Those Who Care, Teach!

Teaching, inclusivity, diversity, and helpful language. From PyOhio 2017 and PyGotham 2017

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1. Those who care, teach!
2. Hello! I am Kenneth Love You can find me on almost any service as @kennethlove
3. CAVEAT 100% self-taught at teaching ? ? ?
4. Reaching a wide audience Help people listen 1.
5. Reassurances ▪ Learning is hard ▪ It’s OK to have to practice ▪ I had to learn this stuff, too
6. Encourage breaks ▪ No one works well on an empty stomach ▪ Blood flow helps the brain work ▪ A change of scenery for problem-solving
7. Inclusion ▪ Include ambiguous names and non-gendered pronouns ▪ Use names from other cultures and languages ▪ Don’t rely on idioms ▪ Slow down
9. ▪ Folks ▪ Everyone ▪ Friends & Enemies ▪ Youse Embrace the y’all
10. Moms get things done
11. Avoid four letter words !#?
12. No techshaming <?
13. Jargon TLA ▪ Computer Science-related terms ▪ Work projects and code names
14. Make misteakes ▪ Error handling ▪ Log and stacktrace parsing ▪ Typos ▪ Refactoring
15. MISTAKE ? ! ! !
16. Reinforcement Help people remember 2.
17. Coding challenges ▪ Keep instructions minimal and clear ▪ Approach from different angles ▪ Repeat whole previous challenges as single steps
18. Better than before ▪ Percentiles and grades can be depressing ▪ Care more about output than process, especially in the beginning
19. Repos and issues ▪ Provide code students can check out ▪ Have issues for them to solve
20. Story problems ▪ Provide touch points from industries and hobbies that aren’t programming ▪ Two benefits: representation and better connections between programming and life
21. Motion and design ▪ Abstraction ▪ Overcome societal norms/idioms ▪ Representation
22. Notes and documentation ▪ Take-home guides ▪ Jupyter Notebooks ▪ Project files
23. Bye! I’m friendly and love to chat! You can find me at the conference or online @kennethlove If you’d like to teach: • Meetups and bootcamps • Treehouse, Udacity, Codecademy, Code School, Pluralsite, etc • Django Girls • Corporate training
24. Credits Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free: ▪ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival ▪ Photograph by Treehouse