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Space & Logistics Checklist

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Teaching Arts

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Overview

In this lesson, we highlight logistical and timing considerations.

Objective

Be aware of a number of logistical and timing considerations to attend to before class, during class, and after class ends, plus considerations for obtaining student feedback.

What You'll Get

Provide benefits associated with starting and ending class on time. Note two activities to plan time for after class, and something to watch out for after class is over. When just beginning to teach classes of varying lengths, describe what might help you to adapt a class to different lengths. Provide a quick tip that you can do throughout class to avoid “getting behind.” Provide considerations regarding the practice space that will be helpful to know before class starts. Describe considerations for classes occurring at the following times: in the morning, at lunchtime, in the evening, on the weekend. Explain why you might wish to occasionally re-read the class description presented to students in studio materials. Name three different ways you might obtain student feedback on your teaching and what might help to encourage more participation in your request for feedback, plus potential questions to include in a student feedback form.

Introduction

Are you teaching a new class that’s in a different space or shorter than you’re accustomed to? Is it offered at lunch instead of your usual evening time?

These reminders can serve as a quick checklist of considerations before class starts.

Fundamentals

In The Yogi Entrepreneur, Darren Main highlights a few logistical and ethical fundamentals, one of which is to start and end class on time. Students will appreciate being able to plan around the class because they know it will end on time. And many students will be more likely to arrive on time when they are sure class will begin when scheduled.

ETHICAL REMINDERS

Your class should always start and end on time.
Deep relaxation is part of your class… not an encore.
Putting away props is part of the practice. If you use props, budget time for cleanup.
Dry mopping the floor is part of your class—not the class that follows yours.
If another class is starting shortly after yours, invite students to take conversations out of the practice room. Respecting the time of other teachers is also part of professional ethics.

– Darren Main

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