The American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor is a premiere certification for those wishing to teach swimming and water safety courses like:
- Learn to swim
- Swimming and Diving
- Water Safety Presentations
- Basic Water Rescue
This hands-on training will push you to develop not only your technical swimming skills in the water, but your ability to lesson plan and work with swimmers at all ability levels.
Prerequisites
- Be at least 15 years of age on or before the final scheduled lesson of this course.
- Demonstrate the ability to perform the following swimming skills
- 1. Swim the following strokes consistent with the Stroke Performance Charts, Level 4
- Front crawl – 25 yards
- Back crawl – 25 yards
- Breaststroke – 25 yards
- Elementary backstroke – 25 yards
- Sidestroke – 25 yards
- Butterfly – 15 yards
- 2. Maintain position on back for 1 minute in deep water (floating or sculling).
- Tread water for 1 minute.
- 1. Swim the following strokes consistent with the Stroke Performance Charts, Level 4
Hosting
I primarily teach these as privates with 4 – 6 students. In order to host you will need a pool that meets the following requirements:
- Preferably at least 25 yards long
- A depth of at least 9 feet
- A depth of 11 1/2 feet is required to teach off a 1m springboard
Schedule
Please reach out to support@iamaquatics.org to schedule a private.
I typically find that the hybrid model works best for most students. The schedule consists of approximately 6 hours 45 minutes of pre-course on-line work and 23 hours 30 minutes of in-person time. This is most commonly scheduled over two weekends (Friday night pre-session, then Sat/Sun and the next Sat/Sun).
Please check our schedule to see scheduled upcoming courses.