Teaching Course - Module 1 - St Mary's, Kirtlington, Oxfordshire
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.
Lunch will be available locally, any local costs for this and tower donation should be paid directly to the local course organiser.
Event Details
| Event Start | Sat 08-Feb-2025 09:30 |
| Event End | Sat 08-Feb-2025 17:00 |
| Registration Closes(Cut-off) | Fri 24-Jan-2025 12:00 |
| Capacity | 12 |
| Registered | 4 |
| Available places | 8 |
| Event Fee | £30 per attendee + £25 local costs for church donation and lunch, £20 without 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 | St Mary the Virgin, Kirtlington, Oxfordshire |
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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.