Thread: Teaching wood work classes at school.

Hi, I am the Man arts teacher at Woodford P-10. If I can help, let me know. Just a big hint, as the Crown is no longer covering schools for accident insurance, ensure that all your risk assessments are up to date and correct. Regards Damien.

Thanks goodwoody, I am about to tackle the risk assessment process as daunting as it seems. I'm not a qualified teacher but apparently being an independent school and a parent of a student i dont have to be one. I'm guessing a blue card would be handy though?

I've got a great book about Wood working with children. It has them doing quite complicated stuff to

Here it is on Amizon.

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Woodworking-Your-Kids-Over-Projects/dp/0942391616]Amazon.com: Woodworking with Your Kids: Over 30 Projects for All Ages (9780942391619): Richard Starr: Books[/ame]

Originally Posted by NaturalEdge

Thanks goodwoody, I am about to tackle the risk assessment process as daunting as it seems. I'm not a qualified teacher but apparently being an independent school and a parent of a student i dont have to be one. I'm guessing a blue card would be handy though?

All teachers regardless of where they teach in Queensland either state or independent schools must be a registered teacher. It is illegal to teach without teacher registration.
If you teach at this school you will need to have at the very least a registered teacher in the room at all times to aviod legal action against you and the school.

SB

Thanks for the link Anne-Marie, I will be sure to check it out.

Thanks and very valid point you make SB, however, I feel I should clarify my intentions.
This wont be a 'recognised' course, it is purely for the students appreciation in the field. The school is quite small at the moment with only 40 students from prep -10. Being such a small school, the teacher from that year class would be attending also. It wont be a paid position and the parents would sign some kind of permission slip that the school would put together. I trust the school wont be putting themselves in any kind of 'sticky situation'.

My intention for the thread is to hopefully gain some more ideas on the practical/hands on aspects of a teaching a woodwork class. Thanks again to all