HEA 261 - Water Safety Instructor

2 credit hours - One hour of lecture and two hours of laboratory weekly; one term.
Prepares the student to teach various swimming courses in American Red Cross Swimming and Water Safety programs. Individuals successfully completing the aquatic skills and written exam with a grade of 80 percent or better will be certified as an American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor. Minimum age: 16. Lab fee $15.

Note: Recommended pre-courses: PHE 258 and PHE 259 .

Course Outcomes:

Integrate the principles of motor skill acquisition with motor learning principles.
- Identify the three stages of motor learning.
- Evaluate the quantitative and qualitative motor skill principles.
- Integrate the key elements and strategies for planning effective swim 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 skills.
Identify hydrodynamic principles and apply them to aquatic skills.
- Identify factors that influence acquisition of aquatic skills.
- Discuss strategies to enhance individual performance of aquatic skills.
Investigate purpose for Red Cross courses in the Water Safety Instructor curriculum.
- Identify objectives for each aquatic course.
- Validate criteria and existing requirements for each aquatic course.
Formulate a lesson plan and block plan.
- Apply principles of learning and motor skill acquisition to a specific aquatic 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 swimming 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.
Investigate available resources.
- Identify components on instructors resource CD-ROM.
- Demonstrate ability to correctly use instructor manuals.
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).