Swimming is a widely popular sport and activity with great health-related fitness benefits. Yet, a significant percentage of children are unable to swim with any degree of skill—meaning not only are they missing out on health benefits, but they also are at risk when in water. Part of that risk comes from receiving either no instruction or no differentiated instruction. Children receiving swimming lessons are commonly grouped by age or grade, and many lack the basic skills required for their age levels.

Careful and detailed planning is essential for delivering practical, results-based swimming lessons. This book takes the hard work out of lesson planning for swimming teachers by providing 101 swimming lesson plans covering all aspects of swimming. Discover swimming lesson plans for beginners that include every lesson from first entering the pool and building confidence to swimming in deep water. In addition, swimming lesson plans written explicitly for adults cover their every need, from gaining confidence to learning basic strokes. Ensure progress with sequenced lesson plans for each part of front crawl, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly, aimed at beginner, intermediate and advanced swimmers. Each lesson plan also has an assessment grid so that you can monitor and measure the progress of each of your swimmers quickly and easily. These pre-made 30-minute swimming lesson plans are ready to go, leaving you to focus on the individuals in your classes and fine-tune your practice as a successful swimming teacher. 101 Swimming lesson plans for swimming teachers that make a difference.

Updated October of 2019, this is Swimming Ideas' latest training workbook for new and veteran swimming instructors and coaches. In this latest edition, you'll see an all-new format focusing on pictures and key points. There are discussion items to talk about with peers in a group training session, or one-on-one if reviewing with a manager. We learn through visual references and this book is full of custom-drawn illustrations and pictures directly addressing the most important skills in swimming. Teaching swimming lessons and running a swim team can be difficult. There are so many variables and things to consider. Getting new staff and veteran instructors all on the same page can be a struggle. Run your swim program using this book for every member of your staff to teach a standard range of skills and speak the same words. You might have ten children in the water or five adults. Knowing how to communicate, which skills to work on, and how to follow an effective incremental progression is hard. Swimming Ideas is here to help. I've trained hundreds of new staff on how to teach swimming, and have compiled a long list of skills, terms, and techniques to make swimming instruction more effective in a new teacher's hands. Want to teach your 16-year-old novice how to teach a swim lesson so you aren't cringing and biting your nails as you watch? Give them this book to review the discussion items together, and evaluate their understanding with four included worksheets. Not sure how you describe the nuance and importance of using command language in your classes? Use this training workbook and discuss how to be a better communicator. Did you just hire a swim instructor that has never taught a lesson before and doesn't even know what a front glide is? Maybe they've never heard of streamline. Give them a copy of this training workbook and they'll learn the 15 essential swim skills and how to teach them. From language, scripts, pictures, and guides, this training guide has it all. For more information check out www.swimminglessonsideas.com

Teaching swimming is one of the best jobs in the world. Giving adults and children one of the most important life skills is challenging, hugely rewarding and great fun all at the same time. How To Be A Swimming Teacher gives you everything you need. Discover: • the essential qualities that make an outstanding swimming teacher • the equipment needed to teach effective swimming lessons • how to teach the all-important basics such as floating, breathing and submerging • how to plan and prepare swimming lessons that get results • why teaching adults is different and how to approach it • a detailed breakdown of all four basic swimming strokes • over 80 fully illustrated swimming exercises containing diagrams, teaching points and common mistakes Plus many more tools to help you master your profession and deliver outstanding swimming lessons.

Created by aquatic experts and field-tested at YMCAs across the nation, YMCA Swim Lessons stresses a developmental approach that's based on current research in child development, pedagogy, motor learning, and motor control. It involves students actively in the learning process, guiding each child through a process of individual exploration that's conducted in a student-centered, caring atmosphere. Teaching Swimming Fundamentals outlines your responsibilities as a swim instructor and provides the basic knowledge you need to teach aquatics. It helps you understand how children learn, then gives you step-by-step instructions to help you put this knowledge to use.

Discusses the history and techniques of swimming and diving, safety rescue techniques, and skills for a variety of aquatic activities.