Swimming is a widely popular sport and activity with great health-related fitness benefits. Yet, a significant percentage of children are unable to swim with any degree of skill—meaning not only are they missing out on health benefits, but they also are at risk when in water.
Part of that risk comes from receiving either no instruction or no differentiated instruction. Children receiving swimming lessons are commonly grouped by age or grade, and many lack the basic skills required for their age levels.
Assessments and Activities for Teaching Swimming solves this problem by offering differentiated instruction for every participant in your class or program, based on each participant’s aquatic developmental level.
Part I. The Art and Science of Teaching Swimming
Chapter 1. Teaching Strategies
Chapter 2. Assessment: The Foundation for Swimming Instruction
Part II. Aquatic Activities for Everyone
Level 1. Getting Off to a Fun Start
Level 2. Developing Initial Skills
Level 3. Building on Basic Skills
Level 4. Introducing the Breaststroke, Backstroke, and Diving
Level 5. Learning the Front Crawl, Back Crawl, Breaststroke, and Sidestroke
Level 6. Longer-Distance and Competitive Swimming
Monica Lepore, EdD, is a professor at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. A master teacher of adapted aquatics, Dr. Lepore has been an American Red Cross water safety instructor for more than 25 years. She has a degree in leadership in adapted physical education and received the International Swimming Hall of Fame Adapted Aquatics Award in 2001.
Luis Columna, PhD, is an associate professor in the exercise science and physical education department at Syracuse University. He holds three degrees in adapted physical education and physical education and has been engaged in teaching and scholarship in higher education for the past decade.
Lauren Friedlander Litzner, MS, is a health and physical education teacher in Montgomery County, Maryland. She earned a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Cortland in physical education with a concentration in adapted physical education. She has a master’s degree in community youth sport development from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has a master’s degree from McDaniel College in physical education with a concentration in athletic administration.