Product Description

Designed for use in conjunction with "Teaching Swimming Fundamentals", this text provides specific instructions with the aim of making it easy for swimming instructors to conduct successful youth and adult classes. The manual offers instructors everything they need to develop fun, effective lesson plans that meet the objectives for each of seven levels: Polliwog; Guppy; Minnow; Fish; Flying fish; Shark; Porpoise. Each level is structured around personal safety, personal growth, stroke development, water games, and sports and rescue. For each level, the manual provides specific objectives, sample teaching strategies and complete, illustrated descriptions of the new skills introduced. Discussion questions, instructor notes and lists of performance criteria are included for both youth and adult classes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #932958 in Books
• Published on: 1999-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 202 pages

Customer Reviews

Not a how-to manual
This manual is a textbook for aquatic instructors. It assumes they have participated in the YMCA aquatic training and certification program and will use this manual to tailor classes to meet their student's needs. Each chapter is devoted to one of the YMCA Youth and Adult's seven levels (polliwog, guppy, minnow, fish, flying fish, shark, porpoise) and provides sample strategies to teach personal safety, personal growth, stroke development, water games and sports, and rescue. The appendix contains drills for improving strokes and building fitness, wetball rules of play, YMCA Swim Level Logos and a list of additional resources that may be purchased.

I bought the Youth and Adult Aquatic Program Manual because I knew that the YMCA had a successful Aquatic Program and I wanted to use their method to teach myself to swim at home. I was expecting a how-to manual or at least an outline of exercises that would teach swimming fundamentals but I found neither. For this reason I rate this book 1 star. Its target audience would more than likely rate it more favorably.

For those looking to teach themselves to swim, I highly recommend Happy Laps by Terry Laughlin. This is a Total Immersion Instructional DVD.