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The ancient Chinese martial arts are veiled in mystery.
Each school teaches its own unique approach to the experience of self defence.
Historically, the training methods and applications of the different schools were closely guarded.
The most secretive and inaccessible were the neijia schools.

Internal kung fu (neijia) employs taoist insights and principles.
The teachings are counter-intuitive, puzzling and cryptic.
They cannot be explained using words.
In order to understand, you must do.

This site contains all of the now defunct Teachers TV videos plus loads of useful resources from other UK education sites.

Some of our resources have been produced by ladder4learning while some have been produced elsewhere and we have provided a link to them.

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If you go down to the park this summer, you might get a big surprise - at least if it's Regents Park in London.

I've been teaching for 6 years now and getting busier every year...until October 2008.

As a knitting teacher, Sept-Dec is my busiest time of the year...classes book up up to six weeks in advance. But Oct 08 was like a ghost town for Knitting SOS. My years finances have averaged out pretty healthy due to a couple of big jobs last Spring, but I'm noticing that I can't fill classes as easily as I was 12 months ago.

Has anyone else found this and do they have any suggestions to inspire people to learn?

Interesting results of this week's Teaching Expertise poll.

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.