6 Steps to Making Unmounted Lessons a Powerful Asset for Your Riding Program
When it comes to offering unmounted lessons in your program, it’s not always easy to get everyone on board. Whether it’s convincing your students, their…
Category: Instructor Development
How to Maintain Your Instructor Certification and Track Continuing Education Hours
Keeping your certification up to date as an adaptive/therapeutic riding instructor is essential—not just to meet industry standards, but to keep growing in your skills…
6 Practical Tips for Managing Rushy or Speedy Students in Adaptive/Therapeutic Riding Lessons
As Adaptive/therapeutic riding instructors, we often encounter students who speed through tasks and focus more on getting a task done rather than how well its…
TEACHING TIP: The importance of POSITIVE INSTRUCTIONS vs. Negative Instructions……or DO vs. Don’t
Let’s do a little exercise…read each phrase then see what image comes into your brain: Phrase #1: “Don’t drop the reins”! Phrase #2: “Hold the…
TEACHING TIP: Talk to your volunteers THROUGH your student!
What’s one of my top tips for working with non-verbal, limited verbal, or under responsive students: Don’t leave students out of the plan! Focus your…
Considerations & Best Practice: Gait belt use in adaptive/therapeutic riding lessons
This post was prompted by a true/false question posted on the Hoof Falls & Footfalls Facebook page and the resulting answers, comments, and discussions. A…
TEACHING TIP for Group Lessons: Get unstuck from your “glue trap” student(s)
TEACHING TIP for adaptive/therapeutic riding GROUP LESSONS: Don’t get “glued” to your lead student/ student that needs the most support. Instead, spread out the feedback…
True or False: A student who has extreme difficulties with sensory processing and cannot tolerate a helmet can still ride in an adaptive/therapeutic riding lesson as long as they have a full team
Original prompt posted on the Hoof Falls & Footfalls Facebook page: Original prompt posted on the Hoof Falls & Footfalls Facebook page: True or False:…
6 Patterns to use in Simple Setup #1
Sometimes all it takes is a few examples of how to use a tool, in this case the arena setup, to get your own creative…
Considerations & Use of the THIGH HOLD
One common “hold” seen in adaptive/therapeutic riding lessons is the “THIGH HOLD”. This hold may also be seen in physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech…