STA Level 2 Certificate in Teaching Swimming
Your next step as a swimming teacher. Gain advanced knowledge and develop your skills to be able to offer advanced swimming lessons. You will be qualified to teach all level of participants and hold a qualification that is Professional Standard Endorsed by CIMSPA.
About the Course
This course aims to prepare holders to teach, a range of aquatic and safety skills such as floating, rotation, water confidence, swimming strokes, water safety, and competitive starts and turns. The STA Level 2 Certificate in Teaching Swimming qualifies learners to teach non-swimmers through to advanced participants.
The STA Level 2 Certificate in Teaching Swimming is made up of 9 units, 5 of which are covered by the new Award in Teaching Swimming. This course covers:
- Planning, Delivering, Assessing and Evaluating Competitive Swimming Strokes
- Planning, Delivering and Assessing Advanced Swimming Skills
- Understand the Safety Requirements for Advanced Swimming Skills
- Understand Swimming within Education
The course is assessed by:
- Complete a portfolio and worksheet questions to the satisfaction of the course tutor including; 4 schemes of work, 7 lessons plans, and 4 lesson evaluations
- As part of an external assessment, teach a 30 minute lesson to 4 learners
The cost of the course payable to MXT Swimming School before the course commencement date is £425.00, which includes all course materials.
Please note that 100% attendance is required throughout the course.
More information about the course can be viewed at the following address: https://www.safetytrainingawards.co.uk/qualifications/swimming-teaching/sta-certificate-in-teaching-swimming/
Pre-requisites
Before your certificates can be released you need to meet the following pre-requisites:
- Be 16 years of age or older
- Hold current membership of STA
- Hold the *STA Award in Teaching Swimming* or acceptable equivalent (please note the ASA Level 1 Award in Aquatic Teaching is not an acceptable pre-requisite)
*Those who have completed the previous STA Award in Swimming Teaching will need to complete the STA Award in Teaching Swimming portfolio
Upcoming Courses
Please see our future course list for details.