- Section #8559
- Dates:
- Class begins February 20 and ends June 12, 2009
- Last day to add: Feb. 27
- Last day to drop without notation: March 14
- Last day to drop: May 15
- 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. The Red Cross is releasing new WSI content as this class begins. This class will use the new materials as soon as they are available. Materials can be pre-ordered beginning Jan. 27, 2009 from Staywell.
This class is only required to cover the WSI content. 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 get the instructor certificate.
- 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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This course will utilize instructor handouts until such time as we can obtain the new Red Cross Water Safety Instructor materials. Materials can be pre-ordered via the web as early as Jan 27. Orders will ship in late February. Students can order directly from Shop Staywell. Cost is $51.95 plus tax and shipping.
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 |
| 2/20 |
Introduction and orientation, overview of Red Cross Program, revisions in LGT, ICT lecture, FIT manual |
| 2/27 |
Hydrodynamics, Block plans, lesson plans, front crawl drills, milk jug drills for teaching basic front crawl skills; plus swimming pre-test |
| 3/6 |
Class organization, back crawl and elementary backstroke drills for teaching. Teaching assignment #1, Self-Evaluation on teaching assignment |
| 3/13 |
Motor Learning
Theory, sidestroke, over-arm sidestroke, trudgen, breaststroke. Teaching assignment #2 |
| 3/20 |
Starts and turns, inverted breaststroke, butterfly. Teaching assignment #3 |
| 3/27 |
Cultural Diversity, diving, disabilities, IPAP - BRING A DOLL TO CLASS! Teaching Assignment #4 |
| 4/3 |
REAL STUDENTS! Games and Water Activities, Longfellow's Whale Tales, Community Water Safety Program, Water Safety Aide Program |
| 4/10 |
REAL STUDENTS! Safety Training for Swim Coaches, AQUACKtic Program, Mask, Fins, Snorkel, and surface dives. Teaching Assignment #5 |
| 4/17 |
SPRING RECESS. |
| 4/24 |
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. |
| 5/1 |
WSI skills testing, WSI Packets, WSI written test, Old study Questions, New Study Questions |
| 5/8 |
Begin LGI with new revisions for LGT. LGI Lesson Plan Format, LGT Study Questions (2002) |
| 5/15 |
LGI Continued in the water (Last day to drop with a W instead of a letter grade.) |
| 5/22 |
LGI First Aid - with new Oxygen administration segment; LGI Written test on rescue skills & first aid |
| 5/29 |
LGI CPR |
| 6/5 |
LGI CPR concludes and includes AED |
| 6/12 |
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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