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Choose To Swim: 

Tools and Techniques

An Interactive Workshop

Explore Effective Techniques to Teach 

Children of All Ability Water Safety and Swim Instruction

 

This workshop is especially designed for:

This workshop is designed to:

Brain structure is not

predetermined and fixed. We can

alter the ongoing development

of our brains and thus

our capabilities.

What we do moment to moment

greatly influences how the web

continually reweaves itself.

John J. Ratey, M.D.

A User's Guide To The Brain

Goal:

To provide you with the tools that will assist you to create a dynamic aquatics program for individuals of all ability
 

Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

  • Assess swimming readiness

  • Conduct three warm up activities

  • Design activities that increase a student's strength, flexibility and endurance

  • Implement three instructional strategies that include all individuals
Purpose:

One Step Further follows the credo, Form follows Function.  All movement emanates from the trunk.  

Function means having the back strength, trunk rotation, flexibility and endurance to support skill development.    

Form is the ability to perform skills such as kicks, floats, arm strokes and rhythmic breathing.  

In this workshop you experience:

  • strategies that work

  • the affects of movement challenges have on all individuals 

  • the results of successful strategies
Workshop Description:

Engage in discussion, activity, audio-visual presentations and lecture. To enhance your learning experience, we utilize the arts, exercise and specific instructional strategies to connect the research with actual activity that reinforces cognition, social and emotional development.  We ‘walk the talk’ together—with multiple exercises that enable you to utilize this material at home, in the community or in a classroom. As you experience these instructional strategies and challenges, you will be able to immediately plan ways to integrate them into your environment and enhance your instruction.

 

Participant Comments

 

Fun, creative, active, interactive

I will recommend this workshop to everyone

Their energy was contagious and they practiced what they preached

 

Parent Comments

"Strength and skills are even more important because he doesn't realize he's being taught"

"It has allowed him to be more social at the beach, lakes and pools with peers since he was not protesting loudly and more willing to be playful." 

 

 

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E-mail Nancy Pleiter-Sadowy at: npsctsllc@roadrunner.com