We suggest your choose a student who is expecting to be in a learning environment and seeking their next skiing development from you. The image should be close and clear, preferably filmed by a 3rd party. Videos that are not clear, sufficiently close i. When you present your lesson online, you will introduce the video, play the video, and answer questions about the lesson. Totally allotted time may not exceed 40 minutes. At Level 3 a candidate should display a strong ability to quickly ascertain a skiers strengths and deficiencies relative to that skiers intent.
Included in this is a refined understanding of effect-and-cause relationships relative to skill references and specific movement issues. A candidate should be able to make technical lesson content decisions based upon specific movement analysis observations. The candidate at Level 3 should be able to watch a skier and develop a lesson plan based on the observed outcomes of the skis and the observed body movements creating them.
The level of analysis and understanding of movements must be great enough—and in depth enough— that the candidate can communicate with the skier, through focused feedback, how they need to change their movements to effect the changes they want in their skiing.
An example video is available HERE. Expect to answer questions from your examiners, 30 minutes will be allotted for your analysis and discussion. Since Level 3 Teaching Assignments almost always will evolve based upon the performance of the group, sample teaching assignments are only given here to stimulate your preparation process.
Your technical knowledge biomechanics and physics and movement analysis skills may be tested at any point: during the class, on a chairlift ride, indoors. Keep that perspective in mind as you work through these samples. At this level, candidates need to be especially cognizant of the Variables such as Environment: Terrain and Conditions, Speed, and the dual elements of Accuracy: Consistency and Adaptability.
Explore how we control the rotation of the skis turning, pivoting,steering with leg rotation separate from the upper body so that we can make short turns on steep pitches. This assignment may evolve naturally from a Benchmark Activity such as Pivot Slips. Explore how we control edge angles through the use of inclination and angulation so we can carve short turns on steep pitches.
Your examiner may set a tactical goal of speed control in Performance Short Turns, with other candidates focusing on different fundamentals. Explore how we control pressure from ski to ski and direct pressure toward the outside ski so we can make a carved medium radius dynamic parallel turn.
Can you imagine the changes in ski performance that different body movements will create? Is speed a minor or major factor? Talk about reality. This is where the rubber meets the road.
A Movement Analysis goldmine! Compare and contrast how we control the relationship of the Center of Mass to the Base of Support to direct pressure along the length of the skis in a long radius, medium radius and short radius turn.
Your Examiner will likely set parameters of one or more Variables in order to keep this clinic from becoming too vague. Keep it exciting, but keep us safe. Today is your lucky day. A foot of fresh Midwestern fluff fell last night. Whaddawe gotta do to win this thing? Today is your unlucky day. Nonetheless you got the first few runs of the day to set the tone for the group. Alpine Education Resources Gain an effective edge! Alpine Education Resources General Resources: This is a navigation portal of links to resource documents that you should be incorporating into your development plan as you pursue the next level of certification or otherwise evolving your skills as a ski instructor.
This document establishes the Skiing, Teaching, and Professional Knowledge Standards for Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 certification: scoresheets; standards; performance guides. Be sure to also read the revised standards! New Member Guide New Instructor E-Learning Course : This free course is a great resource for those thinking about, or just getting started in, teaching snowsports.
Delivering the Beginner Experience E-Learning Course : Free course to learn techniques and tools to help give your students a successful beginner experience. Movement Matrix: The Matrix is your one-stop shop for all ski and snowboard educational video content. Watch videos on all disciplines, including adaptive, alpine, cross country, telemark, and snowboard. Maximize your learning time by sorting the videos you want to watch by conditions, terrain, and level.
This link is a must. Use these documents as a starting point for your pathway to certification. The tasks are organized by certification level. Video links are provided for some, but not all, of the skiing tasks.
The Alpine Exam Protocols Portal tasks, movement analysis, teaching helps you delve deeper into exam expectations by showing you the kinds of teaching assignments you should have experience with Level 1 , competency in Level 2 , or mastery of Level Teaching assignments are also organized by certification level and should be looked at as representative of the kind of assignments you might be given, and not a complete or exhaustive list.
Certification Pathways and Exam Descriptions for each exam provide details and prerequisites for each exam. Also , Event Day—What to Expect is exactly that: an explanation of an event day from arrival to wrap up.
Please use this information as a rough guideline. The Alpine Level 3 Certification Exam is geared to teaching student levels from beginner through the advance zone.
The instructor is expected to be able to teach on all terrain under all conditions. The candidate must pass all three parts in order to become Level 3 certified. A level 3 prep course is strongly recommended before beginning the level 3 exam process.
The 2-day, Level 3 Teach Exam includes a teaching assessment, feedback, and coaching from the examiner to meet the National Standards. Note: The level 3 exam consists of 3-parts. The Resort Trainer course is offered across the Division to help support and develop Resort Trainers. Open to all Certified level 2 and level 3 Instructors interested in becoming a Resort Trainer at their Snowsports School.
This course is where trainers will develop the skills needed to run clinics at their home resort and stay current with professional education. Becoming a trainer is not simply a case of sitting one more exam after passing the Level III Certification. While training has many components of teaching and relies on strong teaching abilities, there are significant differences between teaching students and training instructors which this course highlights.
Candidates working through this program must have a strong teaching background and experience of teaching at all levels. Candidates must also have the opportunity to present clinics to instructors at their home resorts in order to practice the skills necessary to develop into a successful trainer and pass the certification exam. This course is for any fully certified instructor that has extensive experience training and wants to be recognized as a competent trainer in the Western Division.
This course will help guide participants in understanding and applying the difference between skill sets for teaching a lesson as an instructor versus leading a clinic as a trainer. This course can also act as a stepping stone for people who want to grow their clinician and presentation skills for their career development pathway.
Participants must attend all days and meet all aspects of the Divisional Trainer Standards to successfully complete the course and be acknowledged as a Western Divisional Trainer.
Break group into pairs. Share observations with group. Then on the takeoff maneuver in leapers, share observations with group. Then the shaping phase only of extension retraction turns, share observations with group.
Next have everybody give a 10 to 15 minute clinic to the rest of the group on their weakness, and how to improve upon it. At the end of each clinic a quick discussion about areas needing improvement pretty consistently this was make sure you chose the drill or movement patterns that best highlights your topic, i.
Assign a topic to them the morning of based off a large picture weakness in their skiing and have them present a minute clinic to the group. Discuss the differences between a clinic and a lesson, for example how you talk with the group, how you lay out your drills and how you check for understanding. At the end of each clinic discuss how they performed and what they did well and where to improve. Phone: Email: admin psia-i. Salt Lake Office: The Intermountain office does not have any scheduled office hours.
Please email admin psia-i. Submitted workbooks or papers should be scanned and sent to admin psia-i. Books are available for purchase at www. Level 1 The Alpine Level 1 Assessment is the first step in your exciting career as a ski instructor. Level 2 Certified Level 2 instructors must be able to ski all green and blue terrain including bumps and other un-groomed conditions and groomed, moderate black terrain.
Level 3 Certified Level 3 instructors must be able to ski all green and blue terrain and black terrain double black where available in most conditions.
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