Spring 2007 - Section # 8559 Course Syllabus |
Instructor: Linda Delzeit-McIntyre
Class times: Fridays 5:30 - 9:42 pm at the Pool
Class 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:
Required Red Cross Textbooks:
No watches and no jewelry are allowed during the LGT portion of the class or when teaching children.
Lecture Recording
Link - see instructor for id/password to log in
Date | Material Covered |
2/16 | Introduction and orientation, overview of Red Cross Program, revisions in LGT, ICT lecture, FIT manual |
2/23 | Hydrodynamics, Block plans, lesson plans, front crawl drills, milk jug drills for teaching basic front crawl skills; plus swimming pre-test |
3/2 | Class organization, back crawl and elementary backstroke drills for teaching. Teaching assignment #1, Self-Evaluation on teaching assignment |
3/9 | Motor Learning Theory, sidestroke, over-arm sidestroke, trudgen, breaststroke. Teaching assignment #2 |
3/16 | Starts and turns, inverted breaststroke, butterfly. Teaching assignment #3 |
3/23 | Cultural Diversity, diving, disabilities, IPAP - BRING A DOLL TO CLASS! Teaching Assignment #4 |
3/30 | REAL STUDENTS! Games and Water Activities, Longfellow's Whale Tales, Community Water Safety Program, Water Safety Aide Program |
4/6 | REAL STUDENTS! Safety Training for Swim Coaches, AQUACKtic Program, Mask, Fins, Snorkel, and surface dives. Teaching Assignment #5 |
4/13 | SPRING RECESS. |
4/20 | 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. |
4/27 | WSI skills testing, WSI Packets, WSI written test, Old study Questions, New Study Questions |
5/4 | Begin LGI with new revisions for LGT. LGI Lesson Plan Format, LGT Study Questions (2002) |
5/11 | LGI Continued in the water (Last day to drop with a W instead of a letter grade.) |
5/18 | LGI First Aid - with new Oxygen administration segment; LGI Written test on rescue skills & first aid |
5/25 | LGI CPR |
6/1 | LGI CPR concludes and includes AED |
6/8 | LGI CPR and AED Written Tests |
Additional weekend workshops may be scheduled to cover the following:
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.
Date Last modified 17 February 2007
Linda Delzeit-McIntyre