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.

Swimming Ideas' latest training workbook for new and veteran swimming instructors and coaches.Teaching swimming lessons and running a swim team can be difficult. There are so many variables and things to consider when you're teaching. 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 how to swim, 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, and use the general lesson plans in the back. 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.

Discover 60 games that use little or no equipment and that cover all of the essential basics of learning to swim, including breathing, floating, submerging, gliding, kicking and pulling. Explore games and activities that teach them all. Using games and play to teach your child how to swim will not only open their mind to imagination and engagement, but it will help to distract them from the fears and anxieties often associated with the new sensations of being in the water and the expectations that come with learning how to swim. 'I'm Mark Young, a swimming teacher with 30 years experience, and let me tell you, teaching my own three children to swim was a nightmare! They did not want to listen to Dad and just wanted to play. So, I gave up trying to teach them and let them play. Then it hit me. By playing and doing their own thing, they discovered the water for themselves. So I began to weave in some basic swimming skills and elements of swimming lessons into their games and, because it was a game, they were willing participants. Without knowing, they were learning how to swim as part of their play. Use the games and tools in my book and you can do the same. Have fun!'