Martial arts instructor

In your day-to-day duties you may:

• prepare lesson plans
•  demonstrate warm ups, skills training, and physical conditioning
•  coach students
•  develop individual training programmes
•  observe and assess students, and give them feedback
•  develop and practise your own skills
•  take responsibility for the health and safety of students
•  promote your classes

• knowledge of teaching and the ability to design courses
• excellent verbal communication skills
• the ability to teach pupils how to do something
• customer service skills
• leadership skills
• to be thorough and pay attention to detail
• the ability to work on your own
• the ability to create the best conditions for learning or teaching new things
• to be able to carry out basic tasks on a computer or hand-held device

You can get into this job through:

• a college course
• an apprenticeship

With experience, and a senior instructor award, you could set up your own school or association.

You could become an examiner with a professional sporting association, assessing and grading students of martial arts.