- Section #8559
- Dates:
- Class begins February 15 and ends June 6, 2008
- Last day to add: Feb. 22
- Last day to drop without notation: March 8
- Last day to drop: May 9
- Class Meets: Fridays 5:30 to 6:30 in PE 214 and from 6:31- 9:42 pm at the Pool
- Link to Virtual Classroom for supplemental resource materials
- Mailform to send your instructor a message
- Resources for the Virtual Classroom (how to use the course management system known as Moodle)
Course Description
This class is designed to give you a Red Cross certificate as a Water Safety Instructor r.2003. That is all that is required for the semester. However, there will be opportunity for students to get additional certificates if they are willing to put in the extra hours. These extra certificates include:
- Lifeguard Training - 2006 revisions
- Lifeguarding Instructor r.2006 (leads to First Aid, CPR and AED instructor). You must have current LGT and CPR, and AED cards to do this.
- Waterfront Lifeguard Instructor - You must have current LGT and Waterfront LGT cards to do this.
- Lifeguard Management - 2002
- Hydro-Tone Water Fitness Specialist through Hydro-Tone Fitness Systems, Inc.
Required Textbook Packet:
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Text: The Water Safety Instructor's Candidate Kit provides Water Safety Instructor (WSI) candidates with everything they need to plan and conduct courses within the American Red Cross Swimming and Water Safety program, including Parent and Child Aquatics, Learn-to-Swim courses and water safety presentations. The kit includes the Water Safety Instructor’s Manual, which explains motor learning principles, directions for course planning and detailed teaching progressions with convenient cross references. The manual is packaged with a CD-ROM of instructor resources, including a library of teaching activities, games and drills, and video clips of skills which WSIs can view for future reference. The kit also includes the Swimming and Water Safety Manual, the Water Safety Today Handbook, and two Learn-to-Swim participant Booklets.
Staywell Order #: 651311 - Water Safety Instructor's Candidate Kit can be purchased at Red Cross offices. Call ahead to see if they are in stock.
Optional Red Cross Textbooks used for LGI Certifications: Lifeguard Instructor's Manual r.2006 |
Also Required at each class: textbooks, paper, pen/pencil, swimsuit, goggles, towel.
No watches and no jewelry are allowed during the LGT portion of the class or when teaching children.
Also Required at each class: textbooks, paper, pen/pencil, swimsuit, goggles, towel.
| Date |
Material Covered |
| 2/15 |
Introduction and orientation, overview of Red Cross Program, revisions in LGT, ICT lecture, FIT manual |
| 2/22 |
Hydrodynamics, Block plans, lesson plans, front crawl drills, milk jug drills for teaching basic front crawl skills; plus swimming pre-test |
| 2/29 |
Class organization, back crawl and elementary backstroke drills for teaching. Teaching assignment #1, Self-Evaluation on teaching assignment |
| 3/7 |
Motor Learning
Theory, sidestroke, over-arm sidestroke, trudgen, breaststroke. Teaching assignment #2 |
| 3/14 |
Starts and turns, inverted breaststroke, butterfly. Teaching assignment #3 |
| 3/21 |
Cultural Diversity, diving, disabilities, IPAP - BRING A DOLL TO CLASS! Teaching Assignment #4 |
| 3/28 |
REAL STUDENTS! Games and Water Activities, Longfellow's Whale Tales, Community Water Safety Program, Water Safety Aide Program |
| 4/4 |
REAL STUDENTS! Safety Training for Swim Coaches, AQUACKtic Program, Mask, Fins, Snorkel, and surface dives. Teaching Assignment #5 |
| 4/11 |
SPRING RECESS. |
| 4/18 |
Fitness Principles, Training principles, water aerobics. Begin Skills testing and buddy coaching
Workout form, body measurement worksheet, body composition worksheet, list of deep water moves, common flexibility tests,
and standards for Sit and Reach Test, Hydro-Tone Muscle Strength/Endurance Tests, Hydro-Tone test normatives, list
of jugging drills, list of shallow water moves, Shallow Water Circuit, Muscle Balance notes. |
| 4/25 |
WSI skills testing, WSI Packets, WSI written test, Old study Questions, New Study Questions |
| 5/2 |
Begin LGI with new revisions for LGT. LGI Lesson Plan Format, LGT Study Questions (2002) |
| 5/9 |
LGI Continued in the water (Last day to drop with a W instead of a letter grade.) |
| 5/16 |
LGI First Aid - with new Oxygen administration segment; LGI Written test on rescue skills & first aid |
| 5/23 |
LGI CPR |
| 5/30 |
LGI CPR concludes and includes AED |
| 6/6 |
LGI CPR and AED Written Tests |
Additional weekend workshops may be scheduled to cover the following:
- Waterfront Lifeguard Instructor
- Hydro-Tone Specialty Workshop for water aerobics
- Make-ups as needed for water skills and written tests
Additional Resources for this class
Videos of the nine swimming strokes you are expected to know.
Swimming Science Journal contains Swimming Science Abstracts (research), coaches forum, Swimming Science Bulletin, and How Champions Do It (pictures of the competitive strokes by world class swimmers.
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