{"id":8472,"date":"2018-05-28T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T09:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.europe.wordcamp.org\/?page_id=8472"},"modified":"2018-05-28T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T09:17:12","slug":"wceu-launches-call-for-teaching-assistants-tas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2018\/press\/wceu-launches-call-for-teaching-assistants-tas\/","title":{"rendered":"WCEU launches call for Teaching Assistants (TAs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Open call for TAs to support hosts during interactive workshops at WCEU<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Successful applicants will gain valuable experience and invite to volunteer social<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Call closes on Tuesday 22 May 2018<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WordCamp Europe is an annual conference for web developers, designers, bloggers, and anyone working with WordPress to join together for the biggest WordPress conference in Europe. For the 2018 edition, WordCamp Europe (WCEU) takes place on 14-16 June in Belgrade, Serbia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, WCEU introduced workshops into its schedule for the first time. Workshops offer attendees a dynamic and exciting environment to learn about topics ranging from content and branding to advanced development. The sessions have varying length between 1-3 hours for groups of up to 80 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the new format of workshops, WCEU has opened a call for Teaching Assistants (TAs) as an invitation for volunteers to support the workshop hosts leading the sessions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis year we introduced workshops as a way for attendees to be able to get a more hands-on learning experience. Workshops provide a more in-depth look at a topic, and are perfect for those who are interested in digging into one subject area,\u201d said Nevena Tomovic from the WordCamp Europe organising team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TAs will benefit from the first-hand experience of helping to facilitate a workshop, working alongside the best minds in the WordPress industry. The opportunity is perfect for those who aspire to run their own workshops, giving them insight into planning and executing a workshop. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nevena went on to say: \u201cTA\u2019s are necessary to help facilitate a workshop, and help individuals along the way. As a TA you get to share your knowledge with attendees, and help the workshop host deliver the best possible workshop. \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TAs will also be invited to attend the volunteer social and the speaker orientation, with a chance to network and build strong connections with their workshop hosts, as well as other speakers and experts working closely with WordPress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The personal requirements for TA applicants are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Knowledgeable in the workshop subject<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Willing to support participants that need extra help<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comfortable with communicating and working 1:1 with participants<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Available at the time of the workshop.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The workshops that are looking for TAs are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You, yes you, need to sketch, hosted by Joshua Wold<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On-Demand Dev with Docker and WordPress, hosted by Daniel Olson<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An Introduction to Unit Testing (for WordPress), hosted by Thorsten Frommen<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brand building (be it business or personal): theory, tools and best practices, hosted by Raffaella Isidori <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let&#8217;s Build A Gutenberg Block, hosted by Lara Schenck<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Developing for privacy and data protection, hosted by Heather Burns<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Content Planning, hosted by Yvette Sonneveld<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creating online Videos, hosted by Florian Gottschall<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gutenberg: Creating Blocks and Extending the Editor, hosted by Mat\u00edas Ventura<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Gutenberg) Block Development with React, hosted by Zac Gordon<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To sign up, visit the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdDcMVt0mVyTsORXHfufvmAz4W2A-ZSS_LTfK6kD6kKZ0DLnA\/viewform\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WCEU TA Application Form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and select the workshops you would like to apply to help with before the call closes on <\/span><b>Tuesday, May 22nd.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The WCEU team will confirm successful applicants by <\/span><b>Friday, June 1st.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open call for TAs to support hosts during interactive workshops at WCEU Successful applicants will gain valuable experience and invite to volunteer social Call closes on Tuesday 22 May 2018 WordCamp Europe is an annual conference for web developers, designers, bloggers, and anyone working with WordPress to join together for the biggest WordPress conference in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9336725,"featured_media":0,"parent":959,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8472","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8QI2W-2cE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9336725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8473,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8472\/revisions\/8473"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}