[QUOTE][I've found if you do a pre-flight briefing it not only briefs the student on what s/he is to be taught, but also briefs you on what you are about to teach.QUOTE]
Yes, I'm finding this very useful, especially for parts I've not taught yet!
Fortunately our school programmes in proper briefing time and also provide standardised laminated briefing charts that cover a whiteboard; saves a lot of time in writing them up and also means that students get the same briefing from different instructors.
We have some students at the moment operating in pairs; they both get the briefing at the beginning of the detail; then one sits in the back while the other flies. They then swap over at the hold for the repeat of the lesson.
This only works where
a) you have a bulk of students
b) you can stream them for similar abilites within the pairs or they soon get out of sync.
One downside is that not everyone can put up with flying an hour of turning, then sit in the back for another hour of it; sick bag at the ready! (only happened on one trip so far, but I'll be watching out for it in future)
TheOddOne