M1 Day Course
Day Course resources – PowerPoint packs and key documents
Preparing to teach bell handling
Find someone to teach – recruitment and retention resources
Silencing a bell – using a motorcycle tyre, an inner tube or rope
Teaching bell handling
Prepare a lesson plan – lesson planning sheets
Determine your ringer’s learning style – learning styles quiz
Teaching to handle a bell – explained with supporting videos and download
Teaching to raise and lower a bell – explained with supporting videos and download
Solving common handling problems – problems with associated remedial exercises
Learning the Ropes
Add your ringer to Learning the Ropes – add your ringer
Direct your ringers to LtR ringer’s resources – see what your ringers have access to
For the tower – Learning the Ropes progress wall charts
The teaching syllabus – from Learning the Ropes Level 1 to 5
Assessing your ringer for their LtR Level 1
Teaching Tips
Combining strokes – putting both strokes together
Giving feedback – mind your language!
How a ringer’s learning styles changes your teaching style – IDEAS for teaching handling
Handling teaching – how long do I go on working on improving my learner’s handling style?
Use of language whilst teaching – catch, pull and hold on!
Improving retention and extending performance – from participation to performance
Continuously improving your teaching – engage in some reflective practice
A balanced ringing style – which hand is doing most of the work?
Are we giving our ringers what they really, really want?
Resources you can use with your ringer
Video showing all the parts of the bell whilst they are in use – up into the bell chamber
LtR Level 1 resources – videos, diagrams, quizzes and games
The theory behind teaching and coaching
Pupil-centred teaching – how learning occurs
How people learn – styles of learning (VAK)
Learning a skill – the ‘sense’ in learning to ring
Learning a skill – motor learning (originally published in The Ringing World)
Improving retention – recent developments in coaching theory
Giving feedback – positive communication (video)
Adjusting your teaching to the ringer
Children and adults learn differently
Asperger’s Syndrome – read about Andrew’s ringing journey
Safeguarding
Good Practice Guidance
H&S / Safeguarding – Recruitment – Simulators – Youth