Need Help With Lesson Plans For TKD

[Donovan Jakob]

I am not a teacher. I was a student of Ji Do Kwan years ago, and started taking classes again a few years ago. I would suggest that you structure your classes by belt group for example: Low belts class is for white to orange (White, Yellow, up to Orange) Middle belts class is is for Orang to Purple (Orang, Blue, up to Purple) high level Purple to Black (Purple, Green, Red, up to Brown) Top belt class is for Brown, and higher. Each of those classes are for people with those belts or higher. In each of the classes, only the requirements for each belt listed in the class description is taught.

Make up an excel sheet column A would be your student's names and you could use Column B - ZZ to record dates they were tested, or taught each step needed to go up in belt levels. I still have my test requirement sheet from 40 years ago here it is. I hope it helps you

Thanks for the reply!

I would suggest that you structure your classes by belt group for example: Low belts class is for white to orange (White, Yellow, up to Orange) Middle belts class is is for Orang to Purple (Orang, Blue, up to Purple) high level Purple to Black (Purple, Green, Red, up to Brown) Top belt class is for Brown, and higher. Each of those classes are for people with those belts or higher. In each of the classes, only the requirements for each belt listed in the class description is taught.

This is not a bad idea, however, There are one issue with this that I can think of off the top of my head. We would have to either be open longer or spread the classes out throughout the week. We would rather have the students be able to come all 5 days of the week if they choose to, which means we are left with having to be open longer. We can't really go any later because either the Hapkido people would be going home pretty late, and we can't go any earlier because we wouldn't have enough time to get to the gym after work. Our school isn't set up to make profit. the only reason we charge is to keep the lights on, basically. Which means we have to have a job outside of TKD and try to make it to the school in time to teach classes.

Make up an excel sheet column A would be your student's names and you could use Column B - ZZ to record dates they were tested, or taught each step needed to go up in belt levels. I still have my test requirement sheet from 40 years ago here it is. I hope it helps you

Thank you for this requirement sheet, I will take a look at it and get ideas for how I want to make my own. It can still be used for each rank without having to have rank-exclusive classes.