[Trainer-Talk] Very frustrated in training a newbie on iPhone

[Gerardo Corripio]

I hardly post on here, but as mentiond to you guys before, I'm a tech 
instructor here in my area (though I haven't taken any formal classes on 
the subject, but I love technology, and because of my Educational 
Psychology major I'm confident this combo would be apt for this path); 
also it's important to work on whatever is available for us the blind 
here in Mexico! Anyway I'm starting with a 46-year-old newby to the 
iPhone, and got the questions of

Is there some sort of an established lesson plan for teaching the iphone 
I could follow? I taught him during our first meeting the basics of 
left&right flicks and double-tap gestures to interact with the phone 
screen, and left him homework to practice with; imagine to what degree 
that he was recommended use Siri for everything? I mean it amazes me how 
ignorant people are really!

When it comes times to teaching gestures, what's the best method for 
this? I tried hand over hand, but kind of felt weird (don't know if it's 
how we were seated or) so what's the best way to teach gestures? The 
sighted wife was there with us, thus she saw what I was doing, and she 
taught him, but it's not the same it feels like to me.

Lastly he's really ahving a hard time with the Pass code, and /or the 
Finger-print reader; I plan to deactivate these while he gets used to 
how it works.

So what would be the next steps? I plan to teach him next how to type on 
the keyboard, which I set up as Touch typing (where you look for the 
letter and lift up to type it)

Thanks for any tips you guys might have; it's getting very frustrating 
to be honest with this first experience!. But I'm the type never to give 
up. It makes me mad how ignorant people are: imagine the phone was used, 
and it was never formatted back to factory settings, thus today I plan 
to restore it and set it up as new. Thanks again for any tips/tricks. 
I'm liking teaching one on one, but as I mentioned it's getting frustrating!

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Gera
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