roles at CodeYourFuture
Understand your next steps into the Education Team
Plan where you want to take your CodeYourFuture journey
Prior Knowledge
To take part in this training you are expected to 
have attended a Welcome or Onboarding event for CodeYourFuture
want to be a part of the Education Team
Slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cnVCT6zxoxT1s4IMu90XvXep33ydPa0yIO8w6EMDM9Y/edit
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Training
The Pedagogy of CodeYourFuture
1) Communitised Learning
Our lessons are community events
No one person dominates the lesson
We use lots of people to provide individual support
We promote group based activities
2) Anti-Lecture Lesson Structure
The taught content can (and should) take the form of a variety of techniques including
Taught examples
Live coding
Group Discussions
Videos, Case Studies
3) Fear Reducing Lessons
The aims of our lessons are too
Prepare our students for their coursework
Introduce new concepts in a managed and pedagogically satisfactory way
Provide support and community for the students (and for you!)
Your Journey with CodeYourFuture
Education Team Roles
At it's highest level the mission of the Education Team is to 
Create an inclusive learning community that communitises failure, encourages growth through challenge and provides support to those that need it most. 
In practically what this means is the course services that we provide to our students
Community, class based learning once a week - our lessons on Saturday/Sunday
Dedicated support structures during the week - our Buddy Mentoring system
A 24 hour community of fellow learners - our online community on Slack
These tasks are broadly separated into roles undertaken by different people at different times.
Lead Teacher
Teaching Assistant
Syllabus Team
Education Buddy
Education Director
Exercise 
Take a look at the Google Sheet below. 

In it, you'll find a column of tasks that members of the Education Team undertake and a row of roles at CodeYourFuture.
1.Split into Groups
2.One person, create a Copy of this Google Sheet
3.Share your screen with your group
4.Copy & Paste each of the tasks in to each column as you see fit.
Note: Each task might fit into more than one column!
When you've finished we'll re-group and discuss.
Tools
Slack
On your journey to becoming a volunteer at CodeYourFuture you will recieve access to our Slack Workspace. This is where all of our communication happens and were are classes take place.
If you haven't already we ask you to
Set your name as your real name
Set your display picture as picture of you (or a cartoon picture of you if you'd prefer)
In addition to the normal rules of Slack (e.g. use Threads, don't use @channel, etc ) we operate on a these golden rules
1) Communicate, coordinate and collaborate in public channels
2) Discuss students in private channels
3) Do not use direct messages (were possible)
We're a large and growing organisation where information needs to flow smoothly - it's one of our key challenges. By communicating in direct messages or in private channels it makes it really hard for people to stay up to date why the schools. 
With that said there are some recommended channel that you join. Firstly, you should join the cities associated with you City. They will always be named with the name of your city at the front.
For example, if you are attending in the West Midlands you would want to join
westmidlands, westmidlands-edu, westmidlands-class1 
Any channels with the prefix cyf- are global channels. 
You will also want to join the public channels associated with the syllabus. Firstly, there is 
cyf-syllabus 
For generic Syllabus discussion 
Then there are the specific module channels, for example
cyf-module-html-css, cyf-module-node, cyf-module-mongodb
Github
We use Github to store and review homework for the students. You'll often find it linked from the Syllabus. 
For now, the most important part is that you are added as a collaborator to our `Mentors` Github Team
​https://github.com/orgs/CodeYourFuture/teams/mentors​
Syllabus
Our Syllabus is the home to all of our Tech Education Teaching Content
CodeYourFuture Syllabus | CodeYourFuture Syllabus
Docs Website
Our Docs website is where we keep all of our day to day operations materials. 
Welcome to CodeYourFuture Docs
Documentation
Exercise
Spend five minutes either reading through the Docs or the Syllabus and I want you to select two items that you either 
Didn't know about CYF before reading
Found interesting
Stood out as being unusual
We'll then come back and discuss
Your First Role at a Teaching Assistant
How Classes Work
More details on how classes are run can be found here.
What you'll be expected to do?
More details about your role can be found here.
Next Steps
Attend a Teacher Training event
Attend Buddy Training
Attend Lead Teacher Training
Coursework
Offer help to a student this week
Read and watch content on the Teacher Training website
Teacher Resources
Education-Career-Journey.json
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Code
Excalidraw File for Journey Diagram Above