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Ok, I'll start.
The last lesson I went to my instructor was busy so he asked me to take the class, here's what we did:
First lesson, junior grades: Workout lesson
Had lots of new people in, actually more newbies than regulars so had to take it fairly simple. Started out with a nice vigorous warmup, lots of running, plenty of excersises, pushups, situps, starjumps and squat thrusts all to music. Then onto stretching, nice and basic for the newbies, started at the neck and worked down, lots of concentration on the legs.
Then we split into pairs for basic one for one kicking. Very very basic, taught front snap kick, turning (roundhouse) kick, axe kick then a few side kicks, off the rear leg first then a couple of front legs, fair play to the newbies they took to it like ducks to water. I could see the regulars getting bored quite quickly (basics after all) so I got them to up the difficulty by kicking towards each other at the same time which requires good control. All in all worked them quite hard and managed to teach them quite alot in the time. Finished of the class with a few fun, block and counter sequences, still very basic, one partner holds out an arm then the other "blocks" the arm and counters in one smooth movement. The youngsters enjoyed this one smile Lined everybody up at the end, had a quick chat about taekwondo in general, asked the newbies if they'd enjoyed themselves which they had. I always like happy campers, hopefully they'll be back for more next week with all their friends xd
Lesson 2, senior grades: Technical lesson
So seniors, this is a relatively new club so the seniors are only up to 4th kup, which is good as I dont feel comfortable trying to teach people that are getting near to black belt. The rule generally is you can teach people up to two grades below your own but the run up to black belt is so important they need the attention of my instructor.
So we had the regulars, lots of whom graded relatively recently and need to learn their new pattern. We also had this new guy who's 3rd kup in Shotokai (an odd mix of shotokan karate and what seem'd to be kungfu, anybody heard of it? Anyway, the point being the guy is really good at sparring, knows his techniques well, obviously requires a little fine tuning to our way of doing things but no major differences, but things like line work and patterns its back to square one). So as there was only me instructing and quite a lot of people requiring attention, I took people through line work introducing them to the moves they'll need for their next pattern. Fairly straight forward stuff, I was being very nit picky with them as its easier to get them to do it right in the first place than go back and try and correct mistakes later. It was good, there was a marked improvement in their techniques by the end of the lesson, its one of the things I do like about teaching, seeing people improve. Pull off that technique they've been struggling with for ages because of your help smile
Anyway, half the lesson was line work then I split them up into belt groups for actual patterns, luckily enough we had a group of 8th kups(stayed on from the junior lesson) a group of 5th kups, one 4th kup and shotokai guy (I'll give you his name sunny as I cant be asked to keep reffering to him as shotokai guy). I took the 8th and 5th kups whilst I gave the 4th kup the job of taking sunny through the first fundamental excersises (pre pattern patterns as it were, yawn city but you need to know them and be bloody good at them). The 8th kups didn't need to learn a new pattern and it wasn't strictly their lesson so I had them doing their grading pattern and a few before, over and over again, untill they could do it asleep... "just one more time people!" (Hehe, well and maybe one more after that, or after that...). And took the 5th kups through their new pattern, managed to get the sequence of moves down in their heads but I imagine it'll be gone by next training session. Finished off the lesson by getting everybody lined up, pick a pattern that they want to do (out of the ones they've been taught, some people get cheeky an try starting to do blackbelt patterns...) then all do it in their own time, grading sharp. It was nice after two hours of constant talking to just stand at the edge out of peoples view and just watch, all in all they were pretty sharp except for a couple of 5th kups that seemed to have forgotten the pattern they had just graded with.... stressed scream an instructors job is never done....
The end, hopefully we'll do sparring next lesson... and hopefully my teacher will be back as I cant get in there if I'm teaching (bloody insurance...)

You stretch before you warm up? Or is the warm up a given? In all honesty if I was running the class myself I'd have everybody doing it for the full two hours with a quick break in the middle, but I gotta do what my teacher says. Having said that, it helps having the newbies leave after the first lesson otherwise I'd never get anything done with the seniors

well as for ur first post: darkling:

I was pleased with being a 4th kup and we arent ONLY 4th kups! taken a long time to get there, and I know ur higher and nearer black belt, and I understand its easier too teach us because we are 3grades below u but we are happy with out belts!! (speaking for lolajo who is outraged by u reffering to us as "only" 4th kup!

ok the last lesson i did:

well u where there....so whats the point in me posting?
well I will incase there are others interested:

did the junior lesson, and the senior lesson so as too get more done as our lessons are only 1hour long - should be longer, I mean by the time we have warmed up, and stretched...there isnt much time left for the martial art itself....

anyway : last lesson, there where newbies there again like the lesson before,
we started with a simple warm up...jogging, and sprinting lengths of the hall, press ups, half sits, and sit ups, tuck jumps, squat thrusts, that general kind of warm up. we did simple stretching mostly on the legs...as the lesson was going to be kicking

our instructor then split us into two groups darkling took the beginners through simple simple kicks, which they where getting good at as had done before, whilst sir took me and three others through some kicking combinations that involved jumping and landing the two kicks before landing ur feet,, I seem to have a problem with the jumping bit!! (but have started skipping so that should help) I always seem to travel fowards instead of up! lol Anyway theres this one girl who just hasnt grasped tkd yet and she kicked me in the shin gonk anyway after persevering we swapped and went with darkling and sir took some others through the flying kicks, and I was working with a newbie, doing gentle coaching with her kicks! she was really good!!

second lesson was awesome! sir actually gave me some individual attention on my kick and I was actually getting the jump, and therefore the kick better..we where taking a step into it jumping landing a back leg turning kick and then same leg into a side kick then landing!
darkling kept kicking me really hard gonk lol blaugh the girl who hasnt grasped it yet was kind of skipping around flicking her leg out! I find it really hard to tell her what to do, because she doesnt really listen, anyway we spent the entire lesson kicking, in groups of three...two holding kick shields, and one kicking 3nodding was fun...the warm up which i forgot to mention was like the first lesson but harder... 3nodding

our classes consisted of this:

warmups
basics
pad training
kata
more pad training
partner training
then our senseis' interesting moral lessons

hes' very... animated...but still a great sensei

bow to flag, then instructor. kneel.meditate. warmups then forms/combinations
wow.....thats short... then bow to flag, bow to instructor. kneel. meditate, leave dojo....
white- purple have classes monday and wednesday
blue-black have classes on ??? (not there yet)

My instructor, Master Turner, does a "Tiny Tots" class on Tuesdays where children from the ages of 3-6 come in and "train".

This Tuesday, we opened with the opening class ceremonies, as always, and then moved onto a run around the room. We didn't really do any stretching, but that's because the wee ones don't really do enough to need it. I honestly don't know what they were doing because he had me go work with a couple of the older white belts in there. Of course, older is a relative term, considering the two guys I was working with are each about 11 years old. I went over some basic techniques and then moved on to the first two hyungs (forms, kata, whatever) you need to know in Soo Bahk Do. I understand that's it's harder when you first start out and I'm sure I made the same mistakes, but... They try my patience sometimes. Anyway, then Master Turner called us back over, we did the closing class ceremonies, and he held me after for a while to work on the Passai form.

On Thursdays and Sundays, we have normal classes. We open with the opening class ceremonies, of course, and then we'll move onto some warm-ups and stretching excercises. After that, he usually runs us through basic techniques and technique combinations. Next, we'll either work on hyungs or do some work with one-step sparring and self defense. At the end, we wrap up with some conditioning and then close with the closing class ceremonies. Sometimes he'll keep the higher-ranked students a little longer to work on new hyungs, but not always.

Oh, my dojo has classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays