17 Aug
2014
17 Aug
'14
1 p.m.
Have kids teach their specialty and rotate...
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On Aug 17, 2014 12:51 PM, "Eric Brozell" <brozells@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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
>
>
> On 8/15/14 10:16 AM, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:
>
> There are some good resources on the wiki, here:
>
> http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Maintenance_Class_Handouts
>
> And here:
>
> http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Community_Cycles_Youth_Earn-A-Bike_Curriculum
>
> 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 completely outdated and participant numbers are increasing so we need a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.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Dominik
>>
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