Teaching Tips

How to teach a method

Before moving on to learning any method it is important that ringers have both the necessary foundation skills in place, and understand the theory of the method they are to ring. Learn what these are and how to teach them.

Teaching ringers to cover

Building the skills required to cover confidently and well with the goal of ringing a quarter peal on the tenor to a doubles method.

Teaching ringers to plain hunt

All the things that need to be covered in order to get your ringers confidently ringing Plain Hunt – theory, bell control, ropesight and place counting.

Introducing Plain Bob Doubles in easy stages

When learning Plain Bob Doubles as their first method, a ringer often finds that being able to recall the four leads of the plain course whilst ringing is too much. By using short learning methods to introduce the various different pieces of work in Plain Bob Doubles, the ringer does not have to be able to recall the whole forty changes of the plain course initially.

Introducing the bobs in Plain Bob Doubles

Splitting new skills into smaller bits allows the learner to tackle a new skill in bite-sizes chuncks. Here are two strategies to help your student learn the effect of a bot, both involving repeating selected works.