1. Ray Lau with Ellie Purvis
Developing
Effective Practice
for Swimming
Teachers
RayLauwithElliePurvisDevelopingEffectivePracticeforSwimmingTeachers
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 qualified 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
certified 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
qualified 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 certified as
a neuro linguistic programming master
practitioner / hypnotherapist.
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