Class Delivery  / Sound Teaching Skills

  • Praise participants often.
  • Explain the reasons for certain movements.
  • Utilize clear and concise terminology.
  • Use visual cueing.
  • Provide breakdown of rhythmical and movement design to facilitate the success of participants.
  • Teach exercises in a progression–easy to hard, light to heavy. Rhythmical progressions should be simple to moderate, moderate to complex.
  • Teach movement and rhythmical combinations separately, then together.
  • Develop movement and rhythms that challenge the physical and cognitive level of participants and include modifications often. When possible tell your participants what muscle is being targeted in a given movement.
  • Use activities of daily living (ADL) examples whenever possible.
  • Provide proper build up and break down of both rhythm and/or movement patterns.