Water Safety Instructor exam study guideThis page is being updated to the new 2009 program and is not at the moment completely accurate.
For the final exam to certify as an American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor you will need to know this vocabulary and be familiar with these areas:
Activity Report
Audit
Authorized
Authorized Provider
Authorized Provider Agreement
Authorized Provider Instructor
Certificate
Certified
Code of Conduct
Co-teach
Course of Record
Course Record
Course Record Addendum
Course completion certificates
Extended Authorization
Minimum class size, ages for courses
Reauthorization
rules for pass, fail, incomplete, audit
Unit of Authorization
courses you will be authorized to teach
materials you must use, can use
instructor aides
forms you must complete
Recording and Reporting Progress
Managing Students at Different Levels
which manuals, booklets, videos and materials in the CD rom / DVD are for which uses/courses
objectives of various classes and Water Safety Presentations you will be able to teach
requirements for people to certify in classes that offer certification
photographic eye
center of buoyancy
hydrodynamic principles
law of inertia
Drownproofing
Holding and Support Positions
HELP Position
Huddle Position
voluntary motor skills
Quantitative changes
catch, midpull, finish, cycles, body roll, resistance
downbeat, form drag, glides, leading arm, effective force, power phase,
developmental progressions in breath control and front and back swimming.
safe diving rules, including depths required for safety
shallow and simple dives, Diving Progressions
Progressions for Starts and Turns
competitive and resting strokes
Rotary, Breaststroke, Flutter and Scissors kicks
mistakes in stroke skills, what causes them, fixes for them
characteristics, sequences, kicks, glides, body roll and force of various strokes
emergency action plan
block plan
lesson plan
effective skill demonstrations
types of class organization
Stages of learning
Reciprocal Practice
factors that influence learning
three stages of motor learning:
Cognitive, or early stage
Associative, or practice stage
Autonomous, or skill refinement stage
modifications and adjustments to your courses for people with disabilities
customizing your classes to accommodate older adults
parents and child aquatics goal(s), ages, materials
______________________________________
BIG HINT: you did read all of every text, including Appendix A: Administrative Terms and Procedures, didn't you?
______________________________________
Test results for a typical class I have taught:
one student missed zero questions, others missed 1, 2, 6, 7 and 8. (You are allowed to miss ten of the 50 questions.) They mostly missed different questions, except for one that three of them missed. Looking at the answer they picked, I think it was a matter of not reading the questions properly.
See: How to pass a Red Cross written test
_________________________________
If you have taken CPR or lifeguard training you know that the Red Cross allows two tries at those written tests. Since WSI is an instructor class you will only get one try.
_________________________________
Homework, projects and group discussion topics are posted at:
Water Safety Instructor (WSI)
You should be quite familiar with the material in the CD-Rom Water Safety Instructor’s CD-ROM Contents
Your text, American Red Cross Swimming and Water Safety © 2009, has no index, so I wrote one:
Swimming and Water Safety 2009 index
|
