Lifesaving Instructor

The Lifesaving Instructor certification is the prerequisite for all other Lifesaving Society instructor certifications.
Evaluation Items:
Unit 1: Opening Session

• List the objectives and evaluation criteria of the course.
• Describe the role and responsibilities of a Lifesaving Society lifesaving instructor.
• Develop teaching skills.

Unit 2: We Are the Lifesaving Society

• Identify the aims and activities of the Lifesaving Society.
• Outline the award progression in the Canadian Lifesaving Program, including the steps in Lifesaving Society leadership training.
• Use the Lifesaving Society literature to locate relevant information about the Lifesaving Society and its activities and programs.

Unit 3: Learning and Teaching

• Describe the fundamentals of how people learn and the implications for the instructor.
• Discuss the importance of and how to maximize practice, and how and when to give feedback in shaping motor skills.
• Demonstrate basic teaching approaches that are useful in lifesaving training.
• Use basic communication principles.
• Locate and use the learning-teaching material in the Lifesaving Society resources.
• Use teaching skills and strategies.

Unit 4: Planning

• Apply principles of planning and use the Lifesaving Society reference material.
• Discuss the importance and principles of course and lesson planning.

Unit 5: Strokes, Skills and Fitness

• Describe basic principles affecting movement in the water and how different body types affect ability.
• Apply movement principles in analyzing and correcting strokes and skills.
• Predict some of the basic errors learners will make in skills and strokes and specify how to correct them.
• List your personal stroke and skill abilities and limitations.
• Describe the components of physical fitness, the basic principles in improving physical fitness, and how to measure your own level of fitness using heart rate.
• Use the Lifesaving Society resources to locate the necessary technical, planning, teaching and evaluation information.
• Improve teaching skills and strategies.

Unit 6: Teaching Water Rescue

• Use teaching approaches suitable for developing judgment, knowledge, skill and fitness in lifesaving candidates.
• Describe the principles that underlie the progression of Lifesaving Society awards.
• List the technical aspects and use of lifesaving skills found in the Lifesaving Society program.
• Use the Lifesaving Society literature to locate the necessary technical, planning, teaching and evaluation information.
• Use newly practiced and developed teaching skills and strategies.

Unit 7: Resuscitation and First Aid

• Prepare teaching strategies and learning activities that are suitable for resuscitation and first aid material and that emphasize a practical approach.
• Describe the performance and knowledge requirements of the first aid and resuscitation material in Lifesaving Society awards.
• Explain the basic theoretical principles on which resuscitation and first aid techniques are based.
• Use the Lifesaving Society literature to locate the necessary technical, planning, teaching and evaluation information.
• Practice and develop teaching skills and strategies.

Unit 8: Responsibility and Safety

• • Make safety a priority.
• Select safe formations, and progressions, and use space appropriately for activities.
• Prevent and/or respond appropriately to emergencies in the instructional setting.
• Discuss the importance of emergency procedures and of all instructors being versed in the procedures used in the facility in which they work.
• List their responsibilities under provincial law or regulations.
• Describe health regulations and guidelines for the use of manikins, relevant to good hygiene.

Unit 9: Evaluating the Canadian Lifesaving Program

• Describe and apply evaluation standards with reference to award guides.
• Select and demonstrate suitable evaluation methods. Use award guides in evaluating lifesaving candidates.
• Administration.
• Conduct evaluations effectively.

Unit 10: Closing session

• Discuss why you have or have not passed the Lifesaving Instructor course.
• Feel welcomed to the team of Lifesaving Society instructors.