Teaching Strategy, Live 90-Minute Zoom Class for American Mahjong Teachers with Lara and Jillian Krohne of Mahj-el Tov

Live on Zoom, Thursday, September 10, 2026, 7:00 PM ET (90 minutes).

You can teach the rules. You can teach the card. Then a student who knows both sits down, stares at her rack, and freezes.

Teaching strategy is a different job than teaching mechanics, and almost nobody trains you for it. Rules have right answers you can point to. Strategy has judgment, and judgment is hard to hand somebody. Most of us end up doing what was done to us: we play the hand out loud and hope some of it sticks.

Lara and Jillian Krohne of Mahj-el Tov both teach strategy, and they teach it differently. In this session they put their actual methods side by side: how each of them introduces hand selection, when they bring defense in, and what they do with the student who has read every guide and still can't commit to a hand.

Bring a student you're stuck on. There's live Q&A and this is the room to use it.

What we cover:

• How to teach hand selection without handing over the answer
• When a student is ready for defense, and what happens when you introduce it too early
• Talking through a decision so the reasoning transfers, not just the play
• The questions that move a student further than an explanation does
• What to do with the player who knows the rules cold and still can't pick a hand

A few things worth knowing:

• One live 90-minute session on Zoom with Lara and Jillian
• Built for teachers and instructors, not for players
• The Zoom recording, so you can rewatch anything you want to revisit
• A follow-up PDF that pulls the key takeaways together in one place

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