Course Pre-Requisites
You’ll need to make sure you’ve met the following requirements before you attend your course:
- Be at least 16 years of age
- Hold current membership of STA
Learners must have all pre-requisites in place before the start of the course. Qualification certificates cannot be issued if all pre-requisites are not met before the start of the course, post course submissions will not be accepted.
Course Description
The STA Level 2 Award in Teaching Swimming aims to produce teachers that can teach the essential swimming skills, water safety and all four key strokes to participants. They are able to plan, deliver, assess and evaluate lessons for adult and child participants.
This qualification is for learners who wish to work with children and adults, helping them to develop, both as swimmers and individuals in the aquatic environment. No experience of working with children or teaching swimming lessons is required prior to undertaking this qualification. The total guided learning hours are 40.
The units of this qualification will enable learners to:
- Safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Plan, deliver, assess and evaluate swimming lessons
- Understand a swimming teacher’s role
- Understand the Health and Safety requirements for an aquatic environment
- Understand the scientific and learning theories relevant to swimming teaching
Course Assessment
The STA Award in Teaching Swimming is tutor assessed through the completion of a risk assessment, schemes of work, lesson plans, lesson evaluation forms and practical teaching.
In addition to this there is a final end course theory multiple-choice question assessment paper and an external assessment of practical teaching.
On successful completion of the STA Award in Teaching Swimming, learners will have completed and been assessed on:
- Developing 3 x ten-week schemes of work
- Developing 4 x lesson plans
- Completing 4 x lesson evaluation forms
- Delivering 3 hours of practical teaching with participants, 30 minutes of which is externally assessed.
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