Teaching a Class
#21
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 2,255
I no longer teach hand applique because I want to concentrate on my own projects. But when I did, I experienced all the things you have all mentioned - late to class, no supplies, no experience, etc. Most people were absolutely great, and I really enjoyed getting to know them. But t stopped teaching when I encountered a person who kept interrupting me with questions. i could see the other people in the class shifting around in their chairs. After many interruptions, I had to be rather rude and ask the person to hold her questions for a while. But she said she had paid for the class and was entitled to ask whatever and whenever she needed, which was all the time!
#22
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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Mkotch what an entitled jerk you had to deal with. After seeing her put on her show I would have answered every question of hers with I don't know and kept on teaching . She would get the message or get up and leave. Her choice.
#24
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 9,782
Oh, me too!! How about all the others in class who also paid and want to learn not just listen to you ask your questions. Some people . . .
#26
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Delaware
Posts: 1,045
I’ve said almost all those things in a class I was teaching! But I said it sweetly. LOL You ladies are welcome in any class I teach. I think we would have a fun and lively class together. You had better hurry though because I am retiring from the shop at the end of the year.
#27
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: The Finger Lakes of upstate NY
Posts: 3,589
I no longer teach hand applique because I want to concentrate on my own projects. But when I did, I experienced all the things you have all mentioned - late to class, no supplies, no experience, etc. Most people were absolutely great, and I really enjoyed getting to know them. But t stopped teaching when I encountered a person who kept interrupting me with questions. i could see the other people in the class shifting around in their chairs. After many interruptions, I had to be rather rude and ask the person to hold her questions for a while. But she said she had paid for the class and was entitled to ask whatever and whenever she needed, which was all the time!
There was a point in my life when I thought I wanted to be a teacher. It ended up not being in the cards, and it's a good thing, too. I realize now that I absolutely do not have the patience for it, whether in a school or in a quilt shop.
#28
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Chula Vista CA
Posts: 7,403
i took a class in EPP a couple years ago. Even though I had been doing it for years mine just never seemed real happy with my results. And the instructor's work was absolutely gorgeous!!! So she's going around the class meeting people and she asks me why I took the class. Because I need to learn what she does so I can do better. I can not say enough how wonderful her work was. I was not able to replicate her knot - the lady sitting next to me tried to help, but it just didn't take. Still not up to the instructor's ability - but will keep working on it. There was a lot to learn that day even though I knew the basics.
#29
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 9,782
i took a class in EPP a couple years ago. Even though I had been doing it for years mine just never seemed real happy with my results. And the instructor's work was absolutely gorgeous!!! So she's going around the class meeting people and she asks me why I took the class. Because I need to learn what she does so I can do better. I can not say enough how wonderful her work was. I was not able to replicate her knot - the lady sitting next to me tried to help, but it just didn't take. Still not up to the instructor's ability - but will keep working on it. There was a lot to learn that day even though I knew the basics.
#30
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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I was not able to replicate her knot
What type of knot? The quilter's knot?
I had a wooden dowel about 18" long with a hole at one end and pointed at the other end. I use that to demo how to make the quilters knot in my class. LOL
What type of knot? The quilter's knot?
I had a wooden dowel about 18" long with a hole at one end and pointed at the other end. I use that to demo how to make the quilters knot in my class. LOL
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