Study Questions for WSI Written Final
 

1. How do you establish your home chapter?
2. What is a 5736?
3. What are the requirements for filling out a course record and submitting it?
4. When do you need to show the Red Cross Swimming and Diving Video?
5. When do you teach safety information and techniques?
6. As a WSI, what can you teach?
7. What are the minimum age requirements for all classes you can teach?
8. What is the goal of each of the courses you can teach?
9. What is the time requirements for each of the courses you can teach?
10. What are the passing requirements for each of the courses you can teach?
11. What is the minimum passing grade on any Red Cross written test?
12. What skills are included in each of the progressive swimming levels?
13. What is the duration of the IPAP class sessions?
14. Who is eligible to teach Safety Training for Swim Coaches?
15. What can Water Safety Aides do?
16. What is the minimum depth for teaching diving?
17. What is the difference between a block plan and a lesson plan?
18. What are you allowed to do when teaching strokes to disabled persons?
19. Understand each of the following terms:
    • kinesthetic awareness
    • wave drag
    • lift forces
    • law of acceleration
    • aerobics
    • mainstreaming
    • F.I.T. principles
    • target heart rate
    • warning signals for over-exercising
    • swimming etiquette
    • sculling
    • inertia
20. Know the various methods of teaching.