Hi Clay and all Spiders, I would like to add just one small point! Even knowing the subject inside-out is not always a good preparation for teaching said subject. My lace is not quite of the quality of other really marvellous lace-makers, but many of my students have said that they have come to me via other students, as they have been dissatisfied with previous tutors and classes. Sometimes, I feel that this could be that I can still remember the difficulties (and tears shed) with some techniques, and it helps me to find other ways to explain, so that the student can understand.
We had a Maths tutor at High School - he was a brilliant man - a forces intelligence chap, a Russian speaker, and all sorts of major qualifications - but because Maths came so easily to him, he could never understand our difficulties, and if questions were asked, tended to stand in front of the class, looking bewildered that anyone should be unable to understand! Some of us got through our Maths GCEs, but it was a major triumph when we did. Carol - in North Norfolk, UK 'Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day.' ----- Original Message ----- From: Clay Blackwell <clayblackw...@comcast.net> Subject: [lace] Teaching lacemaking Sent from my iPad > On Aug 22, 2014, at 3:14 PM, The Lace Bee <thelace...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Just because we have not been trained as teachers is not proof that we are not capable of being good teachers. There are several ways that a teacher/student relationship can be magical. If both teacher and student respond to the visual approach, they will get along! If they both function on an auditory level, then again, they get along! Then, there is the kinetic approach, which is essentially the hands-on learning. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
