Need Help With Lesson Plans For TKD

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.
 
Thanks for the reply!



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.


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.
That is a good point. Do you have more then one room to hold classes in? You could have a general class going in one room where any belt can come in and work on anything, and in the other room, have a classes set up by sets, like I stated.
 
That is a good point. Do you have more then one room to hold classes in? You could have a general class going in one room where any belt can come in and work on anything, and in the other room, have a classes set up by sets, like I stated.
sorry it took a while for me to reply.

Do you have more then one room to hold classes in?
No we do not. We have a small room for one class, and a lobby area.
 
Hey guys. I am a 3rd Degree Black belt in Taekwondo who was thrown into teaching at 1st degree with little to no feedback or mentorship so I've been winging a lot of classes. Some I am super proud of, but most are bland, useless, and a waste of my time, their time, and their money. I teach 2 classes; a kids class ages 7-13, and an "adult" class ages 13+. I would really appreciate some lesson plan Ideas as well as some (preferably free) resources on concepts I can teach and expand on. Another thing is we do a stripe system to mark how close someone is to testing. I'm not sure how many TKD schools do this but if your school does this what are they based on. At my old school we did one stripe for stances and blocks, the next was kicks and strikes, and the third was forms. This is hard for me to do when there are also time requirements for each belt where I kept giving stripes too early, so to fix this I've been waiting longer. However, I cannot remember when every student got their last stripe so now I have the opposite problem where I am waiting too long, this is also the result of me trying to focus more on having more beneficial classes and I forget to think about stripes. I think the time requirements are very important, even if the techniques are "perfect" based on their rank, because I believe each belt represents both skill level and experience level. Anyway, all that to say, If anyone else either uses or have other ideas for other standards for stripes that would also be appreciated.

Our school leans more traditional, especially as it relates to sparring. None of us like the sensors that tournaments use where if you hit too hard or not in the exact right place it doesn't count for anything. We haven't done a lot of practical self defense so I would also like some ideas on using TKD for self defense. Our school also has a Hapkido program so we get SOME practical self defense in that area but I'm curious what TKD has. We are also a WTF school with Kukkiwon as well as USKMAF, but, at least to my knowledge, we are not STRICTLY held to those standards. We do some block chambers in older styles, only changing what we find to be reasonable.

I'm sorry this is so long, if there is any other context or something I can explain better please let me know, any and all help is extremely appreciated. Thank you.
Circling back around to the post. Have you created or added to your curriculum yet? I would love to hear what input from this forum has helped you in any way.
 
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