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Preparing to Coach
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PREPARING TO COACH
These notes are for participating coaches and others wanting to learn and build skills on how to coach in the NorCal Youth Training program. Consider joining the coaching team and sharing our camaraderie. Coaches always learn the most. Try out the Youth Truning projects. Earn your "Coach" button, above!
COACHES HANDBOOK - HERE (revised 3/19/21)
- History and purpose of the youth program
- How to get started as a coach
- The classroom and class practices
- Teaching approach
- Note: help is available from other coaches
VIDEO OF COACHING A FIRST TIME TURNER - HERE
LEAD COACH CHECKLIST
Lead coaches rotate and are scheduled to plan and run each class.
ABOUT YOUTH TURNING
- “As the Wood Turns: Volunteers Teach Leo A. Palmiter and Elinor Lincoln Hickey Students the Art of Woodturning”
- NorCal Newsletter article from September 2013
- Woodturning Shop Equipment Inventory
- Ted Young's recollection of the founding of the Youth Training Program
COACHING REFERENCE MATERIAL
- Scales and Chords of Spindle Turning Video: Practice these basic skills to help you teach and turn with confidence.
- Class Safety Card AAW Lathe Safety Handout
- AAW Teaching Woodturning Basics Guide
- Coaching Pointers Teaching is a skill separate from turning. invest some time in learning this essential coaching ability.
- AAW Learning Outcomes For Beginning Turners A great checklist of specific skills for new turner and coach alike.
- Project Blanks and Kits Consider contributing good wood for this good purpose, and preparing the blanks as specified in the link.
- Tool Sharpening Guidelines
- Tool Sharpening Video A coaching success factor is to notice dull tools and sharpen them.
- Tool Box Inventory A list of the contents of the orange tool box at each lathe
- Setting Up a Turning Shop Students (and new coaches) sometimes want some guidance on what to get and what it costs to set up their own turning shop.
The school requires regularly attending coaches of students to have a criminal records check, a TB test and to submit a volunteer application. There may be a small expense which will be reimbursed. Print and complete the following forms. Instructions are included. We will try to maintain packets of blank forms in the classroom. You can get help from coaches who have gone through this slightly burdensome drill.
The following links are available to NorCal members only.
Sacramento Live Scan locations July 2018.pdf
Special Ed Volunteer Application_FINAL.docx*
*The two .docx forms will be downloaded to your download file or in your browser download area. Open them with your compatable word processor and print them.