Participants in our Swim School Instructor Training program will acquire a solid, principle-based understanding as well as the skills and confidence to teach children ages 3 to 16 how to swim skillfully. Our first instructor training covers the fundamental skills of water safety and swimming in all four primary stroke styles. Our advanced instructor training is for competitive swimmers and covers more advanced skills relating to competitive swimming. Participants will learn to lead lessons and assess a student’s progress along 9 skill-proficiency levels. Open Water instructor training introduces open-water swimming skills.

Fundamental Instructor Training Topics

• Basic Water Safety Skills

• Fundamental Teaching Skills to instruct in:

  • Freestyle

  • Breaststroke

  • Backstroke

  • Butterfly

• Tactile Feedback Skills

• Introduction to starts and turns

• Lesson Planning (how to design, deliver and review your lessons)

• A variety of games and instruction techniques to appeal to all age levels

• Personalised support for the duration of the program to ensure you are “instructor ready” at the completion of your training

Advanced Instructor Training Topics

• Advanced Water Safety Skills

Advanced Skills for

• Freestyle

• Breaststroke

• Backstroke

• Butterfly

Open Water Skills Training

Format

• Fundamentals Instructor Training is a blended learning program that equates to approximately four days of training. It consists of both online sessions (6 x 2-3 hours approx.) and pool practices (2 days approx.) in a small group setting.

• Advanced Instructor Training is a 3-day program with on-site training in a small group setting

• Written and video analysis assignments are required during the training.

• Study of online materials may be required before group training sessions.

• We only use credentialed SwimMastery Swim School Instructor Trainers for this training.