Teacher Training for Children's Yoga
Yoga at School Certificate for Teaching Yoga to Children (YaS CTYC)
Where is the best place to learn to be a confident and successful teacher?
The best teacher training for children’s yoga takes place in the school environment working with children under the watchful eye of an experienced children's yoga teacher. We believe this is the best and most practical way to enhance your confidence, to improve your class management skills and to enrich the content, structure and delivery of your lessons.
Who will train you?
You will train with Michael Chissick. Michael's goal is to foster capable and enthusiastic people to be accomplished and skilful children's yoga teachers.
Michael is well known as 'The Teachers' Teacher'
Michael is the author of the only accredited teacher training course for children’s yoga in the UK - The BTEC Advanced Diploma for Teaching Yoga to Children.
His expertise in designing teacher training courses at the appropriate level and delivering training is unique. Michael is also a British Wheel of Yoga (BWY) Diploma Holder and a qualified primary school teacher.
Michael has taught yoga in both primary and special needs schools for some considerable time and is acknowledged by the yoga community and the education sector as a genuine leader in this field.
Why is this the best course for you?
There are three commanding reasons why this course enables you to become a more confident teacher:
Firstly, you get to see at first hand what top classroom management looks like; how to manage and deal with challenging behaviours and how to teach up to eight classes in a day successfully.
This type of practical experience is priceless.
Weekend courses with your peers are great fun and they do serve a purpose, but they cannot authentically replicate the reality of a class of children and therefore cannot adequately prepare you for the work.
Secondly, you will learn how to teach the complete range of children from Foundation Stage to Year 6. That means children aged from 3 to11.
This means that you will experience and develop appropriate teaching approaches for all the different age groups. In other words you will be ready and able to teach any and all classes in primary school.
Thirdly, you will be the only learner on the day and will, therefore, receive the benefit of One to One training, which means that:
- You will have Michael’s undivided attention. This means that you will have more opportunities to engage in honest and constructive feedback and be able to discuss areas of your practice that you would like to improve.
- In addition you will have opportunities to use Michael as a resource – to ask questions, to observe models of classroom management, behaviour control, how postures are introduced, how games are organised, how to teach relaxation and calming activities, how to teach sequences and much more.
No -Quibble Guarantee of Quality
If you are not totally satisfied with the quality of training you will be offered a full refund
Length of course
The course consists of three distinct and separate days which can be spread over time to suit your needs. It is pretty intensive so we need to start early at 8.00am and work through to 4.00pm.
When is the next course?
Courses run throughout the academic year in term time. You can choose either Wednesday or Friday as your training day.
If you would like to be considered for the course please fill in the enquiry form
Overview of Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Simplify your planning with clear-cut, highly effective structures and strategies
- Improve your class and behavioural management skills
- Teach the Sun Sequence in a variety of ways
- Bring into play well used, much loved yoga games that will enrich your yoga lessons
- Draw on successful strategies to increase children’s self esteem
- Guide children through child-centred relaxation
- Lead children through child-centred calming activities
Assessment and achievement
Of course you need to demonstrate your competence and ability to teach yoga to children. That is why you will take a Qualifying Teaching Practice and hopefully pass. That said, depending upon your confidence and ability, you would have had plenty of teaching practice by the third day.
Other Essentials
You will need an Enhanced CRB to be considered for the course
Insurance
Yoga at School can now help you with the insurance cover that you will need to teach yoga to children.
Simply, having shown that you are competent to teach yoga to children, upon our recommendation you are able to buy Public Liability and Legal Expenses cover at a reasonable rate from a specialist in this field.
We do not profit from this and neither do we receive a commission. This arrangement is there to encourage you to be out there teaching and using the ideas and expertise you have learnt on our training days without bureaucratic hurdles getting in your way.
If you would like know more contact Michael Chissick at info@yogaatschool.org.uk
Applicants are considered from:
From the education sector
This course is ideal for school teachers, teaching assistants and special needs professionals who practice yoga, who have personally experienced the benefits, who regularly attend classes, who attend workshops or yoga holidays to deepen their knowledge and understanding.
Ideal applicants are people who know the kind of benefits that yoga can bring to children and want to make this happen in their schools.
From the yoga community
The course is ideal for yoga teachers with some experience of teaching yoga to children and who would like to improve and develop their teaching skills and approaches.
Ideal candidates will be experienced yoga teachers, whose lives are greatly influenced by their practice and who have a deep sense of gratitude for the richness of life that yoga has given them; and who care passionately about children’s welfare, and who want to use their knowledge and experience of yoga to help children.
Ideal candidates will be experienced yoga teachers, whose lives are greatly influenced by their practice and who have a deep sense of gratitude for the richness of life that yoga has given them; and who care passionately about children’s welfare, and who want to use their knowledge and experience of yoga to help children.
Taster Days
If you would like to train to teach yoga to children , but are not quite sure if you have what it takes, then a taster day could be the answer for you.
Simply, you can spend a day with Michael Chissick in school , observing, co-teaching and asking questions. At the end of the day you will receive honest and constructive feedback. This route is proving to be a wise approach saving students time, money and heartache.
Also you can try a taster day before committing to two more days of teacher training .
Contact Michael Chissick at info@yogaatschool.org.uk for more information about content and cost.
Course cost
Taster days and course fees are sensibly priced and are great value. If you are not totally satisfied with the quality of training you will be offered a full refund.
Price on application.
How to apply
If you would like to be considered for the course please fill in the enquiry form; or if you would like more information email Michael on info@yogaatschool.org.uk ; or and this is probably your best option telephone Michael to explore your suitability.
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