Resources for instruction

Community Learning Partnership is looking to recruit flexible and hard-working sessional cookery teachers and teaching assistants, with experience in delivering to adults or children and young people.CLP uses a holistic inter-generational approach to deliver innovative family learning programmes to families in a variety of schools and community venues across Hertfordshire.

Here is a link to the Discover Young Hackney programme of events which includes loads of workshops and taster sessions. Sadly I'm too old to get involved but please pass on to those lucky enough to fit in the age groups (10 to 20yrs as far as I can work out).

Interesting results of this week's Teaching Expertise poll.

Masterclasses at The Kitchen:

Knife Skills:

* Monday 16th February, 7pm - FULL
* Monday 16th March, 7pm

The most important element of creating any meal is basic knife skills. The Japanese Knife Company will teach you how to keep your knives razor sharp and learn how to slice and dice like a Michelin Star Chef. You will then create a delicious meal with your new found skills - £55

Canapes:

* Monday 26th January, 7pm

Masterclass aims to offer young people (age 17-30) exceptional creative opportunities and experiences with leaders of the theatre industry. A year-round programme of talks, workshops, special projects and career advice is intended to give people insight into all aspects of theatre from writing and directing to acting and producing. Masterclass strives to provide all the events for free, so that people of all abilities, status and background can be inspired by and learn from masters of the craft.

The homepages of the Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men...

The Team performs regularly across sussex and sometimes further afield during the summer.

We practice on Wednesday evenings near Henfield, lifts available from most areas - get in touch if you'd like to try it!

'Bagman' - Richard 01273 492 386 e-mail: bagman@crmm.org.uk
'Squire' - Keith 07770 643 713 e-mail: k.g.willis@tinyworld.co.uk

My friend Nick worked on this course with a friend of his who has sadly passed away, but he's made it available now for free in his memory. It includes a PDF guide plus two hours of supporting audio comprising seven easy lessons in how to identify what you know and competently teach it.

As Nick says, "we would love you to have access to Rick’s material free of charge – with just one condition – please use the material to teach what you have to share."

Might be of interest to all those "long-time learners, first-time teachers" out there?

This week a couple of friends of mine asked me to teach them how the web works, and the basics of what they'd need to know to commission their own websites. So I found myself in the strange position of being their teacher for the evening. I think I did okay, so here's what I did, and what I learnt:

1. I asked them what they wanted to learn. (Easy to miss this one.) They basically had enough questions to build a clear map of the lesson, and it meant I could use examples from their lives to illustrate my points.