GOALS OF THIS GUIDE
This guide is intended to help bonsai clubs cultivate skilled teachers for basic bonsai instruction. Our goal is to establish a program of standardized bonsai basics instruction, and to cultivate a set of well trained teachers who can successfully instill basic bonsai knowledge into the students.
This guide is also intended to complement the individual uniqueness of each bonsai artist as a teacher. For those teachers of an existing bonsai basics class or curriculum, please teach the way you feel is most effective for you. We would like you to consider our suggestions as a way to standardize these courses. All teachers have their own techniques of teaching and all clubs are unique. Thus, each club will require instruction according to its own make-up.
A bibliography of existing teaching materials, including books, magazines, and videos is included. Many of these well regarded reference materials cover a great deal of information including the basic bonsai styles, the variety of tools, pots, and stands. This guide will be fairly brief; it is not intended as a comprehensive teacher's manual. One of the goals of this guide is to simplify as much as possible the instruction of basic bonsai.

The BCI Bonsai Teacher's Guide may be downloaded by clicking here. (Adobe Acrobat required.)