Swim instructor//lesson help?

Question

I just started working at a swim school and have some questions about creative effective ways to teach big arms (freestyle arms) and the other strokes.

lessons are 30 minutes and theres a basic layout

kick

swim

dives

last 5 minutes playtime depending on the age group

also when u do the baby and mom/dad lessons, do u know any good songs.

Answer 1

hokey pokey and row row row your boat

Answer 2

What you need to do is to watch the more experienced instructors.  Its very difficult to teach someone how to teach online.  Watch the instructors - see what words they use, how they demonstrate, what progressions they use, etc.  You can also get the WSI manual from Red Cross.  It has a lot of the basic information in it.

Answer 3

Free style arms- Monster arms( they may splash more than they need to) but they get the basic idea of doing big arms

Legs- We tell the little girls (3-5) to make ballet legs, nice long pointy legs, it seems to work for us.

Backstroke arms- reach for the ceiling.. be behind them and let them hit your hands with theirs as they make the rotation(gets them to reach all the way back)

Breastroke arms- Start with a small scull, slowly get them to start bending their arms, then work on full breastroke arms.

Breastroke kick- I tend to teach elem. backstroke kick first and then go onto breastroke kick once they have mastered elem. backstroke.

Dolphin kick- if you have a large group of kids ask them what there favorite animial is, let each of them swim like their animial, then ask what their fav. aqautic animial is let them swim like it. If there is one who says dolphin use them as the example, if they need a little help you can give pointers, or after the kids have tried it once you can demonstrate. I have found that this is the fastest/easiest way to teach dolphin kick to the 8 and under set.

Parent Child Classes:

People in the pool (tune of wheels on the bus)

The people in the pool go up and down, up and down up and down, the people in the  pool go up and down all day long.

The people in the pool go paddle paddle paddle, paddle paddle paddle, the people in the pool go paddle paddle paddle all day long.

the people in the pool go kick, kick kick...

The people in the pool go (blow bubbles)...

The people in the pool go in and out...

Hello Song

Grace is here today, Grace is here today we all splash our hands because Grace is here today.

Go through all the kids names.