Learn2Swim Week: Day 7 Swimming teachers must understand their role in providing quality swim lessons. Learn to Swim lessons should ensure the health and safety of children and parents. The following article outlines important factors for swimming instructors to consider. Instructors teaching swimming lessons should ensure the environment they are teaching is safe. They should […]
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A Guide to Teaching Tumble Turns
Why We Teach Tumble TurnsTumble turns are an important skill for young swimmers to master – especially as they start to increase distances and perform repetitive sets of 50m or 100m and beyond in their sessions. This is an important skill for swim teachers and coaches to teach, as it will allow swimmers to keep moving […]
Creating Circuits in Swimming Lesson Plans
Following on from the article last month about circuits in your swim school. Over the years the team at World Wide Swim School (WWSS) have developed countless lesson plans and ideas about how to run effective and efficient swimming lessons to get the best out of swimmers. One of our favourite things to incorporate into […]
Variety in the Swimming Lesson Planning
We recently did a staff training session with the teachers at Laurie Lawrence Swim School about how to create variety in the swimming lesson. This came as a result from feedback we sometimes get at the front desk about children becoming bored with their swimming lessons. The educator in me is slightly defensive because I […]
What is Swimming in Two Planes? – Water Safety Skill
Swimming in two planes is an important water safety skill. When teaching swimming in two planes we marry two skills together, the vertical safety turn and the horizontal swim back to safety. This exercise is important for water safety because children learn to turn in deep water in the middle of the pool and swim […]