Teaching Course - Module 1, All Saints', Kings Langley, Herts
About this course:
Suitable for those who already teach bell handling and want to update their skills AND for those who have never taught anyone to handle a bell, Module 1 provides you with the skills and techniques necessary to take a ringer from their first lesson to having competent bell control.
You will learn through a mixture of practical and classroom sessions:
- How to teach a skill
- How to break down bell handling into easy stages that the new ringer can master
- About different learning types and how to adapt your teaching for them
- The benefits of intensive teaching
The practical sessions will give you plenty of time to practise your new skills in a safe environment. Working in pairs you will also have opportunity to hone your observation skills and get feedback on your feedback.
Event Details
| Event Start | Sat 06-Feb-2027 09:30 |
| Event End | Sat 06-Feb-2027 17:00 |
| Registration Closes(Cut-off) | Fri 22-Jan-2027 12:00 |
| Capacity | 12 |
| Registered | 5 |
| Available places | 7 |
| Event Fee | £35 per attendee + £20 local donation to include refreshments, church contribution and buffet lunch. |
| Event Prerequisites | You must be a bell-ringing teacher (or would-be teacher) aged 14 or over. You must have sufficiently good bell control to be able to inspire confidence in others and an ability to comfortably raise and lower a bell. We expect that you should easily be able to pass the Learning the Ropes Level 2 handling assessment. For more information, see bellringing.org/about-teaching/bell-handling/#GoodHandlingStyle |
| Location | All Saints', Kings Langley, Hertfordshire |
Team
Steve Vickars
Tutor
Steve’s active ringing career spans some ten years across five decades, with a 40 year break between first learning as a teenager in the ‘70s and return in 2015 when his local band re-formed.
Since then he has dedicated much of his time to learning method ringing, conducting and teaching handling, foundation and basic methods.
He attended ART M1, M2F and M2C courses in 2016, 2017 and 2018 respectively, became a full member of ART in 2018 and is Training Officer for the Bicester Branch of the ODG. He is also an ART assessor.
Steve runs two general practices per week, organises and runs monthly focussed skills practices and has led methods courses organised by the Oxford Guild. In 2022, Steve joined Susan Read in forming Oxon Ringing School and is Kirtlington Ringing Centre Lead.