That is good work, you are working hard to have a well rounded education program. If you would like kids to research advanced tips on procedures, give them my E mail and I will melt their minds
I was going for sense of accomplishment (mastery), asking for help when needed, some cooperation, coordination, planning, finding gaps in knowledge and how to cope, applying creativity and realizing not everyone knows everything ( limits ) and active learning instead of lecture type plus lab...
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Brilliant in so many ways, Youth learning new skills with their hands, then learning the communication skills to teach and present to a group. It takes great teacher skills to lift up youth to be great mentors.
Christopher Wallace
Holistic Cycles
140 Harrison St
Oak Park, IL. 60304
Have kids teach their specialty and rotate...
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We are right in the middle of starting up a youth workshop for ages 12-16 in Erie, Pa. We just ran our first 1 1/2 hour a week program for 5 weeks. There were 8 students and about 6 instructors that most of them had little bike repair experience. We of course learned much from this first offering. We had gone over the bikes some before we started and took care of the difficult problems. This still was not sufficient time. This was just a race to get everything done in our time frame. We are planning on cutting back to 4 weeks but more time per class starting in September. The Bikes Not Bombs video by Girls in Action was shown at the beginning and it was quite a hit. We presently have limited resources (tools). We have about 1 1/2 sets of tools.
In light of that we are going to try to have the volunteers specialize in their training. What does everybody think about having one brake person, a bottom bracket, a shifter/derailer, wheel and headset specialist. That way each person will have a handful of the proper tools to take care of each issue. I believe we will have less tool searching time, parts searching, more efficient repairs and better instruction.
I have been mostly lurking the collective but everyone here helped me to consider launching this effort, Eric
Full disclosure: i helped draft/teach the curriculum in the second link. It's also from 2008, so could probably use some updating. I found the workflow and tempo to work pretty well for even one teacher with 10-15 year old students, so long as the class size was no greater than 6.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Dominik Zylka <domzylka@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello People,
Our developing high school bike program in Melbourne is in need of a fantastic workbook for our students to utilise. Our resources are completely outdated and participant numbers are increasing so we need a resource that will keep our students developing and learning.
Contents we'd love:
- Workshop rules and procedures
- Worksheets on all the specific processes and anatomy's
- Activities
- Diagrams and explanations
- you get the idea.
We understand that these resources take a heap of time and effort to compile and we'd be so very grateful if someone was willing to help out by sharing theirs.