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All Pupils are Equal – Or are they?

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It’s difficult in a short swimming lesson to be fair to everyone, time is not on your side, pupils may not respond the way you would like them to and so on. Fairness in teaching isn’t about treating all pupils the same. Instead, it’s about providing each pupil with the right personalised support to be the best they can or want to be, based on their unique needs and strengths. It’s is about equity, not equality—helping pupils access the same opportunity to do their best through individual input and tailored support – even though you have a lesson plan for the group as a whole.

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Adult and Child swimming – The Essence

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The key question is:What is the purpose of babies and toddlers attending swimming lessons? How many parents actually ask this question – I suspect a very few and those who do probably are just wanting their baby to be able to swim and be safe in or near water.  Safety will be dealt with (or...

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Demonstrating BackCrawl Arm Action

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How good is your double ‘S’ back crawl arm propulsion demonstration? During one of our CPD seminars, we asked all 60 odd delegates to stand and demonstrate a bent arm back crawl arm action as they would to their pupils. Only 2 were even remotely correct. Why is that?In simple terms, they did not understand...

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Why You dont need to learn to breathe

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Did you know that you do not have to teach pupils to breathe to swim? If I had a pound for every teacher that I have heard who tells pupils that the most important thing in swimming is to be able to breathe, I’d be worth a few bob. This kind of comment is of...

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Why The Head is the key To everything

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The question that every teacher needs to fully get to grips with is: “What is the most important part of the body governing the quality of your swimming technique?” You probably all know that this is the head, but if you thought something else, it’s time to reassess! There is one ‘guru’ currently pushing all...

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Why Not Little Finger BackCrawl Exit?

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Why Not Little finger back crawl exit? Do you teach back of hand or little finger exit in back crawl? If yes, have you asked yourself why? Is it because your course tutor told you this was required? Some years ago, we held a week long clinic* for club swimmers, the purpose of which was to...

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Adult Learning – 1. Introduction

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Introduction Teaching adults is a wholly different prospect from teaching children. Why? Simple, it’s not physical (generally) it psychological. Adults have become thinking human beings, they have developed attitude and opinions, will have views and perceptions that life experience has given them, that children (by and large) have not yet developed. For early adult learning,...

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Why Butterfly is the Simplest stroke

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Did you know that butterfly is the simplest stroke and easiest to teach and swim? Think about it. Front crawl has 2 arms operating independently, moving alternately in opposite directions, legs going up and down at the same time, the body rotating on neither the arm or leg axis and with the mouth or nose...

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