Teaching/Coaching Horse Riders Preparation Course

• Based on the BHS Stage 2 Teach Award and the ABRS UK Equestrian Coaching Certificate Level 2

Who is it for:

• For prospective riding instructor coaches
• For riding teachers/instructors/coaches with little time to attend a course
  • Who would like to improve their skills and learn more about how to teach well
• For parents aiming to help their own children
  • It’s a really good place to start your teaching career and helps with safety and risk factors
• For those aiming to become an instructor
  • Explains and guides you through what is involved and how to gain instructors qualifications
• For those already teaching or looking for a career change
  • This course provides loads of information and guidance and provides you with a more professional approach to teaching and coaching.

You’ll learn about HOW people learn, types of learners and how to handle various situations and approaches to teaching.  This course provides a step by step guide to teaching, managing lessons and groups and to preparing for a professional coaching qualification. It gives clear guides and insight into what to expect if you are aiming for quaifications, plus and how to teach welland professionally with insight into the riders mind.

Whether you are already teaching, your qualification assessment date with the qualifying body is imminent, you have yet to start training, or are only thinking about training to be a coach/instructor, this course is ideal. 

Eminently suitable for those who aim to achieve one of the 2 national British Equestrian Coaching qualifications  a)  The  BHS”Teach Award”  or b)   The “British Equestrian Coaching Certificate” with the ABRS. The Association of British Riding Schools provides the internationally recognised coaching certificate, accredited by 1st4Sport and The British Equestrian Federation – (see this link of our site for more information).

What are the beneits to me?

• Work at your own speed – in your own time
• No fixed completion dates.
• Put the course down when life gets hectic – pick it up again when things calm down

Although this is not a professional qualification in itself, it is set up to ‘prepare’ you for teaching and for the professional BHS Teach Award or the ABRS Level 2 Coaching Certificate.’   To gain the relevant stable management qualifications first contact the BHS or the ABRS.  We can provide the theory for those, so for more information review the equine management courses on this site.

• This is one of the very few – if not the only distance course available which explains what to teach, what to prepare & how to present your lessons and plans for BHS & ABRS assessment
• This course provides you with the details of exactly what to expect on assessment day and will give you the tools to achieve a good pass
• Perfect for anyone preparing for professional assessments and exams

• It’s useful for anyone aiming to teach anywhere in the world.
• Mini lecture/presentations are included.  These presentations cover a variety of topics useful and a standard for presenting to staff and regular helpers and volunteers.  You will learn how to plan and present your talks with ease and confidence.
• If you are already teaching, aim to teach / coach professionally in future,  this course will help you prepare lessons – give you ideas on how to approach lead rein, groups, private lessons, jumping lessons and more.
• You’ll learn how people learn and how to handle situations when you have groups of parents on the sidelines who are sometimes keen to ‘assist’

Learn how to teach, how people learn, how to assess risks.

• Optional final assignment for Certification (tutor assessed)
• Admin fee for optional tutor assessed assignments £15 / £19 Paypal/overseas

What is in it for me?

• Distance learning to future proof your business
• Build skills for today, tomorrow and beyond
• Fast, economical, flexible completion dates
• The Friendly Distance Learning group – with Accredited courses.

Enrol now – immediate start.  Automated receipt of course files.  No waiting.  An insight into what is expected on Exam/Assessment day with the BHS or ABRS

You have the confidence that the author of this course has professional BHS qualifications and Level 2 UKCC plus loads of personal experience – Gail has been there and done it and speaks from experience.  As Teach award course author Gail is highly qualified and has a broad client base all of whom are regularly put forward for and achieve BHS amateur awards.

Students must read & comply with the entry requirements for this course.

We include the following because some are as yet unaware of the options available for coaches in UK. 

The alternative to the BHS training and qualification route is:

The Level 2 Equestrian Coaching Certificates offered by various disciplines.  e.g. British Eventing, British Dressage, British Showjumping, British Carriage Driving, British Reining and the generic riding option by the Association of British Riding Schools: 

• This is overseen by the British Equestrian Federation (Now renamed British Equestrian) via 1st4sport and provided by the ABRS.  The ABRS sometimes also offer Level 1 as do the Pony Club.
• Further details will be found here on our post about this
• ABRS direct info is here but changes as and when new info is available.  Keep checking back

Learners have security in the knowledge that Lingfield Correspondence has been a professional Training Provider since 1996.

ABRS – special offer on block bookings – contact the office.

Tutor: Gail West

Syllabus link is shown next to Course Details above  but can also be found here

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