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Get Started with Learning Levels
Need a leg up?
Not sure how to implement the Learning Levels curriculum – or if it’s even the right fit for your business?
Use these tips to get the most out of our resources and Level Up your lesson program with confidence.
Step 1
Get to know the curriculum
The more familiar you are with our system, the easier it will be to identify which parts work best for you!
We’ve been developing and using Learning Levels resources since 2007, so we’ve got a LOT of materials — and we don’t recommend that you immediately try to use it all!
Instead, think of our Resource Center as a library full of teaching tools you can dip into as needed. If you plan on implementing the Levels in your own lesson program, start with a few basics (such as tracking tools, lesson plans and HorseSense teaching guides) and go from there.
Step 2
What do you want to do with Learning Levels?
No two lesson programs are exactly alike! Your business will be built around your experience, riding disciplines, local target market, facility, horses, climate, budget and goals – all of which will impact how you use our teaching tools.
Level Up your existing program
Maybe you have an established lesson program, but you want to use progressive Levels to help motivate your students and create clear expectations, and you aren’t sure where to start.
Luckily, we went through this process with our own riding school, and have helped hundreds of other businesses do the same.
Get an overview of a Learning Levels launch in this blog post, then download our Launch Kit full of checklists and helpful tips.
Start something new
Are you are a brand-new instructor, or a seasoned instructor ready to build your own business?
Get off on the right foot (or hoof!) by developing a curriculum and policies that will help both you and your students thrive.
Choose Learning Levels resources that support YOUR vision, rather than the other way around. You’ll find tons of helpful advice in the Boss Mares blog – including this post on lessons we learned over two decades in the lesson business.
Create your own curriculum
Your lesson program is unique – and your curriculum can be, too.
We’re all for instructors using the Learning Levels checklists as inspiration for a unique, fully-customized curriculum. Use the parts that work for you and change the parts that don’t!
Look over our helpful tips for adapting our materials — be sure to carefully read the Copyright and Caveats section! And check our Legal Stuff page to ensure that your edits fall under our copyright agreement.
Pan for gold
You absolutely DO NOT need to go all-in on the Learning Levels curriculum to use our materials!
Feel free to mine the resource library for fresh ideas, or adapt our lesson plans to suit your own program.
Print and distribute worksheets or study guide pages to your students on an as-needed basis, using the Resource Center filters to find exactly what you need.
Step 3
A few more links to get you going!
LLPro Membership Benefits
- FREE unlimited downloads for ALL of our teaching tools: study guides, lesson plans, course maps, challenges, etc.
- time-saving lesson planners and trackers
- helpful members-only blog posts
- members-only discounts on Shop merchandise
