Animal warm-up
Add some fun and creativity to your warm-ups with this animal warm-up. It is perfect for your youngest students! Set up 4 or more cones...
Teaching Swimmers Breaststroke for the First Time
Teaching young age group or novice high school swimmers how to swim legal and pretty breaststroke is a good challenge requiring a...
Creative Games for Beanbag Activities (Part 2)
FOUR COLOR TAG - Beanbags of four different colors - One beanbag per student - Students scattered in general space - Music While music...
Use Questioning to Extend Students' Thinking
When questioning students, teachers need to require more than simple recall. While recall of facts is important, teachers should actively...
A BRIEF BREAKDOWN OF THE BREASTSTROKE FOR THE AGE GROUP SWIMMER
During training it is best for the coach to introduce components of the stroke rather than teaching/coaching long distances or repeats of...
Establishing Order
The first task of any teacher is to structure the learning environment so that teaching and learning can take place without confusion or...
How do you react when a beginner falls in?
Most group lessons are filled with 3-6 year old beginners. A large portion of classes is teaching level one, or what we call "Going...
Teaching Styles in Physical Education
Students vary in their levels of skill proficiency, maturity, independence, responsibility, and other aspects that impact their ability...
TEACHING THE BUTTERFLY STROKE
BODY POSITION As in all strokes the body must be horizontal and streamlined. The teacher/coach must make sure the swimmer can push off...
Kinesthetic Learning: Moving Toward a New Model for Education
How do people learn? Research has found that it is our learning process, not our intelligence, that is the most important factor in...
