Teaching Course - Module 1 - Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney, NSW
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.
Morning and afternoon tea will be supplied, lunch on the day will be at a local cafe (pre-booked) at your own expense. For any questions, please contact Kathi Downs the course tutor directly via email: kmdowns01@gmail.com
Event Details
| Event Start | Sat 04-May-2024 08:30 |
| Event End | Sat 04-May-2024 17:00 |
| Registration Closes(Cut-off) | Fri 03-May-2024 |
| Capacity | 9 |
| Registered | 7 |
| Available places | 2 |
| 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 |
| Event Access | This course is free for members of ANZAB. Non-members are welcome and will incur a fee of around $40. Payment details will be sent when your place in the course is confirmed. Lunch on the day will be at a local cafe (pre-booked) at your own expense. For any questions, please contact Kathy Downs directly: kmdowns01@gmail.com |
| Location | Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney, Australia |
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Team
Kathi Downs
Tutor
Kathi learnt to ring as an adult in the early 1990s at Christ Church St Laurence in Sydney, Australia. She went on to become a member of the St Mary’s Basilica Society of Bellringers in Sydney and over time, held the roles of Secretary, Ringing Master, Vice Captain, Tower Captain and Treasurer of the St Mary’s Society. Kathi has also acted as Ringing Master at St Paul’s Burwood and St James’ Queens Square. She has been actively involved as a helper and session leader at the annual Sydney Ringing School for many years, holding the roles of Secretary, Newsletter Editor, and Education & Training Officer in the local branch of ANZAB. In her first stint as Education & Training Officer, Kathi was responsible for the E&T needs of 11 towers across NSW, with travelling distances of almost 500 km north, 500 km south and almost 600 km south-west of Sydney! A great way to see the country and meet all the regional ringers. Currently she lives in the Blue Mountains where I am using Learning the Ropes to teach a new local band from scratch at St Hilda’s Katoomba and ringing as a member of the Lithgow Bellringers. Kathis is now Education & Training Officer (West) with a much more reasonable travel range of only 160 km!