Water Safety Instructor

Water Safety Instructor - PE 243
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:

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.

Special Note: The Red Cross released new WSI materials in Spring 2004 and this class will be teaching those materials and issuing the new certificate. The new Red Cross Lifeguard Training program released in Jan. 2007 will be used for all Lifeguard Training content.

Required Red Cross Textbooks:

WSI Packet Stock #651311 - Available from the bookstore or the local Red Cross office. Packet contains 4 books:

Water Safety Handbook
Raffy Learns to Swim
Swimming and Water Safety
Water Safety Instructor Manual

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.

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:

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.

Date Last modified 17 February 2007
Linda Delzeit-McIntyre

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