Teaching Aquatics to Babies!

Sadly i don't have any pictures from the topic of this blog entry, but as you can see from my title I am going to talk about an experience I have had while here in college that was a lot of fun and very informational. In my Aquatics class, we taught children from the ages of 6 months up to a possible age of higher 3's or lower 4's. It was amazing fun, and while we were not actually teaching these children how to swim, it was definitely a good learning experience for them and their parents. The purpose of this class was to introduce these children to a pool/water environment and hopefully teach them some of the very basic swimming skills that they will need in the future to learn how to swim.

I think that in this experience i was able to gain a great deal when it comes to teaching. Not only was I with a very diverse age group which will definitely help me as a teacher in the future to have had some practice working with younger children, but it also helped me gain some practice working with children in a very diverse atmosphere.