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Weekly Horse Judging Clinic

In this weekly clinic, we will work on mastering the skills needed for horse judging; including breed and anatomy identification, understanding disposition as well as speaking confidence and clarity for oral reasons.
Mrs. Katee Mcspadden
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4.9
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What's included

7 live meetings
6 hrs 25 mins in-class hours
Homework
learners will be given homework each week in the form of readings, memorization and practice of oral and written reasons and visuals to better prepare them for judging classes of horses. Learners who spend an average of 30 minutes a day working on horse judging will do much better at the competition.
Assessment
learners will be assessed through oral and written tests. They will be placed via top scores, just like in a competition setting.

Class Experience

US Grade 7 - 9
In this seven week course, I will help learners improve their skills in horse judging. We will focus on conformation and disposition, balance, horse terminology, horse anatomy and physiology, understanding the "science" behind taking reasons notes correctly, writing reasons and placings as well as build our confidence in public speaking through presentation or oral reasons.

Each week we will spend time on a different topic and learners will have homework that I will check the following week through both oral and written (kahoot style) tests and quizzes. The goal of this class is for learners to score highly in their respective horse judging competitions and improve their public speaking skills. 

I like to teach as if we were in person, lots of engagement with one another through sharing experiences, questions and demonstrations. We are in this together and will help each other build our strengths. I am relaxed, but organized. I like to have fun, but stay on track as well. 

Learners are expected to be involved in horse judging, hippology and/or quiz bowl teams or individually through FFA , 4H or horse associations to be enrolled in this class. 

Week 1 - introductions and horse terminology/anatomy identification and games 
week 2 - conformation and disposition, balance, physiology, unsoundness and blemishes
week 3 - beginning reasons - how to take correct notes and written reasons. descriptive words. Learners will be expected to memorize basic reasons
week 4- more reasons and placing practice. Organizing notes to allow for ease of presentation. Top and bottom pair reasoning.
week 5- test on information learned from weeks 1 and 2, scoring on reasons presentations
week 6- judging classes of horses, more oral reasons
week 7 - test on prior 6 weeks, judging horses and oral reasons.

Learning Goals

learners will build their confidence in presentation of oral reasons, what skills it takes to be a good "judge", improve their knowledge of horses and vocabulary of the horse.
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Supply List
learners will need a notebook specifically for horse judging. Flip top steiner style notebooks are ideal for taking notes for reasons. Big enough to be detailed and put a class of notes on each page.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
  • kahoot
Joined July, 2021
4.9
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I am limiting my outschool teaching this spring to some horse judging sections. 

I am primarily running the marketing department for my family business, but LOVE horse judging so I am taking some time to add back in a few sections when I can.

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$65

for 7 classes

1x per week, 7 weeks
55 min
Completed by 6 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 12-15
3-6 learners per class

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