Movement Matrix

What: Exploring the considerations, insights and strategies that represent master teaching. Learn more about how people really learn, and how your personal learning and teaching styles may be much more influential than you think! Why: As we develop and enhance our skills on a path to becoming master teachers, we acquire more options for ways to build a Learning Connection with different types of students. This provides us the ability to create truly customized teaching strategies so as to further enhance our student’s individual snow sports learning experiences. How: Interacting with your peers – going beyond the teaching model: from what you already know to exploring new possibilities for creating great teaching and learning and have fun doing it!

This PDS if for all snowboard instructors pursuing certification or seeking a technical update. Topics may include: Beyond the Beginner: Teaching Intermediates Freestyle concepts and instruction techniques AASI Snowboard Manual & Video review; exam preparation study lesson Movement Analysis…why is it important? How do you use it? How is video analysis useful? Review static exercises and how they can apply to various activities. What is the link between the fundamental movements and the fat that we use those to invoke the performance concepts… National Snowboard Standards…What has changed? How to get the most out of this fun document. What is your stance…is it keeping you upright?

Description: The Adaptive Alpine VI Online Prep clinic is an online interactive web clinic. The clinic consists of weekly videoconferences for two (2) hours over three (3) weeks. 1st Session: 10/18/2017 2nd Session: 10/25/2017 3rd Session: 11/01/2017 Each session runs from 6:30pm- 8:30pm Central Time  In this clinic you will: Develop a better understanding of what it is like to have a visual impairment Learn about how the eye works Study common visual impairments you may encounter as an adaptive ski instructor. Study classes of medications commonly prescribed for people with visual impairments Explore effective teaching techniques for teaching people with visual impairments Keep engaged and have checks for understanding In each class, we discuss the skiing, teaching and technical skills that are evaluated against PSIA National Standards. While this clinic is designed as a preparatory clinic for those taking their Level 1 & 2 Cognitive/Visually Impaired Exam, anyone who wants to enhance their VI lessons can benefit from this clinic. This clinic is open to both Members and Non-Members of PSIA-AASI Format: This clinic utilizes GoToMeeting, a web-hosted service for online video conferencing. Prior to each week’s class, you are given a link and a password for the online meeting. You can use either a desktop or mobile device to connect to the meeting and you can receive audio via computer or phone. The presentation and video are shown via sharing of the instructor’s desktop. Throughout each class, there are discussions and online questions to encourage participation. Note: You must be present for all three classes in order to receive PSIA credit. For more information about GoToMeeting, go here: https://www.gotomeeting.com To ensure your computer is capable of using the GoToMeeting format, go here: http://help.citrix.com/meeting/get-ready

What: Exploring the considerations, insights and strategies that represent master teaching. Learn more about how people really learn, and how your personal learning and teaching styles may be much more influential than you think! Why: As we develop and enhance our skills on a path to becoming master teachers, we acquire more options for ways to build a Learning Connection with different types of students. This provides us the ability to create truly customized teaching strategies so as to further enhance our student’s individual snow sports learning experiences. How: Interacting with your peers – going beyond the teaching model: from what you already know to exploring new possibilities for creating great teaching and learning and have fun doing it!

What: Exploring the considerations, insights and strategies that represent master teaching. Learn more about how people really learn, and how your personal learning and teaching styles may be much more influential than you think! Why: As we develop and enhance our skills on a path to becoming master teachers, we acquire more options for ways to build a Learning Connection with different types of students. This provides us the ability to create truly customized teaching strategies so as to further enhance our student’s individual snow sports learning experiences. How: Interacting with your peers – going beyond the teaching model: from what you already know to exploring new possibilities for creating great teaching and learning and have fun doing it!

This PDS if for all snowboard instructors pursuing certification or seeking a technical update. Topics may include: • Beyond the Beginner: Teaching Intermediates • Freestyle concepts and instruction techniques • AASI Snowboard Manual & Video review; exam preparation study lesson • Movement Analysis…why is it important? How do you use it? How is video analysis useful? • Review static exercises and how they can apply to various activities. What is the link between the fundamental movements and the fat that we use those to invoke the performance concepts… • National Snowboard Standards…What has changed? How to get the most out of this fun document. • What is your stance…is it keeping you upright?