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Strategic Teaching Plans

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Teaching Arts

Overview

In this lesson, we explore development of a Strategic Teaching Plan—a high-level look at your teaching over a period of time, such as a season, month, or week.

Objective

Understand the benefits and process of creating a Strategic Teaching Plan that guides your teaching over time and deepens student learning.

What You'll Get

You'll learn how to think beyond individual classes and create a roadmap for your teaching that honors seasons, philosophies, and student progression. This isn't about rigid planning—it's about creating a container that makes each class more intentional, gives you breathing room, and allows students to go deeper. Teachers will find their planning becomes more efficient and cohesive. Practitioners and studio owners will understand how thoughtful sequencing over time creates richer learning and community.

Lesson Overview

In this lesson, we explore development of a Strategic Teaching Plan — a high-level look at your teaching over a period of time, such as a season, month, or week.

Objective

Be aware of the many specific benefits from creating a Strategic Teaching Plan (a high-level look at your teaching over a period of time, such as a season, month, or week) and how to create one.

Description

Differentiate strategic planning from creating an individual class plan. Name up to five examples of intentions for a strategic teaching plan. Discuss the teaching opportunity gained by planning ahead of time. Explain a benefit for students, and a specific opportunity for marketing and promotion. Describe how the focus you set in a plan can guide your practice and study. Discuss how strategic planning can make your overall class planning time more efficient and effective. Explain how considering your signature style can assist you in your planning. Describe various possible formats for your plan. Note how you can use seasonal considerations, philosophy and yoga tools in your planning, and specify resources you can you use to support you. Give an example of a monthly plan.

Your Strategic Teaching Plan

We invite you to begin drafting a “Strategic Teaching Plan” — a high-level look at your teaching over a period of time, such as a season, month, or week. You can create a basic plan in less than an hour and see how it makes you feel as you use it to guide your teaching. Then you can build on it over time as you wish.

Here we’re referring to something different from an individual class plan. (For individual class planning, see the Planning & Sequencing Hub.)

With a Strategic Teaching Plan, you clarify your intention for a particular time period or multiple time periods. The plan may be designed to:

Balance the effects of seasons.
Honor holidays and observances.
Respond to particular conditions.
Guide students deeper on a topic, whether philosophical, physical or other.
Or, progress through a series of related topics.

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