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Ray Lau with Ellie Purvis Developing Effective Practice for Swimming Teachers Ray Lau with Ellie Purvis Developing Effective Practice for Swimming Teachers Developing Effective Practice for Swimming Teachers The purpose of this book is to promote effective quality teaching, so that swimmers have the best possible learning experience throughout the course of their aquatic journey. This book is targeted at supporting the technical content for candidates learning to teach swimming at Levels 1 and 2 for programmes leading to national accreditation from an approved awarding body for swimming. The book also acts as a reference for those swimming teachers who have qualied and for school teachers (both specialists and non-specialists). In addition, this textbook will support the delivery of the swimming skills for both programmes from the Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK), Rookie Lifeguard and Survive and Save. “This book will inspire trainee swimming teachers, swimming teachers of all levels and will be a brilliant additional to everybody’s swimming library. The industry has needed a book of this calibre for a very long time. I highly recommend this book to all involved in swimming from the novice to the long standing swimming teacher.” Brian Brinkley, MBE, Two Time Olympian Swimmer (Bronze Medallist 1976), ASA Accredited Tutor and Coach Ray Lau Ray Lau has been teaching swimming since the age of fourteen. He has tutored Level 1 and 2, teaching and coaching swimming courses for more than twenty years, during which time he has trained thousands of swimming teachers/coaches. He is a RLSS UK National Trainer Assessor for the Pool Lifeguard and Lifesaving programmes. He has led the Survive and Save Club - Learn to Swim programme to hold the industry’s premier Kitemark standard. Ray is currently an education consultant and has held the position as Interim Head of School in London. His expertise lies in teaching, learning, quality assurance, continuing professional development and previously, leading school inspections. Ray is currently undertaking an MSc in Learning and Teaching at Oxford University. He holds an MBA in Educational Leadership and Management, an MA in Music Education and a PGCE in Secondary Music. Ray is also certied by the International Neuro-Linguistic Programming Trainers Association as an NLP Master Practitioner, Master Coach. Ellie Purvis Ellie Purvis is Director of the Excellent Performance Team, an ASA approved centre. Ellie has been qualied as an accredited tutor for over twenty years. In addition, Ellie is a specialist tutor for Level 3 coaching swimming, pre-fundamentals and teaching swimming to people with disabilities. She has extensive experience in teaching swimming to all abilities and currently volunteers at a swimming club in Kent. Ellie is currently completing an undergraduate degree in osteopathy and is certied as a neuro linguistic programming master practitioner / hypnotherapist. Authors: 978 0 9934861 0 4 LAU & PURVIS DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE PRACTICE FOR SWIMMING TEACHERS COVER C M Y K Teach to swim | Coach for life 9 780993 486104

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Ray Lau with Ellie Purvis

DevelopingEffective Practice

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Developing Effective Practicefor Swimming Teachers

The purpose of this book is to promote effective quality teaching, so that swimmers have the best possible learning experience throughout the course of their aquatic journey. This book

is targeted at supporting the technical content for candidates learning to teach swimming at Levels 1 and 2 for programmes leading to national accreditation from an approved awarding

body for swimming. The book also acts as a reference for those swimming teachers who have qualifi ed and for school teachers (both specialists and non-specialists). In addition, this

textbook will support the delivery of the swimming skills for both programmes from the Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK), Rookie Lifeguard and Survive and Save.

“This book will inspire trainee swimming teachers, swimming teachers of all levels and will be a brilliant additional to everybody’s swimming library. The industry has needed a book of this calibre for a very long time. I highly recommend this book to all involved in

swimming from the novice to the long standing swimming teacher.”Brian Brinkley, MBE,

Two Time Olympian Swimmer (Bronze Medallist 1976), ASA Accredited Tutor and Coach

Ray LauRay Lau has been teaching swimming since the age of fourteen. He has tutored Level 1 and 2, teaching and coaching swimming courses for more than twenty years, during which time he has trained thousands of swimming teachers/coaches. He is a RLSS UK National Trainer Assessor for the Pool Lifeguard and Lifesaving programmes.

He has led the Survive and Save Club - Learn to Swim programme to hold the industry’s premier Kitemark standard. Ray is currently an education consultant and has held the position as Interim Head of School in London. His expertise lies in teaching, learning, quality assurance, continuing professional development and previously, leading school inspections.

Ray is currently undertaking an MSc in Learning and Teaching at Oxford University. He holds an MBA in Educational Leadership and Management, an MA in Music Education and a PGCE in Secondary Music. Ray is also certifi ed by the International Neuro-Linguistic Programming Trainers Association as an NLP Master Practitioner, Master Coach.

Ellie PurvisEllie Purvis is Director of the Excellent Performance Team, an ASA approved centre. Ellie has been qualifi ed as an accredited tutor for over twenty years. In addition, Ellie

is a specialist tutor for Level 3 coaching swimming, pre-fundamentals and teaching swimming to people with disabilities.

She has extensive experience in teaching swimming to all abilities and currently volunteers at a swimming club in Kent. Ellie is currently completing an undergraduate degree in osteopathy and is certifi ed as a neuro linguistic programming master practitioner / hypnotherapist.

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