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These will develop into a ‘one stop shop’ library of comprehensive, accurate and informative teaching resource for all involved in swimming provision.
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Swimming Teachers & Tutors (TT): Learn how to be the best you can be.
Swimming Schools & Providers (SS): Programme, Business & Competitive Advantage.
Pool Owners (PO): Get the best out of your facility & hirers
Swimmers & Learners (SL): Learn & Improve yourselves.
Samples (SA): Topics that can be found in “Successful Swimming Teaching – The Easy Way”
- Adult & Child lessons – The Simple Essence (TT; SS; PO; SL)
- Adult Learning 1: Introduction (TT; SS; PO; SL)
- Adult Learning 2 – Foundation Skills (SL, TT, SS
- Barriers to Learning to Swim (TT; SS)
- Butterfly is the is the simplest stroke. (TT; SS; SL)
- Challenging Swimming Pupil Behaviours (TT, SS, PO, ST)
- Communicating with Pupils in the pool. (TT; SS; SL)
- ‘Content’ and ‘Outcome’ based teacher qualification courses. Implications. (TT; SS)
- Demonstrating Back Crawl arm action (TT),
- Fair, Equal & Equable Swimming Teaching (TT; SS; SL)
- Fear of Water & Drownproofing (TT; SS; SL)
- Five tips to get repeat business in your swimming school [Coming Soon]
- Guidance on letting your pool. (PO)
- Guidance on how to select a swimming school (SL)
- How to use Google to get more clients. [Coming Soon]
- Idiot Stuff on Social media – Episode 1. (TT, SS, PO, ST)
- Lesson Planning – The effective Way (TT, SS)
- Lesson Plan Matrix – that works (TT; SS)
- Lesson Plan Sample matrix (Consultant proposed) (SS, ST)
- Lesson Plan matrix (Course proposed) (SS; ST)
- Little Finger or back of hand exit in back crawl? (SA; SL)
- Pupil Motivation. (TT; SS, SL)
- Roles & Responsibilities of the Swimming World (TT, SS, PO, ST)
- Running Your Own Business – What no one tells you! (TT; SS; PO)
- Swimming Teaching Courses. ‘Content’ & ‘Outcome’ based (SS, ST, PO)
- Teacher performance and motivation [Coming Soon]
- The Head is Key to everything. (SA; TT)
- The Value of Play in Swimming Lesson. (SS; TT)
- To Franchise or Not to Franchise – That’s the Question. (TT, SS, SL)
- To Scull or Not to Scull – That is the Question. (ST, SL, SS)
- You do not have to teach pupils to breathe to swim? (SA; TT)
- What constitutes a good Pool Hire Agreement (SS, PO)
- Why pupils stop swimming lessons too early? (SA; TT; SS)