Teaching Swimming Workbook and Online Course
Swimming Ideas has three pillars of training:
Lesson Plans
Workbooks
Online Courses
Today we’re focusing on two:
Let’s start with the Teaching Swimming Workbook v4:
What do you get?
3 sections of information.
- Blue: Essential Swim Skills
- Pictures and guides on what the core swimming skills are for beginner and competitive swimming
- Progressions and scripts for teaching those essential skills
- Green: How to Teach
- Method and delivery of instruction
- How to talk to swimmers
- How to organize your class
- How to setup your classes
- How to leverage tools like toys, platforms, and floats
- Giving feedback:
- How to get results using your words
- How to frame or structure your lessons
- Method and delivery of instruction
- Purple: How to hand Parent Tot, Guppies, and use Lesson Plans
- Handling harder lessons
- Parent Tot
- Guppies
- Going underwater: scoopin vs dunking
- Answering administrative questions
- Move ups
- Tests
- Evaluations
- Handling harder lessons
How is this a Learning Plan?
Teaching Swimming Blue and Green sections are you bread and butter to awesome swim instruction. They are the kickboards and fins of a fun practice.
Here is a preview of the Teaching Swimming Workbook BLUE section:
To recap:
The PDF version of the Teaching Swimming workbook.
Print it.
Use the digital resource online.
Share it with you or your staff.
Color-coded sections for easy reference:
Blue sections are the essential swim skills.
Learn how to teach each of the essential swim skills with tips and guidance related to each one.
Lean what to do, and what not to do.
Beyond essential skills, learn HOW to teach.
We teach you how to earn trust through repeated honest, how to remove “okay” at the end of your sentences and explain why it erodes your authority.
We want you and your staff to teach high quality swimming lessons with a few simple tips.
PDF = unlimited downloads and prints.
You can take our PDF and print it as many times as you need.
Are you training a large staff and have the printing resources to provide everyone with their own training workbook? Do it!
Print a copy of the Teaching Swimming workbook for each of your pools and use them as a reference.
Worksheets and Discussion sections to further learning
Throughout the workbook are pages for quizzing your knowledge and asking important questions that will help you choose how to be a better teacher.
In the back of the book are all the answers.
Learn what NOT to do
Sprinkled throughout the skills and lessons are sections on Common Mistakes, and examples of POOR swimming technique.
Sometimes we learn best from seeing failure, from experiencing it, and from seeing examples of what you shouldn’t see.
We want to give you every opportunity to be a great swimming teacher.
But what about the online course?
It is awesome.
Course Content
The online course serves two purposes:
- To teach you things; give you information that matches what is in the printable PDF or print Workbook
- Serve as a reference that you can return to for training, guidance, or give you ideas on how to tackle a difficult swimmer.
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- 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.
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Every staff member can access online courses, documents, and files