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Started by woodsteach, March 03, 2013, 09:26:13 PM

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woodsteach

As my name might imply, I am a teacher of woodworking!  High school woodworking that is.  My principal said we need to spend some grant money and the catch is it has to be spent professional development.  It can't be spent on machinery.
I'm sick of going to teaching workshops that have little to do with my area.  So I'd like to find some sort of school or program that will help further develop/refine my skills.   Any suggestions?  Any area I'm interested in them all, shaker, chairs, wood turning, something that I can then bring back to my students and kick them up a notch.
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Jay C. White Cloud

Hello Might,

If you really want to bring something unique back to your students, and learn something really wonderful, try these (as a timber wright and teacher I'm biased)  ;D  these could change your life:

http://www.hanok.co.kr/

http://www.hanokschool.net/bbs/view.php?id=abouthanok2&no=20

http://www.takumijuku.com/

http://www.logandtimberschool.com/school.php

Here are some additional suggestions:

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/660
this one will offer things that maybe the last or their kind from this school.

http://wnwoodworkingschool.com/

http://www.woodwrightschool.com/

http://www.ptwoodschool.com/Home.html

Keep us up to speed with what you decide on.  If you need help with using translation programs, let me know and I will assist you the best I can.

Regards,

jay
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Tree Feller

I would look into the North Bennet Street School in Boston. They have training programs from three days to two years in duration in various aspects of woodworking/carpentry.
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woodsteach

Thanks for the links, I'll check them out some more.  The framing courses look great but I'll have to figure out how to incorporate them.  Will probably have to stick to developing my furniture making skills.

Paul
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Busy Beaver Lumber

how about chainsaw carving school. Now that is different
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Dave Shepard

Heartwood School offers many different workshops from timber framing to green wood building. There are cabintmaking courses and even one on building a pole lathe. I've taken many of their courses, and even took a course with two North Bennett Street School instructors doing exactly what you want to do. ;)

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shinnlinger

Being a shop teacher myself, I have found the state guilds on woodworking and local woodworking clubs have been an awful convenient way to step out of the classroom and make some stuff of my own.

These folks http://www.woodschool.org have always interested me as well depending on how much $ you can spend on travel.  Midcoast Maine is a nice place to be in the summer!!!!
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