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when someone is inspired to teach Cromer
culture what path do you recommend can
you outline the succession of events
please what steps are required in order
for someone to move through training and
on to becoming a registered permaculture
teacher well once you get your desired
permaculture design certificate course
finished and you've got your certificate
you're entitled to teach anybody can
teach who's completed a permaculture
design certificate course but then I
think what you're asking why it is
should you teach there's no such thing
as a registered teacher really we do
register some teachers around the
curricula that they present because we
want to maintain a standard but most
people are itinerant teachers I always
thought that's all I was ever gonna be
an itinerant teacher and so once I felt
confident I started teaching but I
didn't teach and still someone asked me
to teach and it was the same my
consultancy a lot of people asked me to
consult they'd see the gardens I put in
they'd see my garden my farm my area
wasn't necessary of farm small acreage
but it would have worked from an urban
garden people said well can you consult
for me can you help me get going like
this and they may ask you to present on
that like in other words do a talk and
after a few talks and you gain your
confidence so how you present to people
and you learn your delivery techniques
as a teacher they may well ask you would
you come and teach for us would you come
and teach an introduction course and if
you're successful at that then obviously
the the big request is would you
teachers a permaculture design
certificate course the full course and
you're completely entitled to once
you've done this course now some people
like to teach with other teachers and
you might want to partner up with
another teacher and be the assistant
teacher and sit in on a course and and
and study the way a good teacher teaches
and produces active students that they
selves to become teachers so this is
what it's all about I asked bill once
how do I know well I'm a good teacher
bill am I gonna start teaching which I
intended to I was being requested to
teach peat permaculture designs to it
courses and Bill simply said if you're a
good teacher you produce very active
students who go out and get involved in
permaculture and permaculture becomes a
large part of their life if not their
whole life but also within 350 to 400
students you produce a teacher now it
takes quite a while as a new teacher of
permaculture designs to it courses to
achieve 350 or 400 students that may
take a few years but within that period
you should have produced somebody who
they themselves start to teach and
eventually become a permaculture design
satiric course teacher themselves you
should encourage your students to do
this and I encourage you to become
teachers I I hope most of you if not all
of you I'll become a better teacher than
I am and a better designer than me and a
better consultant than I am and a better
aid worker because that's what we should
hope for that's what we should encourage
as teachers so this systems self
replicates it produces its own teachers
it breeds its own teachers and that way
we can go on indefinitely improving the
system and extending the system and
helping more people because the only
test you have of your students only
tests that you have are your students
should I say the only test you have as a
teacher is what your students achieve
and if they go beyond your own
achievements that's the ultimate test
they go on to also create an established
Institute that our Institutes of
permaculture education
you