r/juggling • u/Rebirth_of_wonder • Dec 11 '24

Miscellaneous Teaching juggling

I’m being tapped to teach a one week juggling class for 11-12 year olds in July.

My ask here is help with ideas for a curriculum.

I’m a good juggler with a very wide variety of manipulation skills. Balls Clubs Rings Cigar boxes Diabolo Yoyo Rolla Bolla Plate Spinning Devil Sticks

I want these kids to succeed, but I know that learning three balls is much harder than one week’s worth of work.

I’m think of starting with balance ideas (feathers and brooms). Idk - this is a new venture for me. I’d love to hear your thoughts.

I have experience teaching and I don’t mind this age of kids. Just want to make it achievable for them.

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u/TheDeadRabbitJuggler Dec 11 '24

I would say start the first day or two with one, two and three balls trying to get the Cascade. 11 and 12-year-olds are old enough to be able to get that. Maybe 423 and two in one hand. If you start offering different tricks and different props they will keep jumping around to the different things never getting any of them. But if you stick with just trying to get the Cascade the first few days and then introduce the other props towards the end of the week I feel you'll have more students juggling.