How to Become a Tai Chi Teacher: 7 Practical Steps Towards Setting Up a Class of Your Own (The 7 Steps Towards Mastery Series Book 3)

Colin Hamilton

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Are you passionate about Tai Chi and ready to go out there and teach it? Has your teacher suggested that you should set up a class of your own but you’re not sure how to go about that? Are you already teaching Tai Chi but looking for a helpful guide to answer some practical questions and inspire your teaching? In this final volume of the 7 Steps Towards Mastery series, the authors share with you their own long-established and successful training programme to help to kick-start your career as an instructor. Drawing upon decades of experience, they share with you all the stuff they wish they had known when they first started teaching, so that you don’t have to learn it the hard way! Step by step, you will discover how to communicate your skills and knowledge safely and effectively to people of all ages, in a wide variety of settings, while supporting their needs and rights and meeting all the legal requirements of the profession. Seemingly impenetrable mysteries will be demystified, from how to design stress-free lesson plans and schemes of work to how to survive, or even thrive on, lesson observations by official inspectors! As a bonus, you are then invited to explore the artistry of teaching Tai Chi via a host of tried and tested activities that you can use to enrich the learning experience of your students. A final discussion of the various stages of learning Tai Chi, from beginner through to the very highest levels of the art, makes this an invaluable handbook that you may refer to many times during your teaching career. While acknowledging that their way is not the only way to do things, and with great respect for other instructors worldwide, the authors offer their own approach to teaching in the hope that it will encourage some good Tai Chi practitioners to become great teachers who can help to improve the health and well-being of many people and keep the art alive for future generations.