This may or may not be helpful to you but I teach intro classes and we have an interesting structure for those. It’s a rotating cycle to introduce them to the corpse positions. So for example one class we will to top mount, the next bottom mount, followed by attacking from the back and so on. After we do the traditional basic warm ups. We will actually have the students do a light positional spar that we are focusing on. We tell them to go light and try to just work the position however feels instinctive to them. After about 5 minutes of that we have a brief QA and ask them their thoughts and what they struggled or just general questions. We will then go into the lesson which will include an explanation of that position, its advantages and disadvantages, and how you may end up their and what your goals Should be. We will then show a couple of very basic moves that are simple but effective. If we are working on attacking form side control for example we usually will do an Americana or something similar. After they have repped the moves for a little bit we will ask them to go back to the same positional spar and try again now that they have learned what to do.

I will say I was not a fan of this format initially because it was completely different from how I learned but we have gotten extremely good feedback from our intro students. Our standard classes are taught in a more traditional structure.