Horse Riding Instructor Legal, Social & Cultural Technicians
SaveWhat Does a Horse Riding Instructor Do?
Horse riding instructors advise and guide individuals and groups on riding horses. They conduct lessons and teach the techniques of horse riding including stopping, making turns, show-riding and jumping. They motivate their clients and help improve their performance.
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Where Do I Start?
Horse Riding
The techniques involved in horse riding including riding styles and ways to control the horse such as jumping, turning, trotting and stopping.
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Skills You Need to Become a Horse Riding Instructor
Essential Skills
Essential Skills
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EssentialHorse Riding knowledge
The techniques involved in horse riding including riding styles and ways to control the horse such as jumping, turning, trotting and stopping.
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2 booksThe Complete Horse Riding Guide 2021HORSE RIDING FOR BEGINNERS -
EssentialHorse Riding Equipment knowledge
Equipment used for riding horses such as a saddle or stirrups.
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EssentialAdapt Teaching To Target Group skill
Instruct students in the most fitting manner in regards to the teaching context or the age group, such as a formal versus an informal teaching context, and teaching peers as …
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EssentialApply Risk Management In Sports skill
Manage the environment and athletes or participants to minimise their chances of suffering any harm. This includes checking appropriateness of venue and equipment and gathering relevant sport and health history …
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EssentialDemonstrate Professional Attitude To Clients skill
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EssentialDemonstrate When Teaching skill
Present to others examples of your experience, skills, and competences that are appropriate to specific learning content to help students in their learning.
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EssentialGive Constructive Feedback skill
Provide founded feedback through both criticism and praise in a respectful, clear, and consistent manner. Highlight achievements as well as mistakes and set up methods of formative assessment to evaluate …
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EssentialInstruct In Sport skill
Provide appropriate technical and tactical instruction related to the given sport using varied and sound pedagogical approaches to meet the needs of the participants and achieve the desired objectives. This …
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EssentialMaintain Customer Service skill
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EssentialPlan Sports Instruction Programme skill
Provide participants with an appropriate programme of activities to support progression to the required level of expertise in the specified time taking into account relevant scientific and sport-specific knowledge.
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EssentialDevelop Sports Programmes skill
Develop plans and policies for the inclusion of sporting activities and organisations in a community, and for the development of sporting activities for specific target groups.
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EssentialOrganise Sporting Environment skill
Organise people and the environment to achieve desired objectives safely and efficiently.
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EssentialRide Horses skill
Ride horses, and pay attention to ensuring the safety of the horse and rider, and applying proper horseback riding techniques
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Optional Skills (5 of 15 displayed)
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OptionalHorse Anatomy knowledge
The study of the anatomical structure and parts of a horse and how they interact.
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OptionalTeamwork Principles knowledge
The cooperation between people characterised by a unified commitment to achieving a given goal, participating equally, maintaining open communication, facilitating effective usage of ideas etc.
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OptionalApply Teaching Strategies skill
Employ various approaches, learning styles, and channels to instruct students, such as communicating content in terms they can understand, organising talking points for clarity, and repeating arguments when necessary. Use …
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OptionalAssist Clients With Special Needs skill
Aid clients with special needs following relevant guidelines and special standards. Recognise their needs and accurately respond to them if needed.
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OptionalMaintain Working Relationships skill
Ensure effective working relationships with colleagues and others. Maintain them over long periods of time.
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OptionalMotivate In Sports skill
Positively foster athletes and participants' intrinsic desire to carry out the required tasks to fulfill their goals and to push themselves beyond their current levels of skill and understanding.
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OptionalProvide First Aid skill
Administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation or first aid in order to provide help to a sick or injured person until they receive more complete medical treatment.
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OptionalProvide First Aid To Animals skill
Administer emergency treatment to prevent deterioration of the condition, suffering and pain until veterinary assistance can be sought. Basic emergency treatment needs to be done by non-veterinarians prior to first-aid …
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OptionalWork With Different Target Groups skill
Work with a variety of target groups based on age, gender and disability.
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OptionalCare For Horses skill
Provide care of horses.
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OptionalPerform Self-assessment skill
Effectively, regularly and systematically reflect on own actions, performance, and attitudes, and make necessary adjustments, seeking professional development opportunities to plug knowledge and practice gaps in identified areas.
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OptionalPromote Balance Between Rest And Activity skill
Provide information about the role of rest and regeneration in the development of sport performance. Foster rest and regeneration by providing appropriate ratios of training, competition and rest.
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OptionalProvide Care For Horses skill
Provide care for horses includes cleaning, housing, preparing horses and ponies for riding, fixating and leading horeses, taking into account the safety regulations for horeses and people, specific requirements of …
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OptionalTrain Horses skill
Harness, dress and train horses as per the instructions provided. Take into account the age and breed of the horse and the preparation purposes.
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OptionalTransport Horses skill
Transport horses using safely special vehicles for horse transportation; lead horses to vehicles taking into account the safety of people and horses.
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