Instructor Education and Development Program
The KASS program for Student Instructor development training is a comprehensive educational experience that includes actual in-water work with a certified Training Specialist.
There is associated guided academic study of a broad base of subjects including child development and learning theory, behavioural science, and anatomy, physiology and physics as they relate to infants and young children in the aquatic environment .
The training program runs for a minimum of 8 weeks where the following plan is undertaken:
- Academic
- Duration: 2 weeks
- Outcomes:
- Introduction to the behavioural theories and the science behind KASS lessons.
- Theory and Practical in water work
- Duration: 6 weeks
- Outcomes:
- In water practical moving through the progressions of lessons from a child’s first day to their final graduation.
- Theory allowing the instructor to mold the practical and theory together.
- Video analysis which gives the student instructor feedback and knowledge which they can utilise in lessons on their own.
- A Student instructor is not certified to work on their own until this is completed and the training instructor signs off on all of these elements.
- All instructors are required to obtain:
- Current CPR and first aid certificate
- Working with children number. The care and safety of children is paramount and KASS require all applicants to undergo an extensive screening and background check process prior to appointment.
*Further qualifications required
- All pool acquisitions are the responsibility of the training instructor.
Read the instructor program tuition outline
