Originally Posted by Rob2197
This would be my dream job. I love golf and love helping others. Don't think I'd want to make $250/week for the next two years though.
I know there are a lot of instructors on this site so - How'd you get started teaching? Is the pay ridiculously low to begin with? What steps are involved?
Where did you ever get the idea that instructors are poor?
If you are consistently producing good results, there will not be enough hours in the day to teach. If you teach a modest 8 hours a day at $50 an hour, that is $400.
Assuming you teach 5 days a week , that is $2000 a week - a far cry from your $250 per week.
In a month, you are bagging $8000 doing something you love. What is wrong with that?
Like all the other instructors here will attest, you are judged even before you start teaching. Do you look the part? Once you look the part, its hard to look at you and say "crap teacher".
In psychology speak this is the science of impression formation / management.
Looking the part helps; looking the part and knowing your stuff is even better...Which brings us to the stark reality of teaching.
Can you produce results fast. Do you have the technical know-how to do that? If not, you should seek enlightenment from an enlightened one.
In today's "Instant Coffee" society, if you can't produce results fast, you will go out the door fast.
I would like to clarify that producing results fast does not mean turning them into Sergio Garcia in 2 hours.
Producing results fast means that you can give your students a idea of what they can achieve if you do what you say.
If you can get your students to hit the sweetspot in the first lesson and compress the ball, it is like feeding them a SPEEDBALL. They will be hooked.
Usually, this is what I do:
I start off beginners or hackers with an assisted chip, where I help them make a little chip shot. When they get the sweet spot, this gives them a G.O.L.F "orgasm".
If you do the assist correct, it should not take more than one attempt to help them get the sweet spot.
Of course when they start chipping on their own, they won't be able to get 10/10. They will at least be able to get 2/10. Your job is to encourage them to keep at it until they overlay old habits with new ones to the point they achieve 10/10.
You can see that this will not take 2 minutes to achieve. But it will not take 2 years either!
Per 1-G "The instructor can only inform and explain - the student must absorb and apply."
The instructor can only
inform if he has the correct information to begin with.
The instructor can only
explain if he has the requisite communication skills to get across to the student the necessary information.
How best to communicate in different styles except to know the different personality types and their varied learning styles?
How best to make the student
absorb but to make your golf lesson interactive and interesting?
How best to make the student
apply but to show him that your prescription will get him to the promised land the quickest?
