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The study aims to design a crawl stroke teaching that is suitable for elementary school students in stage one. Through this class, the researcher hopes to enhance student swimming ability and understand how the students feel about the swimming class. By these, the researcher also hopes to improve professional development as a teacher. This curriculum is adopted phaslized teaching method and used action research as methodology. The subjects are 30 grade 1 students, with 14 boys and 16 girls in total. The collected resource includes swimming test scores, student feedback for the swimming class, and the teacher’s journals. After implementing this curriculum for 18 weeks, the result shows that first, the curriculum significantly enhances stage-one student crawl stroke ability. Second, in terms of affection, most students have highly interest in swimming class, and they also have highly acceptance in crawl stroke class. Third, the researcher improves his professional development as a teacher through the process of designing, implementing, reflecting, and correcting the crawl stroke curriculum. Last but not least, based on the process of doing this study and its result, the researcher has several pieces of advice for crawl stroke curriculum design, a swimming teacher’s professionalism and future study. Also, he or she expects this study could help improve swimming education in Taiwan. |