Teaching Course - Module 1 - Rosscarbery Cathedral, County Cork
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.
This course is being run for those attending the West Cork Ringing Festival and is protected by a PIN so that festival attendees have priority booking. If you are going to the festival and interested in attending, please contact the course organiser, Diane Pitcher.
Event Details
| Event Start | Fri 31-Jan-2025 09:00 |
| Event End | Fri 31-Jan-2025 17:00 |
| Registration Closes(Cut-off) | Thu 16-Jan-2025 12:00 |
| Capacity | 6 |
| Registered | 0 |
| Available places | 6 |
| Event Fee | £30 per attendee |
| 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 Fachtna's Cathedral, Rosscarbery, County Cork, Eire |
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Team
Claire Penny
'I learned to handle a bell as a teenager because I was intrigued, and it was the best ‘after-school’ club on offer. College, and then working in Tennessee where, at the time, they had no bells meant a 5-year hiatus from ringing. It wasn’t until I mentioned in passing at a University evening meeting that I had done some ringing that half an hour later I found myself at a practice night not far from York, and by the end of the evening had remembered how to plain hunt – sort of. My first foray into serious teaching was in 1999 when I became heavily involved in teaching two brand new bands in time to ‘Ring in the Millennium’, and teaching has really been my focus ever since. I find it both challenging and rewarding, and as much a learning experience for me as it is for the person I am teaching. I went on one of the first M1 and then M2 courses at Kineton and became an accredited member of ART in 2013'.
Rebecca Odames
I learned to ring at the age 42 after my sister started ringing a few years earlier at her local tower in The Cotswolds. At first I couldn’t understand why we had to find out when the local churches were ringing during family holidays, but since I started ringing, we are now finally on the same page! I was quite a quick learner when it came to bell handing, but was advised on a course a few months later that my handling wasn’t right and I needed to count my place and not just learn the numbers. It was a breakthrough moment when it all became clear and I then turned my attention to other new ringers who had been in the same situation as me just a few months before.
Someone mentioned ART to me a few years later and I went on a Module 1 course in 2018. It provided me with all the tools to start teaching and I was keen to get started straight away. I taught my first learner in 2019 and soon after, covid struck. Not to be deterred, I started again in 2022 with two new ringers and when more people wanted to learn, I encouraged other experienced ringers at my tower to attend a Module 1 course. Ringers from surrounding towers have also attended the course and we now have an active group of teachers and new ringers within a few miles of each other. Being a mentor has provided me with further experience and I find that every new ringer, has something new to teach me too. Having come to ringing later in life, I find it easy to relate to new ringers struggles. Seeing them succeed has been a great achievement.
I am an Operations Coordinator for a large high street retailer and in my spare time I like exploring areas of historical interest and natural beauty in my spare time. I am also a keen hill and mountain walker.
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.