This course will teach you how to help students tread water or survival float for two minutes (safety benchmark), and how to swim 175 metres/yards: 50 metres/yards freestyle, 50 metres/yards backstroke, 25 metres/yards butterfly, 50 metres/yards breaststroke (swim benchmark).  


In This Course

  1. 1

    • Introduction

    • Benchmarks

    • Benchmark Performance

    • Safety

    • Words to Know

    • Check Your Knowledge
  2. 2

    • Safety Skill - Extended Survival Float and Treading Water

    • Turns

    • Racing Dive

    • Endurance

    • Check Your Knowledge
  3. 3

    • Practicum and Reflection

    • Stroke School Green Stage Practicum Worksheet

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course you should be able to:

  • Identify differences between an open turn and a flip turn

  • Recognize the type of touch on the wall needed for each type of turn

  • Identify a method of teaching which breaks down a flip turn into three parts

  • Describe a method for keeping water out of the nose when performing a flip turn

  • Identify how to use backstroke flags to set up a backstroke flip turn

  • Identify teaching tips for racing dive stage 4 - stretch

  • Identify teaching tips for racing dive stage 5 - start

  • Organize and conduct an endurance workout for a group swimming in trains

  • Organize and conduct an endurance workout for a group swimming on intervals