Zwiefel
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Looking through your handout, you are covering a lot of ground. Since most of the students -- if not all -- are really, really hoping for a lot of hands-on knife skills training, I would gloss over the knife types, etc., spend a few minutes talking about basic grips and safety, and the lions share of the time on the demonstrations/ doing part of things. Like a couple others here, I attended a SLT knife-skills class, and frankly you can burn 1/2 hour just on dicing an onion or carrot because there will be a couple people in there who really need you to hold their hand.
The handout will go a long way towards providing them with additional knife information, so you will still be educating them about all things knife-related, just not necessarily during the class.
Thanks Wildboar, this is kinda what I was planning on doing...and I provide a way for students to contact me after the class if they want more info on anything.
I'm really quite unclear on how much I can cover in two hours both in terms of lecture type info, and in terms of the hands-on bit. Going to try to err on the side of providing too much time for hands-on though.
This is really good feedback guys, appreciate it.