great idea.
last class i taught:
adult yellow and orange belt. warmed up by playing hackey sack with a punch target. circle up and throw three in, the students keep it in the air using only basic strikes and kicks. moved on from there to some kick drills with focus mits.
moved on to techniques (american kenpo), demoing them and partnering students up to work them.
moved to kata from there, adding pieces for each student.
finished by taking one technique, deconstructing it and having each student make up then demo a variation on the theme.
last class i attended:
started by demoing advanced kata -- each student and the instructor takes a turn.
spent time on partner work with conceptual concepts, movement based stuff. pretty subtle this time, manipulation of one side of the body to cancel the other side out.
went on to pick up two new techniques. finished with some kata polish.