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4 steps to effortless craft teaching
Teaching crafts can be effortless. It
all depends on what you teach and how you teach it.
When I first began in teaching I trawled the bookshops (pre internet)
on suitable teaching books. I knew enough about crafts to know
what I wanted to teach but at this stage I didn’t know anything about
teaching crafts and as a methodical thinker, I wanted facts:
inforamtion, from those who had gone before.
It made sense to me as a regular library user that someone must
have written a book on it, but no, none could be found.
So having finally taken myself through university and out there doing
it, I decided that others out there might be wanting the same
information.
It had always been a no-brainer to me. In order to teach well you
needed to
know …
1. Your subject
2. Your learners
3. Yourself
4. People skills
Although I'd like to take them one at a time,
you'll see they often overlap!.
1. Firstly, of course, you need to know your subject. If you plan
on teaching it you must know it and know how to enthuse others about
it. If you're a quiet individual who likes to beaver away in
solitude, then teaching I would suspect, wouldn't be on your list of
favourite occupations.
So there is some assumption that you are fairly gregarious and that you
like the human race. Keep asking yourself: Do I know my subject
sufficiently to be teaching/demonstrating at the level I have
chosen. And if in doubt, learn some more.
2. Knowing your learners is basic common sense. There is no point
is deciding to teach something that only you are interested in.
Ask any presenter about key issues of preparation and they will say
'Know thy audience'.
With teaching you can expect feedback - verbally, and if you've got the
level, pitch, subject wrong, chances are you'll find out pretty quickly!
3. Yourself. Have you heard the saying" I have found the
enemy, and he is me" by Socrates? When you're teaching you must
have an understanding of how you prefer to work.
If, as we said above that you prefer a quieter approach to your
subject, then perhaps you need to consider if that is the right
approach. Knowing your preferences, learning style, how you like
information presented, should tell you if you have any biases that need
to be looked into.
You can't afford to present an activity to suit your preferences.
It must suit most learning needs and encompass the 4 main personality
types (melancholic, sanguine, choleric and phlegmatic) as well as the 4
acknowledged learning styles (reflector, theorist, pragmatist and
activist).
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Geraldine Jozefiak is passionate about
crafts and their place in
education. Be part of raising standards in teaching and learning
by offering the best possible creative opportunities.
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