| Outdoor Education or Aquatics | Outdoor Education:
Two-day Mountain Skills training programme in hill walking, navigation and camp-craft
• Programming of a multiday visit to an Outdoor Education Centre for children at junior cycle post-primary level
• Planning and supervision of basic orienteering events for a school or similar venue
• Team based adventure games and exercises
• Camp-craft sessions for second level school children
• Basic lessons in the principles of the international 'Leave No Trace' programme for use with small groups of adults or children
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Aquatics:
Theoretical aspects relate to:
• processes and planning of syllabi, schemes of work and session planning for a variety of ability groups and activities.
• Programming for second level students
• Resource development and application'
• Teaching and coaching processes
• Theoretical aspects of water polo, key underpinning aquatic skills, synchronised swimming, diving, modified games, issues related to teaching non swimmers, equipment use
Practical aspects relate to:
• The swimming teachers award
• Teaching activities for stroke development including key underpinning skills- safe entries and exits, floating, breath control and initial submersion, regaining the standing position, sculling, streamlining, transition to deep water, including practices to lead to treading water/ treading water
• Games related to a variety of ability groups
• Diving / early practices for diving
• Synchronised swimming and snorkelling
• Mini-polo |
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