Seekers and Guides: How to Reach Any Student

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If you teach, you’ve seen it; the students who are doodling aimlessly on their worksheets, drooling on the table while they snore, or clowning disruptively and asking entirely off-topic questions.  In short, they’re bored.  You wonder why they would come to your class if they don’t really want to learn.  But studying the Craft is by definition an activity you undertake in your spare time, and they actually showed up, so why aren’t they paying attention? In my last column, I offered … [Read more...]

Seekers and Guides: When the Master is Ready, the Student Shall Appear

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Because we have no firm standards of training for Witches and Pagans, many of us struggle with the issue of becoming a teacher.  How do we know that we are ready?  How do we know that we aren’t being presumptuous? I’ll just start by saying that anyone who extends themselves as a leader, teacher or organizer in the Pagan community is going to get “hated on.”  It doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong; it just means that someone is threatened by you.  Consider the criticism … [Read more...]

Seekers and Guides: Finding a Teacher

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Seekers and Guides is a new column by Sable Aradia! Follow it via RSS or e-mail, or look for it on alternate Mondays. Merry meet!  As a Witch who spends a great deal of time and makes some of her living by teaching Wicca, I’ll be writing this column to offer advice, discuss controversies, and find solutions for both teachers and students of the Craft.  While my writing will primarily be from the Wiccan perspective because that is the path that I practice, much of it will overlap … [Read more...]