Swimming Reflection

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I’ve always loved being in the water and since I had no fear of water, my parents wisely put me in swim lessons at a very early age. Swimming for me is as natural as walking; but for me floating in the water, free from life’s concerns is much more relaxing. Bloom’s Taxonomy of six levels of learning: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation can be related to my swimming learning process.

Knowledge – The first level of learning is knowledge which is where you remember the concepts that you were taught. For me, I would say that this level was when I started to take swim lessons, which got me used to being in the water and staying on top of it. I had to listen to my instructor’s list of instructions, recall them …show more content…

At this level I used the knowledge I had learned in the first level and listened and watched as my instructor illustrated how to coordinate and put it all together. Listening to my instructor I actual understood the importance of putting her instructions into practice and the beneficial results that would follow if I did so. I comprehended and recognized to move through the water and get to where I wanted to be, I had to breathe properly, and use my arms and legs in a coordinated manner. I understood that if I used the arm movement while kicking and breathing at the correct time, I could swim from one side of the pool to the other. I took this idea and practiced it knowing that soon the distance I could swim and my speed would improve. It soon became natural to do the three together in rhythm, I was …show more content…

In order to do a behavioral task we need knowledge, and understand what procedure will work the best to change the behavior (Seneca College, 2016). This is where the learner will use information that they have learned and figure out the best way to implement that information to best improve the situation that they are now in. This would be the level where I was ready to apply my comprehension and skills at a competitive level such as a swim meet. Up until then I had only swam for recreational purposes. Now I had to learn to put the knowledge I had learned together with practice and instruction from my coaches, and perfect it, so that I would be able to swim as quickly as possibly in the competitions. I would practice my strokes, make sure my legs were straight, my turns quicker and my dives concise. By using all my previous knowledge of the sport I had learned, and choosing appropriate procedures, and applying them in a way that I felt appropriate, I increased my speed and my chances of placing in the

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