Add advice for people preparing for the training?

[tobyhodges]

How could the content be improved?

We got an enquiry about the training, which included a question about how teams can best prepare to join part 1. Pasting here my response, and wondering whether we should collect advice like this somewhere e.g. in the CLDT event website template?

One of the biggest dangers, for teams embarking on a new lesson development project, is that members set out with a different understanding of the target audience and the scope of their new curriculum. We will facilitate activities and discussions to help you align on these things with your collaborators during part 1, but I recommend you spend some time beforehand discussing as a group and making sure that you share a vision of who you are writing for and what you hope to teach them.

Another section of part 1 discusses lesson narrative and example data, and we often find when we move on that trainees would have liked to devote more time to that discussion. So another thing you could do to prepare would be to think about some places where you might find a good example data set that will work for your audience/allow you to demonstrate the most important concepts you want to teach them, etc. Keep in mind our recommendation that you use data in the public domain (i.e. CC0 licensed).

Which part of the content does your suggestion apply to?

https://github.com/carpentries/training-template perhaps?