small teaching group parameters and schedule (fwd)

[Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>]

Sunday 12/12 @ 11am is when my group will be teaching.
Are you willing to be one of our students?

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:46:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: joyce anue <http://profiles.yahoo.com/joyceanue>
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Subject: small teaching group parameters and schedule

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to share a few things about the small group teaching you will
all be doing during the training during December and January.

1) Each group will present a class to an invited audience of 6-8 students. 
Students teachers in the group are responsible for inviting
6-8 participants, preferably those new to yoga.  Family members and friend
are OK.  Have your guests come 10-15 minutes before class starts so we can
start promptly at the designated times below.

2) Each teacher  will have 20- 30 minutes to present a portion of a whole
class.  One person should be designated to teach each part (re: introduction
and warm-ups, main body of class, cool down and savasana.  Savasana should
not be more than 5 minutes.  Please do your best to stick to your alotted
time.  If you run over significantly (more than 5 minutes, I may signal you
to wrap up your section).

3) When one teacher is presenting, the other teachers in the group will
listen attentively and may offer corrections or support of the class with
props as necessary.  The other teachers participation should be minimized
and designed to support the active teacher.   Assisting teachers should
avoid speaking if at all possible.

4) Once the class is finish and our guests have left, we will reconvene for
feedback and "debriefing".  I'll talk more about how giving effective
feedback next month.

5) You will definitely want to plan, review and practice your session ahead
of time.  The assistants (Devin and Mindy) and I are available if you have
questions about what to or not to include in the sessions. The only weekend
class time I will give you to prepare for this and ask questions is on
Sunday November 21st from 3-5 pm.  You will want to spend additional time
meeting with your group outside of class or during our lunch breaks.

6) Because we only have four groups, you will all teach in December (see
schedule below).  Our first group will start be 9:15 am-10:15 with feedback
immediately after.  We will probably end up doing feedback for the second
group that morning during or after lunch.  I think you will all be hungry by
12:30 pm.  Bring a snack if you know you will be hungry.

Yoga for Balance (Coco, Julie, Dana)
9:15 am Saturday, December 11th

Vinyasa Flow (Soodie, Eva, Jenny, Janet)
11:00 am Saturday, December 11th

Yoga Fundamentals (Wendy, Inga, Lacy)
9:15 am Sunday, December 12th

Yoga For Health (Marilyn, Kathy, Cindy and Noelle)
  11:00 am Sunday, December 12th

 FYI our last quiz will be in November so you  have time to prepare for the
final exams in January (practical and written) and your small group teaching
in December.

Best wishes, Joyce