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.

 

[SamCanMan]

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.

 

[Donovan Jakob]

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.

 

[HighKick]

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.

 

[SamCanMan]

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.

If it would help, I was in a Ji Do Kwan classes about 40 years ago. I still have all the papers my father and I were given. If you would like them, I will upload them to google drive so you can download them and get an idea about what to teach. Please pm me if you would like this.

Good luck

Sam

 

[Donovan Jakob]

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.

Hey! I appreciate the follow up. I have not yet made changes to the format of my classes just yet. At least not any that were specifically suggested here, however, I have been mixing it up more lately. I have been able come up with a lot of different drills on my own. I still have yet to lay everything out and decide what to do. Part of this is because I am also trying to figure out other things in life, like a job/career path, which I have recently picked a direction for, so I am currently studying for that.

However, this forum has helped me with figuring out what I want to look for when promoting students, and also how to deal with older people in class as well as some helpful tips in PMs for kids. We had a short meeting one day before a class started with the 3 instructors and I have suggested some things that have been discussed in this forum. It doesn't seem like they were on board with a lot of it, but I didn't have time to explain the ideas and why I think we should implement them clearly. However what we did come to a conclusion on is a general striping system.

This is what we decided:
1st: You know the basic movement of the new techniques in your form
2nd: You can perform the movements well. (solid chamber, snap, etc.)
3rd: You can do the techniques well and properly in your form, with good timing + personal growth (e.g: dis-respectfulness, focus issues, etc.)

Once you get the 3rd stripe then you can test at the end of the month (usually the last Friday of the month)

Even though I have not implemented anything specific yet, the encouragement from so many different people of different ranks, schools, and styles has gone a long way in and of itself.

That said, I will 100% look through all of this again and lay everything out to improve on my teaching because there is some awesome advice and different perspectives that I absolutely value and appreciate.

Things that I would like to implement at some point:
- Warp up first, then dynamic and light stretching instead of static stretches, warm up, deeper static stretching
- Crescent leg swings and linear leg swings post stretch
- Your suggestion to think back and write out everything I have learned up to this belt and expand on it (much better than trying to come up with drills off the top of my head every time)
- Visit other TKD schools and learn from them
- Get with the other instructors and make a requirement sheet of our own for every belt

This was just from a quick skim through. I will have more details in a separate doc and then once I have it figured out I work them all in to normal classes.

Sorry it took me a few days to get back to you. I just checked my email and saw the notification.

PS:
While skimming through the past messages I realized that there is one thing that I have done and have been doing a lot more of, which is your suggestion of "twitch trigger" drills. Both with and without an audio cue.

 

[Donovan Jakob]

If it would help, I was in a Ji Do Kwan classes about 40 years ago. I still have all the papers my father and I were given. If you would like them, I will upload them to google drive so you can download them and get an idea about what to teach. Please pm me if you would like this.

Good luck

Sam

I sent you a PM, I appreciate the offer!

 

[SamCanMan]

I just sent you an email with the links. I hope they help you