Teaching Course - Module 2F - Twyford, Berkshire
About this course:
This course shows new and experienced teachers how to support their students and develop the necessary foundation skills for good ringing and then move forward to ringing changes.
You will learn through a mixture of practical and classroom sessions
- Foundation skills
- Call Changes
- Kaleidoscope ringing
- Standing behind
- Plain Hunting
The practical exercises approach learning in small structured steps and are delivered in a way that is entertaining for the new ringer whilst the theory sessions cover foundation skills, teaching theory, running practices, team building and how to motivate and retain your ringers.
Module 2F practical sessions have a greater focus on the foundation skills – how to teach call changes, an exploration of kaleidoscope ringing, and different ways to introduce covering and Plain Hunt.
Theory sessions include the development of coaching skills.
Delegates are advised to bring along a packed lunch.
This course is now open for general bookings.
Event Details
| Event Start | Sat 08-Oct-2022 09:30 |
| Event End | Sat 08-Oct-2022 16:45 |
| Registration Closes(Cut-off) | Sat 08-Oct-2022 12:00 |
| Capacity | 12 |
| Registered | 12 |
| Available places | 0 |
| Waiting List | 2 |
| Event Fee | £25 per attendee + £5 local costs for refreshments |
| Event Prerequisites | The ability to ring plain hunt doubles on any bell, raise and lower in peal and demonstrate confident bell control whilst ringing. |
| Location | St Mary, Twyford, Berkshire |
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Team
Clare McArdle
Tutor
Clare learned to ring, aged 12, in the 1970s at Harborne in Birmingham and has rung there ever since. From a young age she began helping with teaching there, but it wasn’t until much later, when she became Tower Captain at Harborne, that she really developed her teaching skills.
A varied career began with 15 years making stained glass windows, followed by 19 years as a front-line paramedic with West Midlands Ambulance Service. Clare has just started a new venture, becoming a freelance First Aid Instructor.
In 2013 Clare came up with the crazy idea of a bell ringing school to centralise training in Birmingham and spread the load and responsibility of teaching, thereby supporting towers without teachers and distributing new ringers to towers within the St Martin’s Guild. Having presented the idea, she was surprised, but extremely grateful, that it was immediately supported by key figures in the Guild and thus the Birmingham School of Bell Ringing was born.
Involvement with ART came about in 2012, when one of the ringers at Harborne asked Clare to mentor her through Module 1 of the teaching course. Having attended the course and mentored several teachers Clare became an ART Assessor and subsequently, in 2017, a Tutor for ART.