Diamond C Stables

I teach beginner western riding on Fridays. The barn has its own guidelines on pace, but no lesson structure and no planning to run a session on, no written progression, no student materials and no way for a parent to see what their child had learned. So the program is self created: it was on me to build it, for the students in front of me.

1. 01

   Progress

   An eight level progression, each level earned with its own cattle brand.

2. 02

   Journal

   Two age-based rider journals, built around three end of lesson questions.

3. 03

   Teach

   24 instructor lesson plans with teach steps, fixes and a game each session.

4. 04

   Check

   80 skill checks across the eight levels, signed off per session.

5. 05

   Log

   An instructor app that logs lessons against the progression on real records.

• 01

  An eight level rider progression, with a cattle brand for each level

• 02

  Two rider journals, ages 5 to 11 and 12 and up, built around three end of lesson questions

• 03

  Instructor lesson plans with teach steps, fixes, a game and sign off checks per session

• 04

  Take home packs, flash cards and homework bingo for the week between lessons

• 05

  An instructor app that logs lessons against the progression on real records, not PDFs