Swimmers of all ages love diving under water during their swimming lessons. Children can have so much fun playing in the swimming pool, diving and retrieving toys from a ledge or the bottom of the pool. As swimmers mature and become more comfortable diving to the bottom they can also […]
Teachers
World Wide Swim School holds a collection of helpful articles for techniques and tips on how to teach swimming, for swim teachers.
Floating Tips for Babies – Teaching Tips
Floating is the most important skill in the Learn to Swim process. Floating is the basis of all Learn to Swim skills and gives baby the opportunity to feel their own buoyancy. Once baby feels that fun floating sensation, and that feeling of weightlessness, they will become relaxed and at […]
The Importance of Manipulation -Teaching Tips
When a child is learning to swim, more often than not, it will be a totally new experience. They will be using muscles in a different way and context to how they use them on land for sport and recreational activities. As a swim teacher, how many times have you […]
Weekly Swimming Lessons – Fun, Independence, Skill Building
I love attending weekly swimming lessons with my daughter Harper, who is turning 3 this month. Not only does it give me special one-on-one time with her without any distractions. But it gives me some great inspiration and ideas for my own swimming teaching. This week I particularly enjoyed the […]
How to Ease Crying During a Swimming Lesson
Learning how to swim should be a positive experience, for both parent, and child. Swim Schools should adopt policies that revolve around teaching positive learning techniques. No child should be subjected to a fearful or intimidating environment, when learning how to swim. Aggressively forcing children into swimming activities, such as […]