How to Plan and Teach Workshops
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A detailed overview of planning, teaching, and refining workshops or classes to teach at a fire or flow festival. From developing lesson plans and best practices for teaching the workshop itself, I go into how to collect feedback on the workshop and using it to refine the workshop into the best version of itself it can be!
The process you'll want to go through looks like this:
1. Set no more than 3 goals for your workshop
2. Outline a lesson plan that supports and reinforces these goals
3. Try to keep the outline to 1 page or less
4. Anticipate bringing any extra resources you need with you
Once teaching the workshop, you'll want to consider the following:
1. Project your voice by talking to the back row of students
2. Keep your students both mentally and physically engaged
3. Whether you want to split your class by experience level (I prefer not to)
At the end of the class you'll want to:
1. Do a quick review of content covered to reinforce it for your students (ask them to pull out their cameras)
2. Collect feedback from your students on how the class went
In the longer term:
1. Revise your workshop based around the feedback you've collected
2. Take other instructors' workshops to learn from their teaching styles
My template feedback form can be found here: goo.gl/98mCkn
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I used to love putting on Anger workshops. Fun!
Great content thanks. I love that you talk fast and to the point.
@lucertolla
4 жыл бұрын
love that too! talk fast and to the point! 😉thanks!!
I love the way you get right to the nitty gritty. I like your rate of speech. Thank you for not meandering or taking several minutes to talk about your cat or whatever.
Drex, you have a video for everything! Thank you so much for your work
This is a great video. No BS and exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you!!
Thank you for being so succinct! I found this incredibly helpful, even though I'm planning to teach theatre workshops, these tips are very applicable.
Wow what insane timing for this video. Just today after a lot of thought and a few requests from friends I made a group and am organizing an intro to poi workshop to get more of a community in my area. I've never actually taught a workshop and this is something i'm putting together myself but I want it to be as positive an experience as i can make it and this has already given me so much more solid of a game plan. Thank you so much for all the effort you put in and everything you do!
@DrexFactor
7 жыл бұрын
Perfect timing indeed! Thank you for stepping up and contributing to our community in this way--be sure to let me know afterwards how the class went and whether this advice helped at all :)
wow so helpful thank you. So inspired to start teaching. Starting with free workshops to leverage myself and test it out. Great advice, subscribed! :)
Thank you Drex, I really love this one 🔥🐯🔥
Awesome! I'll be teaching a pen and art workshop in a few weeks this vid really help me..
Outstanding. I've been teaching (public high school and juggling festivals) for almost 20 years and in my opinion, you nailed it right on the head. Fantastic. I'm looking forward to seeing you at Fire Drums.
@DrexFactor
7 жыл бұрын
Deeply honored! Thank you so much--I look forward to seeing you as well :)
I met you at FireDrums last year and Drex, you teach a damn good workshop. To all those up-and-comers listen to this sage!
@DrexFactor
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! Hopefully we get more people teaching damn good workshops by watching this ;)
Great content. Thank you so much 👏🏽
Excellent Advice!
You've got a new subscriber👏🏻
Great advice, agree that you could slow down a little so my brain can keep up!
thank you, you gorgeous poi-spinning person of joy and splendor.
Very helpfull thank you
Great suggestions, Drex! A+. ;)
@DrexFactor
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Alexis! :)
the haiku idea is brilliant!!!!
@DrexFactor
7 жыл бұрын
I wish I could claim credit for it, but it was actually an idea from my dance teacher that I shamelessly stole ;)
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great help!! plus i didnt have to fast forward the video!! (Y)
great, but you speak way to fast....
@karishmabagla4956
5 жыл бұрын
You can change playback speed to 0.5X