Reflection Paper On Teaching Swimming

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AHE-1127 Aquatics Assessment 2
Tutor: Andrew Hammond

PART A
Learning & Teaching swimming
After a 4 week teaching experience with the students from the Western English Language School, my knowledge about teaching children how to swim has dramatically expanded and improved. This experience has taught me a lot of important things, such as how to make lessons fun and enjoying for the students, to always have a smile on my face rather than looking like a nasty teacher and many more. Although I had a great time teaching the kids how to swim, it had its tough times as well, especially when I was trying to communicate with them. My two students were very poor at speaking and understanding English, therefore I had to specifically demonstrate the certain task to them by using hand and leg actions. Sometimes I had to actually physically show them the skill that I was trying to teach so that they knew what we trying to achieve.
Before our teaching experience began, I thought I would struggle to communicate and build a good relationship with my students as I wasn’t too good at handling children and just could not tolerate them. But since the arrival of the WELS students, I realized that it wasn’t actually that bad, but instead very enjoying and fun. My confidence boosted up from zero to extremely high while teaching them to swim. This confidence boost will also be very helpful in the future when teaching swimming and water safety at different schools. Now, I don’t have to stress about whether or not I can communicate and teach my students how to swim properly and the right and safe methods to it.

The skills I developed in being involved in The Aquatics unit and the PIL program
The Aquatics unit and the PI...

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... it can also be lifesaving as well. Hence, the younger children begin swimming, the sooner they will be able to perform proper safety skills in the water.
Finally, to decrease the number of people drowning in this country I believe including/maintaining aquatics in the school curriculum would be really beneficial and have a dramatic impact on the drowning statistics. Teaching kids how to swim at a young age could turn them into great swimmers and also lifesavers. Not only would they save a person drowning in the water, but could be anyone who is having difficulty with their breathing and applying CPR if the need arises. Teaching aquatics at schools can only benefit the kids rather than harm them as not only would it be a big advantage and bonus for themselves, but would also benefit the country as a whole and reduce the number of drowning occurring every year.

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