Teaching Course - Module 1 - Brancepeth, County Durham
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 are advised to bring refreshments and a packed lunch on the day, or make their own arrangements. Please note, the lunch break is limited to one hour, so if visiting a busy cafe, it may be worth pre-ordering meals so that they can be served promptly.
Event Details
| Event Start | Thu 21-Nov-2024 09:00 |
| Event End | Thu 21-Nov-2024 17:00 |
| Registration Closes(Cut-off) | Wed 06-Nov-2024 12:00 |
| Capacity | 12 |
| Registered | 10 |
| Available places | 2 |
| Event Fee | £30 per attendee + £5 local contribution for refreshments and church donation. |
| 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 Brandon's, Brancepeth, Co. Durham |
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Team
Christine Richardson
Tutor
Christine learned to ring in 1981 at Christ Church, North Shields and it’s safe to say she was smitten from the first lesson. “How hard can it be?”, quickly became a challenge to get it right. A house move to Sunderland soon meant that she was ringing at 5 practice nights per week, with weddings on Saturdays and service ringing on Sundays. A wide variety of methods (and bells) as well as a keen nucleus of local ringers who took her under their wing, gave her a good grounding in basic methods as well as the chance to progress to more complex methods when appropriate.