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Instructors (and everyone else)! Advice needed! pleez wit cheez?
hey yall!
i am about to starting teaching my own beginners and i was just wonder how you all split up your teaching material. i will have two class types, beginner drop in and beginner series. the drop in class will stay in lower to middle level beginner moves, transitions and floorwork, only 3-4 spins and will be open to drop in weekly and learn the new moves. beginner series will contain the same material as level one and will progress through all beginner level moves building week to week so that they can move into the intermediate series class. for the moves,i am using the PDC syllabus (we will use this to determine if students can move to the next level by testing in the same fashion as PDC) and veenas moves. my only concern is running out of material to teach in the drop in. at some point do i cycle back to point a and start again? im thinking that if a student is in drop in so long that we cycle back to the beginning then at that point, they should want to move to series and progress, but i could be wrong. i don’t want those who decide not to move “forward” to stop coming to class because we are learning the same things again.
any advice is appreciate, and sorry if i babbled, it 2am LOL
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My studio has all drop in classes so I definitely have experience with this. Sometimes I’ll have ladies in my beginner class that are nearly ready to test out (we call them “begintermediates” lol) and at the same time a girl that has only just completed her prerequisite pole foundations class. At that point I’m teaching one girl the wrist seat but the other just learning her first pole sit. I tend to organize my classes with move categories. So perches are one category, and I’ll teach anything ranging from your standard pole sit up to two handed scissor planks and wrist seats. Or maybe the category is ankle hooked spins. I’ve got ladies just learning fireman, and others doing combos like sunwheel to flirty fireman. This way the class moves along at the same pace, it’s just that I may have to teach more than one move per category depending on who I have in the class that day. It’s a bit of a juggling act but you get used to making quick decisions on what to teach in the moment. I hope that was some help!
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I teach based on modifications. Very similar to what Danielle is explaining. Basically- you adjust your teaching to an individual’s skill level. If one version of the move has been mastered one week, then you introduce the modifications until all areas of the material have been met. There is always something to teach. I find it hard someone would run out of material- especially at a beginner level. It’s about tapping into creativity. Really plan things out and find the direction you want your class to take. There are endless possibilities. One of the biggest techniques I focus on is creating seamless flow. Once moves are mastered, I want to see them executed in proper form and smoothly in the form of a routine. My routines vary in length- generally one class routines are mini routines repeated over and over again in multiple directions and cued changes/modifications.
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We have newbies, total pole virgin beginners then we also have classes for experienced beginners. It really helps keep the newbies comfortable :-0
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