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Course: |
HPE 140
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Title: | Water Safety Instructor |
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Long Title: | Water Safety Instructor |
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Course Description: | Prepares students to become certified by the American Red Cross (ARC) as a Water Safety Instructor (WSI). Enables students to develop skills for teaching infant and preschool aquatics, Levels 1-7 in the Learn to Swim Program, Community Water Safety, and Water Safety Instructor Aide. Focuses on teaching people with special needs and planning and conducting safe and effective swim lessons. |
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Min Credit: | 2 |
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Status Notes: | Was PER 150, changed 1/17/13 effective 201410 CFE |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Review hydrodynamic principles.
2. Discuss motor learning theories.
3. Describe elements of course design.
4. Develop and evaluate block and lesson plans for swimming skills and practice teaching.
5. Discuss class organization techniques and skills checklists.
6. Review and practice progression skills for all swimming strokes.
7. Practice and demonstrate teaching and coaching skills for all swimming strokes.
8. Discuss and practice progression skills for diving.
9. Practice and demonstrate teaching and coaching skills for diving.
10. Review issues and communication skills for cultural diversity.
11. Discuss safety and emergency procedures in and around water.
12. Describe how to customize swim lessons for persons with disabilities.
13. Review and practice progression skills for starts and turns.
14. Practice and demonstrate teaching and coaching skills for starts and turns.
15. Discuss fitness and conditioning principles for swimming.
16. Review teaching techniques for infant and preschool aquatic skills.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Introduction to pre-course session
a. Pre-course written test.
b. Pre-course skill test.
II. Hydrodynamics
a. Principles of hydrodynamics.
b. Streamline position and drag effects.
III. Motor Learning Theories
IV. Elements of course design
a. Developing block plans and lesson plans.
b. Class organization.
c. Using skills checklists.
d. Evaluation of lesson plans for practice teaching.
V. Swimming strokes and skills
a. Introduction to all of the swimming strokes.
b. Experimenting with hydrodynamic principles.
c. Teaching progressions for the swimming strokes.
d. Paired practice and coaching.
e. Stroke evaluation, analysis, and refinement.
VI. Diving skills
a. Introduction to diving skills.
b. Diving progressions from deck.
c. Springboard diving progressions.
d. Review diving safety rules and techniques.
VII. Introduction of Cultural Diversity Exercise
a. Communication skills
b. Review of cultural diversity issues
VIII. Safety, rescue and emergency procedures
a. Review teaching progressions for safety and rescue skills.
b. Rescue breathing.
c. Spinal injury rescue techniques and management.
d. Risk management.
e. Incorporating rescue breathing and CPR into the Learn to Swim Program.
IX. Customizing for persons with disabilities
a. Customizing for adult learners.
b. Disabilities simulation exercises.
X. Swimming starts
a. Introduce the grab and backstroke start.
b. Teaching progressions of grab and backstroke start.
XI. Swimming turns
a. Introduce the flip and speed turns.
b. Teaching progressions of flip and speed turns.
XII. Fitness and conditioning principles
a. Fitness components.
b. Customizing with games and water activities.
c. Training principles for conditioning and competition.
d. Safety training for swim coaches.
XIII. Infant and preschool aquatic skills
a. Infant and preschool aquatic safety issues.
b. Review of infant and preschool aquatic skills.
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