The Joy of Aquatics

The final week of the Top Teaching Tips Series is all about behaviour.  There is very little behaviour training provided in accredited courses.  How do we know how to handle, manage, cope with all the different behaviours in our classes? This final episode of the series discusses the importance of time management.  Not planning enough for a lesson can mean you are scrambling at the end to find something to do.  Keep them occupied with something meaningful that will progress their skills.  Bored children will act out!

The final week of the Top Teaching Tips Series is all about behaviour.  There is very little behaviour training provided in accredited courses.  How do we know how to handle, manage, cope with all the different behaviours in our classes? Today's episode discusses how our language and choice of words impacts children's performance and behaviours.  Not only in the literal sense, but also in terms of following up with consequences to boundary pushing, and building trust by ensuring your words match your actions.

The final week of the Top Teaching Tips Series is all about behaviour.  There is very little behaviour training provided in accredited courses.  How do we know how to handle, manage, cope with all the different behaviours in our classes? Today's episode discusses taking students one at time and how it impacts their behaviour.

The final week of the Top Teaching Tips Series is all about behaviour.  There is very little behaviour training provided in accredited courses.  How do we know how to handle, manage, cope with all the different behaviours in our classes? Today's episode highlights the importance of setting boundaries.

The final week of the Top Teaching Tips Series is all about behaviour.  There is very little behaviour training provided in accredited courses.  How do we know how to handle, manage, cope with all the different behaviours in our classes? Today's episode highlights the importance of building relationships.

Top Teaching Tips Series Returns with a week about the science of swimming. Today's episode discusses making the smallest changes to have the biggest impact on learners and their aquatic skills.

Top Teaching Tips Series Returns with a week about the science of swimming. Today's episode discusses how to teach breath control for greatest impact on swimmers and their skills.

Top Teaching Tips Series Returns with a week about the science of swimming. Today's episode discusses buoyancy and factors that affect it.

Top Teaching Tips Series Returns with a week about the science of swimming. Today's episode discusses different ways to teach floating.

Top Teaching Tips Series Returns with a week about the science of swimming. Today's episode discusses gravity.

Top Teaching Tips Series Returns with a week about safety. Today's episode goes over some common and uncommon entries and exits.

Top Teaching Tips Series returns with a week about safety. Today's episode discusses open water settings and keys to teaching in those environment.

Top Teaching Tips Series returns with a week about safety. Today's episode discusses how and where in our programs we teach survival backstroke.

Top Teaching Tips Series returns with a week about safety. Today's episode discusses including parents in the safety activities you plan.

Top Teaching Tips Series returns with a week about safety. Today's episode highlights why we should teach a signal for help with a fist.

Top Teaching Tips Series returns with a week about teaching diving. Today's episode discusses the highly important diving rules.

Top Teaching Tips Series returns with a week about teaching diving. Today's episode discusses crouch and standing dives.

Top Teaching Tips Series returns with a week about teaching diving. Today's episode discusses kneeling dives.

Top Teaching Tips Series returns with a week about teaching diving. Today's episode discusses seated dives.

Top Teaching Tips Series returns with a week about teaching diving. Today's episode discussed some activities you can teach to assist students with their diving.

Top Teaching Tips Series returns with a week about water familiarisation. Today's episode discusses gliding before kicking.

Top Teaching Tips Series returns with a week about water familiarisation. Today's episode discusses the importance of teaching sculling.

Top Teaching Tips Series returns with a week about water familiarisation. Today's episode discusses the implication of refraction of light through the water for beginners.

Top Teaching Tips Series returns with a week about water familiarisation. Today's episode discusses submersion: What's the difference nose in first or chin in first?

Top Teaching Tips Series returns with a week about water familiarisation. Today's episode discusses the implications of the sound of water.

Top Teaching Tips Series Returns with a week about infant swimming lessons. Today's episode discusses concerns related to the height of the edge of the pool.

Top Teaching Tips Series Returns with a week about infant swimming lessons. Today's episode discussed parent issues with repitition.

Top Teaching Tips Series Returns with a week about infant swimming lessons. Today's episode highlights different floating techniques.

Top Teaching Tips Series Returns with a week about infant swimming lessons. Today's episode highlights knowing the different types of infant holds.

Top Teaching Tips Series Returns with a week about infant swimming lessons. Today's episode highlights the importance of knowing parent names.

Water Familiarisation Tip:  Have fun while teaching all the angles between vertical and horizontal. #JoyofAquatics

Water Familiarisation Tip:  Hokey Pokey is my favourite way to get students to put their eyes in the water. #JoyofAquatics

Water Familiarisation Tip:  Be specific with how you word rolling.  Offer support and let the students learn how to control being unbalanced. #JoyofAquatics

Water Familiarisation Tip:  Be specific when you teach a recovery to standing. #JoyofAquatics

Water Familiarisation Tip: Students Need to relearn land based skills in the water #JoyofAquatics

Safety Activities Tip:  Teach children climbing in and out of boats with PFDs but also tip them out. #JoyofAquatics

Safety Activities Tip:  Use River Rocks to create a new experience #JoyofAquatics

Safety Acitivities Tip:  Make a seaweed mat for a great sensory experience #JoyofAquatics  

Safety Activities Tip:  Use spikey balls as stingers and get parents doing first aid. #JoyofAquatics

Safety Activities Tip:  Harnessing what we have (mats and our ability to make turbulence) to give experiences with waves can be so much fun. #JoyofAquatics

Tip:  Teach Location Specifics #JoyofAquatics

Tip:  Don't forget sidestroke #JoyofAquatics

Tip:  Teaching Rescues should be introduced at different points in time for each student.  It's going to depend on their development, competence and confidence. #JoyofAquatics

Tip:  Keep your class rolls face down #JoyofAquatics

Tip:  Practise your emergency procedures each year (as a minimum) #JoyofAquatics

Tip:  Delivering information in different ways helps people of different learning styles receive your information #JoyofAquatics

Tip:  Cueing should be specific and maybe different for each child #JoyofAquatics

Tip:  Teach Gross Motor Skills First #JoyofAquatics

Tip:  Sandwich with an extra layer #JoyofAquatics

Tip:  Teach the Trainee  #JoyofAquatics