Swim Teacher Stuff

Its all Free (under conditions outlined below) and Coming Soon

With several years swim teaching I often saw kids transferred to me that were getting nowhere with other teachers (especially with breaststroke kick). I developed stuff that was not available to assist me teaching kids with coordination issues or managing kids with special needs (e.g. Neurodiverse / Autism etc).

Keeping resources to myself does not fit my life philosophy especially as:

• many swim teachers are students
• may only work a few hours a week,
• on minimum wage and
• disposable income limited so unable to invest

thus impacting the quality to teaching the kids if I was selling this stuff.

If that sounds like you (student that has entered the world of swim teaching) then welcome and the materials are free for you to download, laminate and use. If you run a centre then please make contact with me and may be able to either personally or have the artist that assisted me put your company logo on the materials (you need to supply your logo in a vector graphics format) and do this for a modest fee.

Homework sheet for Breaststroke Kick i have used for many parents to help assist their children learn breaststroke kick co-ordination. What I do is laminate it and have parents take a photo (or would have gone through reams of paper by now) and do it at home. The fact is that for some kids, it simply works and regularly have kids that cannot do breaststroke kick and the following week after doing the homework succeed! Once again if you run a centre then contact me to get your logo on it! Download the Breaststroke Kick Homework here.

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Program flashcards COMING SOON (expect by December) and download button not activated yetI often help with kids with high level 2 or level 3 (non-verbal autism) and here are some cards I use and will post when professionally drawn:

These program /activity cards are helpful because:

• Some neurodiverse children need to know in advance what is coming up as otherwise have trouble transitioning from one exercise to the next (eg. kicking with board to without board) and if not aware in advanced can become highly agitated and difficult to manage.
• Many kids with special needs require precise instructions. The stuff that you can generally download do not have the eyes looking to the bottom of the pool or other things correct so set out to fill this gap with an artist to make the drawings needed.

How I use these program / activity cards is:

• laminate each program / activity card individually (hopefully you have access to colour printer and laminator)
• store in a plastic document box (my one is around 2cm thick that got from office supplier)
• purchased some “velcro dots” (or strips) from the craft shop and put the back of the flash cards and the outside of the box so that the box doubles as a display board to affix the program cards to

then stick the activity cards needed for that leasson on the plastic box.

Will you help yourself an others:

• Bookmark this page and check up on it regularly if you like the downloads. I decided not to have you register and use “mailchimp” or similar and simply monitor the number of downloads.
• More Program Flash Cards – Do you have suggestions for more flash cards? I would like to hear from you especially if you sponsor the production of stuff you need! I can then maybe get it done and add it to the collection for free downloads to instructors everywhere.

Note: I have covered the costs for what I initially need but cannot do for everyone else’s needs so sponsoring a card is a way to help yourself and others (note: I will maintain the copy-write of any drawing produced but doubt I will ever make money when it is being made available for free to most as a swimming community service).