Create a small teaching session and review whether the parts fit.
Plan one lesson you could rehearse
Choose a small topic from material you know well. Use the introduction you practised earlier if it fits. Write the outcome in one sentence, then plan what you will say, what you will show and what the learner will try. Keep the plan short enough to consult while teaching.
A worked example is a twenty-minute introduction to Gassho: two minutes to explain the purpose and choices; four to show a comfortable position and the attention focus; eight for a short attempt and discussion of adaptations; four to review what helped; two to name the next practice. Those timings are a rehearsal structure you can adjust.
Check whether the pieces fit
Read your plan as if you were the learner. If you promised a practical skill, is there time to try it? If you ask a final question, did you teach the material needed to answer it? Remove any attractive activity that does not serve the outcome. You can save it for a later lesson.
Finish by naming one access question you would ask before the rehearsal and one instruction you want to say more clearly. Keep this plan for the micro-teaching exercise in chapter three.
Check your understanding
Sources and further reading
- Free Level 1 course — First-party foundation material for the teaching examples.
- Level 2 manual: Gassho — The practice used in the original twenty-minute teaching example.