3. Assign homework
All good teachers know learning should not be confined to the classroom, and that is why they assign homework.
Homework allows students to learn jiu-jitsu outside of their gyms and familiarizes them with the best instructors and websites for learning the art.
Because the overwhelming majority of your students will be working adults or students who have already been loaded down with work, homework should be quick and easy. Written homework should be entirely avoided, unless you want to be correcting papers into the wee hours of the night.
Homework should reinforce what students have learned or introduce them to what they will be taught. If you are going to teach ankle locks tomorrow, ask students to watch a video you have chosen on ankle locks. If you have shown them one escape from the mount, ask them to review mount-escape videos.
There is no need for long-winded, boring exercises. The goal of homework should simply be to encourage students to think about jiu-jitsu outside of the gym.
4. Encourage note-taking
Many studies show that note-taking helps learning.
For example, according to a paper from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching:
“The act of note-taking also assists the learner in generating and semantically processing information (essentially, helps the learner think about course content in such a way to better understand it upon later review), in addition to facilitating and strengthening the internal connections between ideas . . . ”
Many jiu-jitsu instructors also promote note-taking. My former instructor, Professor Mark Mullen, told me in a Facebook PM that notes helped him remember his techniques.
“I made notes that I rarely read…but the act if writing them helps cement the technique in my memory.”
Why not take advantage of these benefits and encourage (if not require) your students to write while you teach?
It will help them learn and give them a handy resource they can use when they forget a technique.
