I was recently asked to provide a testimonial on why I am an instructor for Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry. Here it is:
Teaching in general, and at Software and Data Carpentry workshops in particular, gives me great pleasure and is one of the most personally rewarding activities I engage in. With Software Carpentry, I feel I belong to a community that shares many of the same values I have: openness, tolerance, a focus on quality in teaching to name a few. The instructor training program is the best pedagogical program I know of, and it is amazing to see how Software and Data Carpentry are building a community of educators that are fully grounded in the research on educational practices.
Being an instructor is my way of making a small, but hopefully significant, contribution to improving science, and thus the world.
This testimonial can also be found here.
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