·
What is the learner’s long term goal?
·
What is the learner’s short term goal?· What did the learner do last time?
·
How well did the learner do last time?
In the early stages of ringing quite often the long term
goal isn’t applicable, after all if you are handling the next goal is rounds,
planning further ahead might be a bit excessive. But if you are ringing plain
hunt, the longer term goal could be trebling to a method.
The questions really need to be answered in reverse order,
how well did they do last time?
·
Got it! (Time to move on; do the short and long
term goals need to be changed?)
·
Almost there (Some more of the same until they
get it)
·
Still a little way off (What is it that they are
not getting, are there intermediary steps that can be brought in?)
·
Nowhere near (Is what they did last time
appropriate? are there intermediary steps that can be brought in? Has the exercise
been explained to them in a way they understand?)
Then based on how well they did you can then decide what
they should be doing this time. Some people can remember what people did and
how well they did easily and so they are very easily able to plan for the next
thing for others this is quite difficult. Do not be afraid of making notes
about what people are doing and where they are supposed to be going, that way
you can easily see what is being done and alert you if someone has been at “Almost
there” for the same task for the last 6 weeks; maybe that is a sign that there
is something fundamental about the task which they are just not able to grasp.
The other thing to consider is making sure that the learner
is not bored at doing the same thing each time. It might be possible for them
to learn the same skill in another way, for instance using Mexican waves to
help with moving their bell into the right place instead of just called
changes.
No comments:
Post a Comment