Practicing Prayer?

I'm going to try again to get some feedback in preparation for India: Bottom line--how do you teach prayer? How do you teach private prayer? And more to the point for this course, how do you teach a person to lead prayer in a public worship service?

If this were a context that has a tradition of writing prayers in advance of a worship event, that might simplify the teaching process. But in this case, I strongly suspect that their tradition calls for "extemporaneous" prayer. While I agree with the concept of extemporaneous prayer, I still advocate some planning. I firmly believe--I am convinced-- that God honors such planning. I believe God can and does help us as we plan. And he helps and honors planning even for "extemporaneous" events.

So how does one teach, in a hands-on way, another person how to plan for prayer and still pray extemporaneously?

Please help?
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