HEA 260 - Lifeguard Instructor

2 credit hours - One term.
Acquire the skills to become a certified American Red Cross Lifeguard Instructor that provide certification is the following areas: Shallow Water Attendant, Lifeguard Management, and CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer, Administering Emergency Oxygen, Blood Bourne Pathogens Training, and Basic Water Rescue courses. To receive the American Red Cross Lifeguard certification, the students must demonstrate the necessary skills and pass the final written exam with a grade of 80 percent or higher.

Note: Candidates must successfully complete the following skills within the first class: entry lifeguard requirements lifeguard aquatic, CPR/AED/PR skill, first aid skills, and final skill scenarios. Complete list of requirements can be obtained in the Department of Health and Physical Education office.

Course Outcomes:

Integrate the principles of motor skill acquisition with motor learning principles.
- Identify three stages of motor learning.
- Evaluate the quantitative and qualitative motor skill principles.
- Integrate the key elements and strategies for planning effective lessons.
Analyze teaching principles.
- Create direct and indirect strategies to correspond with the three identifiable stages of learning.
- Apply teaching progressions, guiding practice through feedback, and focusing on sensory awareness to teaching and correcting aquatic rescue skills.
- Identify the learners environment from the instructors perspective
- Identify the learners environment from the learners perspective
Identify the learning environment
- Identify factors which influence acquisition of aquatic rescue skills.
- Discuss strategies to enhance individual performance of aquatic rescue skills.
- Identify factors which influence the acquisition of first aid and CPR/AED skills
- Discuss factors to enhance individual performance of first aid and CPR/AED skills
Investigate purpose for Red Cross courses in the Lifeguard Instructor curriculum.
- Identify objectives for each course and module
- Validate criteria and exist requirements for each aquatic course and module
Formulate a lesson plan and block plan.
- Apply principles of learning and motor skill acquisition to a specific rescue, first aid or CPR skill.
- Structure appropriate expectations and goals.
- Identify short term goals and provide specific feedback.
Adapt the aquatic program to include various populations with disabilities, different ages and ethnic backgrounds.
- Identify conditions that will influence students acquisition of skill.
- Identify students goal/objective based on criteria of critical skill.
- Modify skill to meet the students need and be accountable to performance standard.
Demonstrate Red Cross aquatic skills.
- Demonstrate proper technique and execution of skills.
- Demonstrate successful instruction for four lesson plans and one presentation to a group.
Accurately observe, classify and assess rescue, first aid, CPR, AED, and emergency oxygen administration skills.
- Identify performance standards of a skill according to guidelines for each aquatic performance level.
- Evaluate a students performance using a “photographic eye” and a “critical eye”
- Summarize individual performance and make appropriate recommendations.
- Identify performance standards for each skill.
Investigate available resources.
- Identify components on Instructors resource CD ROM
- Demonstrate ability to use correct instructor manuals for various modules.
Explain Red Cross policy relating to instructors.
- Discuss the responsibilities of a Red Cross Water Safety instructor.
- Describe the Red Cross policy on authorization, extended authorization and maintaining authorization.
- Discuss the instructors role in risk management (legal responsibilities and implications).