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Instructor Training

King's Gift Fund Instructor Training Program trains horseback riding instructors ways to create a profitable, sustainable and marketable lesson program.  We want to train our instructors to teach quality, relevant, and thorough lessons based in horsemanship and social/emotional development.  It is our way of caring for students, lesson horses, and instructors so that we can strengthen the equine industry.  

Horsemanship Training

Horseback riding instructors typically care for their horses the way they were taught by their instructors.  Most have learned through trial and error what practices work.  However, no one ever trains instructors to incorporate horsemanship into each riding lesson - especially with total beginners.  King's Gift Fund programs do just that - show instructors how to start from the ground up incorporating horsemanship into every lesson.  We want to help develop horsemen and women in the future, not just riders.  

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Curriculum Development 

Many horseback riding instructors are great with horses, but few are taught how to create a cummulative plan for their lessons.  We believe that riding lessons should run a bit like a classroom course - start with simple tasks and build on those tasks in an organized fashion until goals are met.  Very few riding instructors have a plan for each lesson, and even fewer know how to develop lessons that build on each other.  King's Gift Fund classes will teach instructors how to create step by step lessons that build to a final goal - and how to keep students interested as the plan unfolds.  We even have curriculum prepared to share with instructors so they do not have to recreate the wheel each time they teach a class. 

Business Management

Most riding instructors love being in the barn working with the horses and their clients, but they HATE the business end of the industry.  King's Gift Fund will teach instructors not only how to organize their classes, but we will show them how to market their programs, attract students, manage finances, and acquire lesson horses and teaching materials.  We will even mentor instructors in establishing their own stables or working out of a community stable.  We want to make sure our instructors have ALL the tools they need to be successful as our industry, the economy, and the needs of the community change.  

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