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November 3, 2010

Lifesaving: Communication is the Key

I am on an aquatics tip, as I am just finishing six week long units in the pool for each year of the MYP. The third year have done lifesaving, which also included developing freestyle and breaststroke, lifesaving backstroke and sidestroke. The students also looked at the 4 As of rescue: awareness, assessment, action and aftercare and developed their rescue skills and then applied them in various scenarios. Community and Service was the AOI: How can I serve my community?

Communication is the key to a strong performance. We worked on scripts and rehearsing what we would say in different situations. For each rescue scenario for the performance rescue, the students were assessed on their effective communication throughout the whole rescue. Is this criterion C or D or both? I left it in C as it is a part of the performance, and focused on the communication in the group learning activities for their assessment against criterion D.

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