Teaching method - Zwemschool Amsterdam

OUR TEACHING METHOD

With our teaching method, we deliberately choose to start directly in deep water. This makes the children's experiences much more natural and better matches their high drive for movement. This ensures the best development of the sense of water. For optimal safety we use the buoyancy suit. In this suit, children feel safer and have full freedom of movement, making all their experiences as natural as possible.

We want there to be high intensity within our lessons. We want to prevent children from sitting still on the side for long and often. Therefore, every lesson is worked in groups. This allows the teacher to properly help each child at his or her own level. This also allows the children to work independently with control charts and materials at the times when the teacher offers individual learning help to other children. As a result, children become more motivated, effectiveness is significantly higher and practice material can be tailored more to individual learning levels.

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The relationship between the teacher and the children determines the atmosphere. Therefore, within our teaching method there is an explicit focus on solidarity. This is expressed, for example, by having the children swim with the same instructor and in the same group as much as possible. We also teach mostly from the water. In this way the teacher is close to the children.

The highest learning efficiency is achieved when children are highly engaged. To encourage this, much attention is paid within the lesson to creating a rich learning environment. Combined with meaningful practice material, children are stimulated and challenged to explore and learn.

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During the initial phase (the preliminary phase) of the training, the main focus is on discovery and experience. This leads to your child being able to move and orient himself in the water in a safe and relaxed way and to develop an optimal feeling for the water. We also start early on with survival exercises (exercises without a buoyancy suit). In this way, your child learns to manage in deeper water. This significantly increases the safety of the lesson (and beyond) as well as your child's self-confidence. When your child has successfully completed the preliminary course, the foundation is laid for the main course. Here the emphasis is on learning the swimming strokes and skills. And the broad preliminary course makes learning the swimming strokes easier, smoother and faster! The teachers offer challenging and inviting lessons that optimally connect to the motoric learning and the experiential world of your child.

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