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All Access Membership
- Newsletter emails
- Monthly Lesson Plans
- Mentorship Meetings
- Online course: Teaching Swimming
- Online course: Level Structure
- Skill Sheets: how to teach essential swim skills
- Lesson Plans: Parent Tot Days 1-4
- Lesson Plans: Parent Tot Repeatable for beginners
- Lesson Plans: Parent Tot Repeatable for advanced
- Lesson Plans: Guppies, Repeatable
- Lesson Plans: Levels 1-4; Days 1-4 each
- Teaching Swimming Workbook PDF
- Lesson Coordinator Handbook PDF
- How to Create Fun and Effective eBooks
Individuals
A single person can access online courses, documents, and a files.
Agencies & Teams
Every staff member can access online courses, documents, and files
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Membership will include a login for www.swimminglessonsideas.com with all material stored in the the online courses.
Membership Includes:
- Teaching Swimming Online Course
- Teaching Swimming Year 1 Refresher Online Course
- Level Structure Online Course
- Developmental Swim Coaching Online Course
- Weekly Mentorship Meetings on Zoom
- One hour each week for questions, updates, and guidance
- A community of like-minded Aquatic Professionals
- Essential Swim Skills Tutorial Video Course
- Teaching Swimming Book PDF
- Lesson Coordinator Handbook PDF
- Monthly Lesson Plans
- Visual Skill Sheets: quick reference guides for vital swimming skills of all levels (12 pages) PDFs
- SwimSheets: custom hand-drawn progressions for level agnostic skills (Underwater and Glides, Crawls and Breathing, Breaststroke, Butterfly, Refining Freestyle) PDFs
- General Lesson Plans: Levels 1-4, PDFs
- Weekly Lesson Plans: Parent Tot (6 weeks). PDFs
- Weekly Lesson Plans: Level 1 (4 weeks). PDFs
- Guppies: Games & Goofiness
- Weekly Lesson Plans: Level 2 (Two 4-week progressions). PDFs
- Weekly Lesson Plans: Level 3 (4 weeks). PDFs
- Weekly Lesson Plans: Level 4 (4 weeks). PDFs
- Swim America Stations Lesson Plans (10 stations, 14 sheets). PDFs
- How to Create Fun and Effective Swim Games eBook PDF
- How to Create Fun and Effective Developmental Swim Practices eBook PDF
*Team members get access to everything and can download or view it with their own accounts.
Membership gives access to all courses, documents, videos, mentorship, and updates.
Lesson Program Tools:
Training tools
Workbooks:
- Teaching Swimming
Online courses:
- Teaching Swimming
- Level Structure
- Annual updates for returning seasonal staff
- Essential swim skills guide
Mentorship:
- Weekly mentorship meetings for Aquatic Professionals to share experiences and learn.
Lesson Plans
Daily lesson plans for:
- Parent Tot
- Guppies
- Level 1
- Level 2
- Level 3
- Level 4
Skill sheets for:
- Underwater and Glides
- Streamline
- Position 11
- Front Glides
- Back Glides
- Crawls and Breathing
- Refined Freestyle
- Breaststroke Arms and Kick
- Breaststroke Drills and Progressions
- Breaststroke
- Butterfly
- Open Turns
- Flip Turns
Administration
Lesson Coordinator Handbook for training supervisors
Level evaluation templates
Optional website: [yourname].swimlessons.pro for online progress, tracking, and operations.
Printable 1-sheet template for skill tracking
Level Complete Certificates
Master Affinity Publisher files for personal branding.
Agency one-sheet information:
Training Tools:
Online courses:
Course Content
Course Content
Workbooks:
Teaching Swimming Book PDF
While the online course has all of the same information and more, you can use the print book PDF to view exclusive discussion questions and quizzes to better build your swimming knowledge.
Membership includes the online course as well as the full PDF to the print training workbook.
View the book on your favorite tablet or phone, or printed out the old-fashioned way.
Need the book bound with professional printing?
Lesson Coordinator Handbook PDF
Prepare your management staff and yourself for running swim lesson training classes. This book is designed for Aquatic Professionals and their middle-management staff.
Follow our block plans for an in-person swim instructor training course using the Teaching Swimming online course and workbook. This Lesson Coordinator handbook will give you everything you need to conduct your class and train new hires to teach fun and effective lessons.
View the book on your favorite tablet or phone, or printed out the old-fashioned way.
Need the book bound with professional printing?
Lesson Plans:
Over 50 double-sided lesson plans. Repeatable plans for Parent Tot and Guppies, daily lesson plans for levels, and complex skill sheets to break down and do drills and activities for each of the essential swimming skills.
You and your staff can use these robust and proven digital lesson plans as training guides or in-water sheets to help ensure your lessons are fun and effective.
Recommend you print on indestructible Terra-slate paper.
Daily Lesson Plans:
Lesson plans for each level that can be used in a cycle of 4 days at a time. Follow Day 1 – 4 and repeat.
Skill Sheets:
Teach or learn a specific swimming skill.
Create your own swim games.
Follow this formula for creating your own swimming games and challenges. The process is the same. Use this book to get ideas and learn the step-by-step process I take to make new games and challenges for our swim program.
Coach beginner swimmers with fun and effective instruction.
This is the distilled guide to how I create my developmental swim practices. After coaching full time for 11 years, I’ve refined the process into this repeatable format.
Learn how to use short distances and challenges to make the most out of your swimming program.
Get beginner swimmers competing quickly while retaining the love of swimming!