How to Teach Swimming Course
This course equips aspiring swim instructors with essential skills to deliver safe, engaging, and progressive swimming lessons for diverse groups, covering safety protocols, lesson planning, technique coaching, and inclusive teaching strategies.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
How to Teach Swimming Course provides a straightforward, step-by-step approach to conducting safe and effective swimming lessons for people of all ages and skill levels. You'll learn about water safety, basic CPR, and emergency response plans, then create organised sessions using tested methods that progress from beginners to advanced swimmers. Develop a 6-week programme, improve stroke techniques, handle groups with varying abilities, and manage risks, behaviour, and inclusivity confidently in every lesson.
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Develop skills
- Aquatic safety and rescue: quickly apply lifeguard emergency action plans, CPR, AED, and first aid.
- Swim lesson design: create 6-week plans with clear objectives for all levels.
- Stroke coaching: instruct efficient freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.
- Group management: organise mixed ages, maintain ratios, monitor progress, and advance levels.
- Inclusive instruction: modify drills for those with fear, low fitness, or medical conditions.
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