SWIMMING INSTRUCTORS
Our team of swimming instructors are passionate individuals dedicated to imparting their years of knowledge and experience to our learners.
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SWIMMING IS NOT A SPORT THAT COMES NATURALLY TO EVERYONE Walking, running, and biking are all relatively easy to master; however, learning to swim requires some coordination and stamina, and...
Friendly Dolphin Swimming Instructor In Singapore
A good swimming instructor or swimming teacher is being looked up to by their pupils as role models. Students will look upon to teacher for knowledge and guidance. Friendly Dolphin Swim School firmly believes that a teacher must possess several key characteristics that will make him or her shine out.
These are some of the characteristics that will make the best teachers and determine their level of success in teaching. Especially in the pool, a swimming teacher will always have to foster discipline making sure students maintain it.
A teacher is a means of travel like a car; the students or athletes is the traveler. It is their journey; teachers are there to help them get to where they are supposed to be. Good coaching will always place the interests of the swimmers first.
Friendly Dolphin Swim School always makes sure our teachers and private swimming instructors in Singapore have all of these qualities.
- Knowledge
- Patience
- Good control and management of students
- Effective communication
- Empathy
Effective Communication
- The teacher has to understand not everybody will be learning at the same pace.
- Aware that children’s behavior and attention spans will also try your patience.
- No matter what is thrown at you, the teacher has to show patience and control at all times.
Knowledge
- Possess sound knowledge of the swimming subject
- Always keeping the knowledge up to date
- Always admit when a teacher does not know the answer and make it a business to find out
Good Control And Management
- This does not mean ruling with fear, just setting rules
- Children have to be controlled for good safety purposes and learning purposes
- Those stepping out of line will know they have done so and will not be tolerated
- Letting pupils behave unruly throughout lesson not only make the lesson unsafe, students are also not learning anything
- Golden rule is our teachers will always set out early on to show them who is the “boss”
Empathy
- Teaching swimming requires empathy in all swimming teachers
- Teachers need empathy when facing children who are scared
- Toward adult who are feeling embarassed and equally scared of water
- Towards children who are over excited at prospect of getting into the water
- Child or adult who is trying very hard to keep up with the rest
Effective Communication
- Ability to pass on information clearly and effectively
- Effective communication will determine how fast the students learn
- Essential to have wide knowledge of the subject
- Conveying of information of knowledge is crucial in teaching
- Pass the knowledge to the pupils in clear, concise way
- Expertise in swimming understanding mechanism, techniques and human body
Certified Swimming Coach
- NROC certified swimming teachers to provide swimming lessons in all public swimming pools
- Friendly Dolphin Swim School instructors are usually found in East and Central Singapore
- Private Swimming Instructors in Singapore are certified under AUSTSWIM and SSTA
- Swimming instructors are usually found around Redhill, Tiong Bahru area and public swimming complex in the east such as Tampines Hub Swimming Complex and Bedok Heartbeat Swimming Complex
- All swimming pools include 25 public swimming pools, private condominiums, and clubhouses
