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Date posted 06 May 2022
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Start your swimming teacher course

Becoming a swimming teacher can be a rewarding yet challenging role. The swimming teacher qualification will help unlock your potential to deliver fun and safe swimming lessons, allowing children to develop water confidence and most importantly an invaluable life skill. We are also proud to run the country’s largest swim school programme, so there’s great opportunities for career progression with a range of vacancies available across our leisure centres.What types of swimming teacher qualifications do Better provide?

STA Level 2 Award in Teaching Swimming

This is your first step to becoming a qualified swimming teacher. The course will teach you how to deliver safe, progressive, engaging and active lessons to children from non-swimmers through to improver ability. You will learn about the essential swimming skills and how these help a child to develop the basic techniques for all four swimming strokes. The course will introduce you to the principles of effective teaching, looking at health and safety, safeguarding, communication, motivation and feedback, as well as how to plan and evaluate your teaching skills. During the course you will teach a range of ability groups from non-swimmers to improvers, teaching between 4 to 8 pupils in and out of the water.

Course requirements

  • You must be 16 years of age or older
  • You must hold current membership of STA . Please note that we require your STA membership number 5 days before the commencement of your course so that we can ensure you are registered on the course correctly

STA Level 2 in Baby and Pre School Swimming

This qualification is for individuals, who wish to work with babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers and their accompanying adults. No prior experience of working with children or teaching swimming lessons is required. The course will teach you how to deliver safe, progressive, and engaging baby and pre-school lessons, with an emphasis on a child focused approach.  During the course you will deliver lessons in our SWIMBiES programme, working with babies from 3 months old through to 4 years old. You will learn about the essential baby swimming skills, the core holds, child development, cues and reflexes to enable you to understand how to deliver progressive and suitable lessons that meet the needs of the parent and child.

The course will introduce you to the principles of effective baby and pre-school teaching skills, looking at health and safety, communication, organisational methods, motivation and feedback, as well as how to plan and evaluate your teaching skills. You will learn a range of activities, songs and progressions throughout the course.

Course requirements

  • You must be 18 years of age or older
  • You must hold current membership of STA . Please note that we require your STA membership number 5 days before the commencement of your course so that we can ensure you are registered on the course correctly
  • Hold the Safeguarding Children, Young People and Vulnerable Adults online learning certificate or acceptable equivalent

  

For more information visit:- https://www.better.org.uk/what-we-offer/qualifications/swimming-teacher