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Hi Vianna,
I taught beginning figure painting at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for 12 years. Although it wasn't a "color class" , we spent a whole lot of time talking about color. I agree totally with your approach. I also agree with Sharon that everybody should use the same color palette, no matter the medium.
One thing that I made my students do, that really seemed to help them, was to paint colors charts. Of course it was college, so homework was expected, but I kept it really simple. One of the hardest thing for beginners is mixing fleshtones and seeing the nuances. I sort of did a hybrid of John Howard Sanden's and Richard Schmid's charts. They had to individually mix each yellow with each red on thier palette and progressively add white until they got very light tints. Then they had to mute all the mixtures with cerulean blue, just enough to mute, not to change the hue! The whole exercise was worth it just to teach them how to mute a color.
It was the one thing that opened everybody's eyes to the variety of mixtures possible.
Teaching is so much fun and I hope you have a great time with this one!
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