Educational proposal «Water as a teaching medium: the importance of evaluation»

Abstract

Water is an environment that favour the learning of skills, leisure and recreation. These water skills don´t appear for maturation, so the acquisition of these depend on the possibility of water exercise, and participation in early childhood in the development. In the education system aims to provide students a comprehensive education with as many experiences as possible and can work both in the aquatic environment or the ground. This can be considered the importance of including activities in the aquatic environment in physical education classes or extracurricular activities. This paper presents a methodology and teaching system based on the structuring of learning levels for teaching water skills and the importance that the evaluation of this process is about learning.

Keywords

• teaching
• swimming
• levels of learning
• evaluation