Teaching Braiding Classes

[electrathon]

Another thought I just had. You are talking about people coming to you, consider reversing this. If you are in a town and 10 people all travel to be near your class the cost of the class at least quadrooples by the time they are done paying for travel, lodging and food, plus the class. If you do the traveling it may be easier to have the class be cost efective and better attended. You could charge more (and make more). You might call Chan Geer and talk a little with him about how he does it. Also remember when someone comes from "out of town" they are an expert who knows stuff, when local you are just the local person who teaches.

[David8386]

I would also be interested in attending, yet another braiding newbie. From Amarillo

David

[rcsaddles]

Some good thoughts and ideas electrathon. I know Chan and I also know he travels quite a bit for teachiing. I happen to do the leatherwork part time so I don't have the time to travel and teach. I take the time to go to Sheriday because I live about three hours away and I use vacation time.

I figure into the cost of the class all material as well as my time. The classes coming up in Sheridan will be the 15th and 16th for just a very basic braiding class but if someone is more advanced I will also address that. I will do both round and flat braiding in a 6 hour class and I believe the cost is around $90.00 but not sure on that. I am also haveing people schedule time for one on one help on Friday the 17th of May. All this is done through the Leather Crafters and Saddlers Journal. www.leathercraftersjournal.com

Everyone has their own teaching and learning style so it is really hard to tell someone how to teach. Last year I had a person in a class that after 30 minutes got up and said, this just isn't working for me today. Thanks for your time. They left and that bothered me but they told me it was them not me. I felt a little better but still wondered about it.

[TexasLady]

I'm posting, two years 'later', because this Thread came up when I searched the words 'continuing education'.

I live in an area abundant in community colleges. I would like to teach a continuing education class in leatherworking. Braiding sounds good. I'll be contacting others on this Thread for suggestions. The colleges want a list of materials that the students must buy, what materials or tools the instructor will provide, and the curriculum. The college I talked to didn't pay much, but I'd still like to do it. I need to practice first myself.

[DoubleC]

A group I used to belong to on FB had classes on about anything people brought up and video taped them. The teacher met the students in an online conference room and charged 20.00 per person. I'd love to see LW.net get started doing something like this. After it was video taped, anyone who missed the class but still wanted the info could pay the fee and get the link to the video. Cheryl

[TexasLady]

That sounds like a great idea.

(Everybody please back up to the previous page and read DoubleC's post.)

Edited May 31, 2015 by TexasLady

[DoubleC]

Hi Texas Lady. If people want I can look into how to 'rent' a conference room online, start a business Paypal account for people to sign up for different classes, and see if the video's can be done by me as a participant while the teacher teaches. Then I could pass out the video to people who couldn't attend the class. I'm happy to look into it if people want me to. Cheryl