Welcome to the latest update from Swimming Ideas! We've been busy testing new features and refining the tools available to you. Here's a rundown of everything now at your fingertips.
New Features on the Website
We started by testing a new computer and exploring the website. The standard features you can access include the download mentorship and tools website. Specifically, we highlighted the easy print lesson plans and visual skill sheets, as well as the Teaching Swimming Find Effective Instruction workbook. These resources are exclusive to this program and not available in other similar programs.
Visual Skill Sheets
The visual skill sheets provide a guide for teaching specific skills such as butterfly. They show the progression of skills and activities to help swimmers improve their technique. These single sheets are useful tools for honing in on specific skills.
Repeatable Lessons
The repeatable lessons are a feature we've been using frequently in our own program. They set an expectation and pepper in all the strokes, allowing instructors to spend more or less time on specific items based on the swimmers' needs.
Premium Lesson Plan Builder
The premium lesson plan builder will be your go-to tool for creating lessons going forward. Subscribers can access this feature and use pre-created elements to build their own lesson plans. There are over 200 freely accessible lesson plan elements available, including freestyle, glides, and kicking.
Lesson Plan Builder
The lesson plan builder is a super cool tool that allows you to create effective lesson plans for your swim team. It has various features such as adding custom levels, using global levels or creating a new one, and saving the lesson plans for reuse. The tool also allows you to add pictures which scale according to the available space.
Practice Writer
The practice writer is another feature that allows coaches to write their lesson plan for practices on the website. It has various aspects such as coach mode, designating what's happening, and putting the coach's message of the day. The intention is to communicate practices not just for assistant coaches but also for swimmers so they can read ahead and know what to expect.
PDF Generation
The tool allows you to generate a PDF of your lesson plan which includes the coach's message, warm up, question of the day with reward consequence, and answer key. The PDF has two pages: the first page shows the coach's message, warm up, and question of the day, while the second page (or bottom of the page) shows the answer key.
Different Editors
The tool offers different editors such as freehand writing, builder, single set or round, and choosing by stroke. These editors are similar to those in Team Manager, making it familiar for users who use that. You can also load templates you have created and save them for future use.
Group Management
The tool allows you to set groups and assign them to different groups. It also has a calendar feature where you can add practices, filter by group, and see past practices. You can export reports as CSV documents and view the breakdown of swimming types.
Aquatic Management System
The system includes lessons management, career development (scan audits), lesson points, and aquatic management. It's a single module within a larger suite of aquatic management tools. The system focuses on fun and effective instruction, with courses designed to be reference materials in bite-sized chunks.
Mentorship Directory
The mentorship directory is an existing system used for part-time employees that will be beneficial for subscribers to the website. It allows you to choose to be a mentor or mentee, connect with others, and share progress publicly.
Roadmap and Initiatives
The roadmap includes initiatives, tasks, meetings, and updates. Meetings document discussions, decisions, and action items, while the timeline tracks changes and progress.
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