Hi Jenny and CLay
Teaching is teaching, whatever the subject. Some people do not have time to
work on their lace during the week and we do not know their commitments. By
all means encourage lacemaking between classes, in the early stages some do
not have the confidence to work on their own. I once had a class of 14 new
lacemakers. By the end of four months one was tailing behind and feeling
despondent because she was slow and as time went on she did not speed up
but - a couple of years later she came first in her section at the Essex
Handicrafts Exhibition, and it was a big class. Some lacemakers take longer
to learn than others, but time is not of the essence and learning slowly
does not mean the student is less able. If you feel the slower lacemaker is
comparing herself unfavourable with the other one try moving her to a
different type of lace. I usually start by teaching torchon, but there are
some who find it particularly difficult, in which case I switch to
Bedfordshire, starting with small motifs of the coaster size. It works.
Happy lacemaking and teaching
Alex
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From: Clay Blackwell
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 12:15 AM
To: Jenny Brandis
Cc: Alex Stillwell ; The Lacebee
Subject: Re: [lace] teaching
Hmmm... Replying to a few.... I am teaching my first (2) students, and
they are bright and eager. One has more troubles than the other. Today,
they both had more problems than usual, and both confessed that they had not
put a hand to the pillow since last class. My advice was that they should
go home, make more lace if time permits, and then sleep on it. But I
insisted that they should go back to their pillow tomorrow, and the lesson
learned would be there.
I don't want to be hard-core, demanding "X" number of hours of work each
week, but I have told them that the sooner they use information learned each
week, the better it will serve them.
Have you any other good suggestions?
Thanks!
Clay
Clay Blackwell
Lynchburg, VA, USA
Sent from my iPad
On Apr 29, 2015, at 6:54 PM, Jenny Brandis <je...@brandis.com.au> wrote:
If I have answered the same question over five times then the problem is
that I have not answered in a way that that particular student can
understand, not that she has not tried to understand.
Keeping on asking means that she wants to understand and I have to keep on
looking for another way to give her the answer. We get there in the end.
This is so true, I have found when I am teaching, (computer usage or a
hand
craft) that your statements hold true as well.
Regards
Jenny Brandis
Brookdale, Western Australia
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