M2 Day Course
M2F Day Course resources – PowerPoint packs and key documents
M2C Day Course resources – PowerPoint packs and key documents
Running your practice
Set band and personal goals – the why and how can be found under Teaching Tips
Prepare a ringing practice plan – currently being developed
Make your practices fun, challenging and varied – the teaching toolboxes (organised by LtR levels below) contain lots of ideas
Keep everyone interested and valued – recruitment and retention resources
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 2 and higher Levels
Learning the Ropes – Level 2
Domino cards for learning jargon
Learning the Ropes – Level 3
Teaching Plain Hunt in small steps
Ringing Jargon worksheet – plain hunt
Learning the Ropes – Level 4
Alternative approach to teaching Plain Bob Doubles
Learning the Ropes – Level 5
Learning the Ropes Plus
Ringing Practice Toolkit – CCCBR publication – lots of methods, all on one page
Methods to memorise methods – some interesting ideas about helping students learn methods
Teaching resources
The theory behind teaching and coaching
Pupil-centred teaching – how learning occurs
How people learn – styles of learning (VAK)
Ideas about running a better practice – group (or people) management
What can stress you students and how to help them – ringing stress
Recent developments in coaching theory
Teaching Tips
Do our ringers come ringing purely for the pleasure of the ringing itself? The likelihood is that most of them do not. You might think that it will depend on the standard of the ringing they are involved in but it is not that straightforward!
- Adapting your teaching to the needs of your ringer – What Type of Ringer Do You Teach?
- Understanding what motivates your ringers – Giving our ringers what they really want …
Goal setting has been shown to be one of the most important motivational tools a coach can use when developing the skills of a participant in an activity.
- The why – Get Going with Goals
- Goal setting – Get GROWing with Goals
- Types of goals for teaching ringers – Score from Successful Goals
Keeping your ringers ringing after they can handle a bell competently and safely is the key to retention
- Your new ringer – Keeping your ringers ringing
- And all of your band – Keep ALL your ringers ringing