Pilates Teaching Handbook: Tools for Developing Your Skills as a Teacher

This comprehensive handbook addresses a critical gap in Pilates teacher education by focusing on the development of teaching skills rather than just technique mastery. It uniquely centers on how teachers can evolve their instructional abilities, assessment skills, and professional growth strategies. Structured across nine chapters, the handbook provides a systematic approach to teacher development. Chapters focus on exploring the deeper motivations behind teaching Pilates, how to identify your core teaching values and align your practice accordingly, feedback mechanisms, and mentorship relationships, among other topics. Each chapter includes reflective exercises, case studies, links to explanatory videos, and assessment tools that you can immediately implement. The extensive appendix also provides structured self-assessment forms and action plan templates that support your ongoing professional development. The book serves instructors across all Pilates traditions and other movement educators, focusing on universal teaching principles rather than specific exercise systems and bridging the gap between understanding Pilates principles intellectually and embodying them in practice and instruction.

Pagina's: 272, Paperback, Handspring Publishing Limited