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Camp Crafts Guide
| 13 - Time Balance in Teaching a Skill |
| No one can
learn a skill except by doing it |
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Most of your teaching time must be
SPENT IN PRACTICE! |
| The proper time balance is: |
| EXPLANATION (hearing) |
10% of the time |
| DEMONSTRATION (seeing) |
25% of the time |
| PRACTICE (doing) |
65% of the time |
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- Be able to perform the skill well yourself.
- Review your own experience in learning it, and work out a series of steps
for teaching the skill.
- Keep the instruction personal by working with an individual or small
group, and letting them teach others.
- Size up your audience, both as to abilities and personality traits
which affect their learning the skill; appeal to visual, auditory, and feeling levels.
- If the learner is not familiar with the skill, go slowly. Insist on
accuracy first, then speed (if speed is a factor).
- Do not interfere with the learners trying to do it on their own,
unless they bog down or go off on the wrong track.
- Let them make mistakes, if this will help them learn, but do point
out mistakes tactfully.
- Never make corrections sarcastically or for the benefit of any
onlookers.
- Encourage the learners by making remarks on their progress,
pointing out the completion of each step and remarking on the steps they have done well.
- Urge them to practice and to teach someone else.
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