I am totally and utterly shocked by a teacher cutting off YOUR bobbins! I
cannot envisage any circumstance when a professional teacher would do this.
A teacher would be encouraging and positive.
This brings me to what may be a controversial point of view!
I am a teacher first and foremost and a bobbin lace maker/teacher second. I
was fully trained as a primary school teacher and taught for many years. I
then wanted to teach Adult Education so I went on a further course which
built on my skills as a teacher.
There are many excellent lace makers who are good teachers, but there are
also many who are NOT teachers. They do not have the teaching skills to
impart their specialist knowledge correctly. Everyone learns in a different
way and a fully qualified teacher can draw on their experience to find the
right approach for the lace maker in front of them.
Instructors instruct whereas teachers teach!
Jan Tregidgo
www.tregidgo.com/jan
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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:32:58 -0600
From: Bertrans1 <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [lace] contributing
I was not going to say anything until your comments Lorelei. I liked your
comments.
When I met my dear friend for the first time (we had been communicating via
e-mail only as she lives in the UK) I showed her a bookmark I had made. I
was so proud of the fact I could finish something. She said it was
wonderful, however I could tell she was holding back. When I convinced her I
wanted her honest opinion. She responded with "you do spiders differently
here in America!" I asked her t show me how she does them and wonder of
wonders I could actually see the spider legs!!
Then I took my first ever class and had completely the opposite reaction
from the instructor I was paying to teach me. She looked at what I was doing
& picked up my scissors & cut all the bobbins off my pillow. Then she said I
needed to learn the the basic stitches and walked away. That ended my
efforts to learn that type lace and my desire to never take a courts with
that teacher again.
After that I was hesitant to take another class until I took a class with
Sylvie Nugyen. Talk about patience. She was fantastic and sold me on Russian
tape lace. This year at the Convention I took a course with Lia Baumeister.
I must admit I need way more lessons than we re programmed for this class.
At one point when I was really struggling I told her the problem is I can't
read Swedish. She laughed & said "but this is a diagram not words!" Then
she proceeded to color code the diagram so I could better follow what needed
to be done. I actually finished a small piece of lace!! More importantly
she took the time to work with me & didn't CUT my threads!! Lia's class on
Russian tape lace was fantastic. She started me on a fan and spent time
with me to do leaves which I am struggling with. So, bottom line I have had
three fantastic teachers and one very poor example of a teacher plus tons of
help from Arachne.
Robin, please don't give up & if you follow the advise from those who have
responded you will have the courage to tell those who downgrade you to jump
in the lake. My friend in the UK is constantly telling me to not be so
critical of my work and is always encouraging as have been Sylvie & Lia.
Please remember you can always chalk up the bad experience to ignorance on
the other person's part. For every bad experience there are tons of really
good ones as others have said in their comments.
Sallie in WY
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