If you have progressed as a ringer so that you feel confident in some methods and rarely make mistakes, then you might want to volunteer as a helper either at teaching sessions in your tower or at a course rung locally. If your bell control and ringing style are good, then you could help to teach somebody how to ring a bell.

Your Tower Captain will be the first person to approach to ask if you can help with a teaching session. A reliable ringer in anything from rounds to methods is an asset at a learning practice, as it will give stability to the ringing. As your confidence increases you may be asked to take somebody aside to explain something or to stand behind a learner.

Providing you have a good level of bell control and are sufficiently confident to take control of a bell from someone else, then a teacher may want to enlist your help in standing with a learner who is at the bell handling stage.  This will be an opportunity to look for and correct handling faults.

If you enjoy helping other ringers, you could volunteer to be a helper on a residential weekend course, a local ringing society course, or for some special practices.

To gain confidence in teaching bell-handling it is very helpful to have some tuition, such as that provided by ART Training Scheme.

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