The Lesson Had Ten Ideas
A golfer propped his phone against a bag, filmed his GolfTEC lesson, and posted it. Nineteen minutes. I watched it twice, with a notepad, the way I'
Auditing the lesson for the best teaching practices
Every Teaching Audit scores a real lesson against these three, with timestamps and a rewrite of the weakest minute.
Your coaches know the swing. The question an audit answers is whether what they know lands, and stays landed until the next lesson. That's the difference between a first package and a second one.
We review teaching, not technique. Your method stays yours.The report is about the coach's teaching, not the student's golf, and the student is never named. Most programs already record lessons for their own tools; we review what you already have. If you want to tell the student, we'll give you the sentence.
Never. We don't have a swing method and we won't pretend to. The three gates are about sequencing, anchoring, cognitive load and checking for understanding. A coach can run any method through them.
Yes, and often better, because the data on screen gives the Check gate something concrete to point at.
Piers Blyth, a science teacher with fifteen years in instructional design and learning science, and a golfer who took lessons that didn't stick. Every report is read twice before it goes out.
The first package sells on hope. The second sells on results the student can feel. A lesson that holds for a week produces that feeling; a lesson that fades by Saturday produces a polite goodbye. Teaching that sticks is the renewal lever nobody is pulling.
Directors of instruction and academy owners: the first audit is a working conversation, not a sales call.