This document serves as a comprehensive guide for trainee swim teachers, providing detailed information about teaching swimming and water safety.
Swim Instructor Trainee Resource
1. Components of Assessment
- Water Safety and Survival Skills: Emphasizes safe entries and exits, treading water, rescues, and swimming in clothes. Focuses on energy-conserving survival strokes like backstroke and sidestroke.
- Water Familiarisation, Buoyancy, and Mobility: Covers foundational skills such as blowing bubbles, submersion, floating, and basic mobility activities like gliding and paddling.
- Swimming Strokes: Details techniques for strokes including freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.
2. Teaching Tips for Stroke Development
- Specific guidance for each stroke, highlighting body position, arm and leg movement, and timing.
- Includes survival-focused strokes like survival backstroke and sidestroke.
3. Lesson Planning and Execution
- Trainees must design and evaluate six lesson plans across three focus areas (water familiarisation, safety, and strokes).
- Emphasis on continuous learner progress monitoring, providing feedback, self-evaluation, and modifying lessons based on feedback.
4. Water Safety Programs
- Advocates for school-run programs to ensure all children gain survival swimming and water safety skills, reducing the risk of drowning.
- Highlights the Victorian Water Safety Certificate, requiring students to demonstrate competencies in survival skills, rescue techniques, and swimming 50 meters.
5. Licensing Requirements
- Details processes for obtaining swim teacher licenses (LSV and AUSTSWIM), including completing portfolios, workplace training, and supervisor sign-offs.
- Includes specific tasks like recording teaching evidence, shadow shifts, and preparing sequential lesson plans.
6. Important Teaching Practices
- Encourages keeping students engaged, giving clear instructions, correcting poor technique, and reinforcing positive behaviors.
- Stresses the importance of maintaining safety and student-focused teaching.
7. Checklist for Assessment Preparation
- A breakdown of required skills for each swimming stroke and survival techniques.
- Guidance on teaching strategies, such as chain swimming, manipulations, and maintaining class control.
The document is designed to train and prepare aspiring swimming and water safety instructors, emphasizing skill development, safety, and effective teaching practices.
