The Martial Arts Teaching Tactics Podcast: Recent Episodes
Chris Beane
Join us as we dive into the heart of Martial Arts Appreciation Month. Discover creative ways to celebrate and bring awareness to the martial arts in your community. From enlightening mat chats about legendary martial arts figures to hosting fun-filled game nights, we've got you covered. Plus, hear inspiring messages from your instructors on why they appreciate martial arts. Let's unite and celebrate the martial arts together! 🥋 #MartialArtsAppreciation
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In the one we recap episodes 1-25 going over what we believe to be the key takeaways from those episodes.Â
Whether you know it or not, your school has its own ecosystem. The way you run your classes, how you schedule your events, how the school looks, smells, sounds. Everything about your school is attributed to its ecosystem. The environment of your school, how a new client feels when they are on the phone with your staff, what they see when they come in for the first time. While this is likely not something you set up purposefully, it is something you can change with purpose.
First and foremost the list of games that follow is not exhaustive, they are also not unique to your school or mine. I simply want to give you some options to try. I would recommend that even if you don't think they would be fun or exciting for your students, give them a try at least once to see how they fit your school.
- Chinese Stars
- Great Wall
- Wars
- Belt Sparring
Have a list of both free and paid events and from that list, schedule events ideally once per month. Doing this will keep your students engaged in your program. Some examples of events would be:
- Board Breaking Seminar
- Parents Night Out
- National Martial Arts Appreciation Month
- Buddy Bash
- Extreme Obstacle Course
- Nerf Wars
- Zombie Nerf Wars
- Birthday Parties
- Field Trips
- Martial Arts Extravaganza
In our pursuit of becoming a better teacher and leader to our students we need to understand what it means to be a better student. Just because we are a teacher or leader does not mean we are not still students. We need to do our best to remember what it is like to be a great student and try our best to foster those skills in our students.
Prevent burnout in both our students as well as our instructors is key to maintaining effective and efficient classes. This can be easily managed by your class schedule and your schools atmosphere.
In this episode we discuss what spaced repetition is and how or if we should add this technique to our classes. Spaced repetition encourages learning over framing new information. Let’s first take a look at what spaced repetition is.
Today we are going to do a deep dive into memory and some tactics we can leverage to help our students retain their information. Getting our students to move their information from their short term memory to their long term memory will be key to their success.
Last week we took a look at the things you can directly do to teach a great class. I hope you took the time to build your own checklist. Now let’s look at some of the results of teaching a great class. Those will be the byproducts of how you are teaching your classes. These byproducts really need to be the metrics you gauge your classes success on.
If I had to distill a great class into a check list it would have 4 major points. I believe if you can check off each of these items you will be teaching great classes. Your list will likely be different than mine. But what follows is a list of must haves for me to teach a great class. During each of the classes I teach I like to accomplish these 4 things.
Note taking is a simple idea, when you are learning new information, often it comes at a rate that you can not really comprehend or understand everything. So you take notes on some of that new information, so you can review it later, with the hope that it will allow you to better understand that information. Easy enough, right?
In this episode we go over some ideas of what your ideal student may look like. What can we as instructors do to create the ideal martial arts students. That is our job, right? What type of qualities would your ideal student possess?
Reteaching is not fun for us the instructors, or the students. From time to time, and for a multitude of reasons, you will need to reteach information to your students. The reason this is particularly tough is because you will likely be frustrated. You have already taught this information to the students, who did not practice. Your students will be difficult because they think they already know this information. This makes them feel as if they can go through the information at light speed, and we know that is not the case.
Setting specific learning targets for your students will set them up for success by giving them a specific takeaways from your classes.
Getting your students to feel excited about your classes will aid in their learning ability. This is because if they are genuinely interested in what you are teaching they will be more apt to retain the information.
Teaching while you are teaching can be huge to your current a future teaching team. With this concept you will be stating to the class why you are making the corrections and choices you are making. As you can imagine if you can accomplish the tactic well then you will be greatly helping the future of your program.
The difference between a good instructor and a great instructor is the details they can see, and how direct the feedback they can give. We have all seen a student perform a move that is not quite right, but not be entirely sure what exactly is wrong with the move. The difference between a good instructor and a great instructor is being able to correctly identify the root cause of the problem and communicate the solution. Today we are going to be discussing the levels of instructor feedback.
The way we teach new information to our students is key to their success, today we will discuss a important teaching concept to add to your tool box.
You will have students who get sick or go on vacation from time to time. It is important to have a system in place to monitor your student's attendance, and get them back on track.Â
We have talked about the benefits of using some basic systems to track your school's metrics. Now that you may be paying more attention to cancellations and denied enrollments more than you have before. Let’s discuss couple of ways to handle this.
In this bonus episode we tackle an issue we were having. Join us as we discuss and come up with a solution.Â
Setting up automations for your school can be a huge benefit to your school. Once you have the systems all set up the will be able to work without you lifting a finger. In this episode we cover a few ideas and tactics to using automations.Â
In this episode we cover some protocol for new students to your school. When you have trial students come to your school, what type of processes do you have in place? Do they know where to go? Did they find your school easily? Does your staff know what to do to get them on the training floor? How long has it been since they contacted you before they can come in to do their first class? What type of information do they need to know for their next class? Did you tell them how to sign in for the class to track their attendance? Does your teaching team know they are a trial student or how they should help them?
Goal setting needs to be an integral part of how you run your program. Having monthly, quarterly, and yearly goals is a great idea. Not only for you as the owner but also for your students. In this episode we go over some key tactics we use for setting those goals.Â
Private lessons are one on one lessons. This is a great way to catch students up if they are behind, or offer extra one on one attention. Having a defined system in place for you and your team to follow can greatly benefit your students.
The primary way we share our information with our students is by demonstrating. Therefore, we need to do the best we can to deliver the information in a way that each student can see, hear and understand what we are doing.
Teaching virtual classes can be necessary to keeping your students on track in this day and age. Having a protocol for teaching virtual classes will be helpful to keep all of your team members on the same page.
In this episode we go over some different ideas and mindsets to developing your class schedule.Â
In this episode today we are going to go over the layout of your lesson plan. Of course after you build your lesson plan you will need to have a way to interact with it, do you have a physical paper or binder, is there a page for each of your classes, and how do you and your team know what class are need to teach?
In this episode we cover your teams responsibility's and holding your team accountable.Â
In this episode we cover the relationship of quantity vs quality as it relates to our teaching.
In this episode we discuss the importance of holding your students to their own standard.
In this episode we discuss how practicing affects your students in realistic ways and how to leverage different practicing methods to benefit your students.Â
In this episode we go through the different stages of understanding and how your students will interact with the moves you are teaching them.
In this episode we go over how the learning cycle works as well as some tools we can use to speed up the the learning cycle.
In this episode we cover a few tactics for managing large class sizes or if you are understaffed
This episode covers how to motivate your students and staff in various ways as well as several methods of instilling intrinsic motivation.
Building off of the praise episode, we cover correction and how to make the biggest impact.
In this episode we cover the 3 main learning styles and how to best leverage them to our advantage.Â
In this episode we talk about the goals we have for the podcast. We also interview each other to let you know more about us. Find us @mateachingtactics on social media.
This episode covers the concept of being the best version of yourself on the teaching floor.