Teaching Course - Module 1 - Chapel Allerton, Yorkshire
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.
Delegates may wish to bring a packed lunch on the day, or make their own arrangements. Please note, the lunch break is limited to one hour.
Hot drinks, squash and biscuits will be available throughout the day (donations welcome).
Event Details
| Event Start | Sat 21-Jun-2025 09:00 |
| Event End | Sat 21-Jun-2025 17:00 |
| Registration Closes(Cut-off) | Fri 06-Jun-2025 12:00 |
| Capacity | 12 |
| Registered | 3 |
| Available places | 9 |
| Event Fee | £30 per attendee + local donations to cover the cost of refreshments. |
| 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 | St Matthew, Chapel Allerton, West Yorkshire |
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Team
Neil Donovan
Tutor
Neil is retired and living in Beverley, where he rings on the magnificent 12 at St Mary’s Church.
Learnt to ring at Rotherham in late 1959. His tutor was Norman Chaddock, one of the founder members of the CCCBR Education Committee. Another influence on his early ringing was Wilfrid F Moreton, also a member of the CCCBR Education Committee at that time and founder of the Hereford Ringing Course.
Neil is a a Vice-President of the Yorkshire Association and former President. Amongst other offices in the Association, he has been involved with ringing education in Yorkshire for over 30 years. Organising and tutoring on many day courses and a residential course which ran for 27 years.
Neil has been a group leader and tutor at the Hereford Course since the mid-eighties. He much prefers to be with the beginner groups, where he finds it a great pleasure to helping students to take their first steps in plain hunting and beyond.