• Learning and
Teaching
• Water Class
Management
• Lesson Planning

Student Performance:
By the end of the lesson you will be able to:
• Explain the learning and teaching process.
• Explain testing, evaluation, and achievement.
• List and define the Laws of Learning.
• Describe the factors that enhance learning.
• Describe methods for effective oral communications.
• Describe training aids and tell how they can enhance communication.
• Explain how to teach swimming and diving in confined and open water.
• Prepare lesson plans for classroom, confined, and open water.

Learning and Teaching
• Learning:
– “A measurable change in an individual’s behavior or attitude.”
– “A change in behavior based on experience.”
• Bloom’s taxonomy
– Identifies three overlapping domains important in the learning process:
• Knowledge
• Attitude
• Skills

Cognitive Domain

Affective Domain

Psychomotor Domain

Learning and Teaching
(continued)
• Teaching:
– “Purposeful activities that aid an individual’s learning.”
• Testing and evaluation
– Foster effective learning and achievement .
• Class focus
– The student is the most important person in any class .

Learning and Teaching
(continued)
• The “laws of learning“
– Readiness: students will learn best when physically and mentally ready.
– Intensity: increased sensory input increases learning.
– Primacy: first learned is best remembered.
– Exercise: skills are only truly learned through participation and practice.
– Effect: Students learn best when they perceive the material as real and useful.
– Recency: that which is most recently learned is more easily recalled.

Learning and Teaching
(continued)
• Factors that enhance learning
– Oral communication
• Preparing to communicate
• Getting started
• Using the “tools of the trade”
– voice, eyes, hands and body

Learning and Teaching
(continued)
– Training aids
• Reinforce a point
• Increase the intensity of the experience
• Use it and then put it away

Learning and Teaching
(continued)
– Empathy
– Goals and motivation
– Reinforcement
– Pacing

Learning and Teaching
(continued)
– Continuity
– Relaxation and performance
– Physical awareness and sensitivity
– Physical surroundings
– Anxiety and fear

Water Class Management
• Surface teaching
– Safety and communication
– Class positioning is important to the learning process
• Line-up
• Semicircular
• Instructor centered

Water Class Management
(continued)
• Evaluating and teaching swimming skills
– Crawl stroke
– Breaststroke
– Elementary backstroke
– Sidestroke

Water Class Management
(continued)
– Underwater teaching
• Positioning is important for safety and control
– Follow me
– Call down
– Class first, instructor following
– Instructor first, watching class
– Instructor and buddy pairs in turn

Water Class Management
(continued)
– Progression
– Exercises
– Skill demonstration
• Using demonstrations well
• “I hear, I forget; I see, I remember; I do, I understand.”

Water Class Management
(continued)
– Demonstration quality skills
– Camaraderie and competition
– Imaging and selfconcept
– Intrapersonal communication

Lesson planning
• Benefits of Lesson Planning
• Modern Lesson Planning
• The acronym TOM I PASTA

Lesson planning
(continued)
• Lesson planning from scratch
• Establishing objectives
– “If you’re not sure where you’re going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.”
• Components of a learning objective
– Performance
– Conditions
– Standard

Lesson planning
(continued)
• Classroom
– Preliminary steps of lesson preparation
– Subordinate steps
• prepare the introduction
• prepare the summary
• prepare the lesson evaluation
• prepare the lesson plan
• “TOM I. PASTA” mnemonic
• rehearse the lesson
• prepare the teaching notes

Lesson planning
(continued)
• Confined water
– Briefing: (introductions, session overview, facility orientation –hazards and restrictions, safety equipment, communications, etc.
Detailed briefing outlines are included in NAUI instructor guides.)
– Skill review exercises
– New skills
– Activities
– Debriefing

Lesson planning
(continued)
• Steps of confined water lesson preparation
– Identify the skill and any sub-components.
– Determine objectives: (performance, condition, standard).
– Select the teaching method.
– Determine the time frame for the lesson.
– Determine the skill progression and the exercises needed to reach the objectives.
– Determine training aids and assistants needed.
– Prepare an introduction and summary, if appropriate.
–
Prepare the training aids.
– Rehearse the skills to be demonstrated.
– Prepare teaching notes/slates.

Lesson planning
(continued)
• Open water training
– Briefing: (introductions, session overview, facility orientation –hazards and restrictions, safety equipment, communications, etc.)
– Skill review exercises
– Skill performance
– Skill evaluations
– Application of skills
– Debriefing

Lesson planning
(continued)
• Steps of open water session preparation
– Identify the dive location and an alternate; check weather and environment, print maps and directions.
– Verify information for briefing: hazards, communications, and emergency procedures.
–
Prepare schedule of activities.
– Determine staffing and equipment needs.
– Prepare briefing notes.
– Inventory and check equipment: personal, backup, and emergency.
– Prepare emergency action plan.
– Prepare debriefing notes.

End of Unit 16
• Learning And
Teaching
• Water Class
Management
• Lesson Planning

Student Performance:
By the end of the lesson you will be able to:
• Explain testing, evaluation, and achievement.
• List and define the Laws of Learning.
• Describe the factors that enhance learning.
• Demonstrate effective oral communications.
• Describe training aids and tell how they can enhance communication.
• Explain the learning and teaching process.
• Teach swimming and diving in confined and open water.
• Lesson plan for classroom, confined, and open water.

Student Performance:
By the end of the lesson you will be able to:
• Explain the learning and teaching process.
• Explain testing, evaluation, and achievement.
• List and define the Laws of Learning.
• Describe the factors that enhance learning.
• Describe methods for effective oral communications.
• Describe training aids and tell how they can enhance communication.
• Explain how to teach swimming and diving in confined and open water.
• Prepare lesson plans for classroom, confined, and open water.