Green Passport Series
SKI
The Beginner Lesson
Learning Outcome:
Participants of this clinic will gain an in-depth understanding of the beginner lesson.
Learning Objectives:
· Identify and understand the segments of the beginner progression
· Understand basic cause and effect relationships between body and ski performance
· Understand what makes a lesson a guest-centered experience
· Understand why each component is used for skill acquisition
Learning Experiences:
· Participants experience beginner progression concepts to while applying them to their personal skiing.
· Discussions around how these concepts relate to the beginner student
· Teaching cycle, Teaching Model, Teaching Styles, Learning Styles.
· Demonstration, imitation, correction and repetition of the PSIA beginner progression.
Assessment of Learning:
· Displays student-centric presentation of beginner progression
· Understands guest centered service
· Uses basic cause and effect relationships to guide the student’s progression and feedback
· Identifies how the beginner progression supports higher level skiing
Common Issues and How to Fix Them
Learning Outcome:
Build knowledge base of common movement patterns and trends widely seen in beginner lessons.
Learning Objectives:
· Identify common movement patterns
· Build knowledge base of trends in beginner lessons
· Understand why we typically see what we see
· Develop tools to guide beginners back to a successful movement pattern
Learning Experiences:
· Review beginner progression
· Explore how the fundamentals are used to do this successfully
· Explore how and why beginner students commonly find themselves using different blends of fundamentals that result in problems down the road
· Discuss basic ski to body performance cause and effect relationships
· Practice drills that represent contemporary PSIA movement patterns
· Practice teaching scenarios with appropriate drills and progressions
Assessment of Learning:
· Demonstrates working knowledge of PSIA beginner progression
· Understands appropriate blend of fundamentals in beginner skiers
· Has understanding of basic cause and effect relationships
· Uses accurate ski and body performance when demonstrating
· Can articulate why common problems are common
Performance Skiing of Low End Tasks
Learning Outcome:
Develop precision of low end demos
Learning Objectives:
· Understand basic ski to body cause and effect relationships
· Accurately demonstrate the ski and body performance needed for a beginner skier to be successful
· Develop accuracy and consistency in demos
Learning Experiences:
· Boot work
· One-ski drills
· Wedge
· Wedge Christy
· Basic Parallel
Assessment of Learning:
· Demonstrates accurate movement patterns representative of the fundamentals
· Understand how low end movements patterns apply to high end skiing
· Can identify ski to body cause and effect relationships
Task Skiing
Learning Outcome:
Ownership of how to accurately demonstrate certification level one tasks
Learning Objectives:
· Refine body performance to facilitate appropriate ski performance
· Develop awareness of movements and ability to self-coach
Learning Experiences:
· Sideslips in fall line
· Guided uphill arcs
· Carved uphill arcs
· Step turn to fall line
· Straight run to J-Turn
· Basic Parallel
· Basic Parallel in Variable terrain
Assessment of Learning:
· Understands Level I Ski IDP assessment criteria
· Can Identify and discuss ski to body performance joint specific movements
· Demonstrates appropriate adjustments for different snow surfaces
· Understands ski snow interaction for different snow surfaces
· Can give feedback addressing adjustments to ski and body performance in different conditions
What is Good Skiing
Learning Outcome:
Gain awareness and understanding of the variety of movement pools that produce good skiing
Learning Objectives:
· Identify the five fundamentals of PSIA
· Detect PSIA fundamentals in a variety of different styles of skiing
· Gain knowledge base of how fundamentals are applied in beginner lessons
Learning Experiences:
· Indoor presentation of PSIA Fundamentals and movement analysis
· Practice Movement Analysis
· On snow exploration of PSIA Fundamentals.
Assessment of Learning:
· Can discuss and displays an understanding of PSIA Fundamentals
· Can accurately demonstrate highlighted movements represent vie of each fundamental
· Can relate ski performance to body performance to PSIA Fundamental
The Great Beginner Lesson
Learning Outcome:
Learn why beginner students are so important to our industry and how to make the beginner lesson more fun and enjoyable while giving the guest measurable success.
Learning Objectives:
· Understand why beginners are important to the survival of our industry
· Gain tools to provide a guest centered lesson focused on client retention
Learning Experiences:
· Review NSAA and PSIA-AASI industry statistics
· Develop tools for bag of tricks
· Explore multiple learning pathways
· Class handling and group dynamics
· Empathy and perspective
Assessment of Learning:
· Understand the importance of the first time experience
· Demonstrates multiple ways to cater to the guest needs
· Understands guest centered teaching
How People Learn
Learning Outcome:
Gain understanding of different teaching theories that will help you better understand the way people learn to better tailor your lesson plans to individuals within a group setting.
Learning Objectives:
· Develop ability to deliver students centric teaching
· Understand resort-specific product knowledge
· Use guest goals and expectations to create a guest-centered experience
· Understand town/village/ community offerings
Learning Experiences:
· Blooms Taxonomy
· Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs
· Constructivism Theory
· Cooperative Learning Groups
· Zone of Proximal Development
Assessment of Learning:
· Can discuss principles of how learning is most effective
· Understands the purpose of student centric teaching practices
· Can build progressions focused on the students individual needs
· Uses learning theory’s to asses students attention and comprehension
Setting up a Safe Learning Environment.
Learning Outcome:
Tour teaching areas and beginner terrain to highlight high risk areas, explore safe class handling, Kids on Lifts, and incorporate safety into teaching tactics.
Learning Objectives:
· Understand Kids on Lifts and chairlift safety
· Identify best practices for keeping yourself safe
· Identify how to safely move groups and coach students to interact safely with the other skiers and snowboarders
Learning Experiences:
· Kids on lifts protocol Explore tactics for knee safety, safely observing guests without sliding and twisting to look behind, using the 5Ts, instilling the no passing rule, creating a personal bubble, and the Lemon Theory.
· While touring the beginner areas, discuss observations around safety about class handling, movement of traffic, and positioning of instructors and students in the space.
· Review collision policy and Ski Patrol phone numbers and interactions.
Assessment of Learning:
· Understands and applies Kids on Lifts policies.
· Possesses a variety of tactics to enhance safety for themselves and guests understand how traffic tends to move in beginner areas,
· Understands how and when to contact Ski Patrol.
Green Passport Series
SNOWBOARD
The Beginner Lesson, Levels 1-4
Learning Outcome:
Gain an in-depth understanding of the beginner lesson.
Learning Objectives:
· Identify and understand the segments of the beginner progression
· Understand how fundamental body movements effect board performance
· Understand how the beginner progression components provide skill acquisition
· Understand how to create a guest-centered experience within a lesson
Learning Experiences:
· Present and apply beginner progression concepts to participants’ personal riding through the riding concepts, while exploring how these concepts relate to a beginner rider.
· Present and apply AASI Teaching and Learning Concepts to participants, Explore how these concepts apply to guest-centered teaching, teaching and learning models, and teaching and learning styles/ preferences.
· Practice the beginner progression concepts and receive feedback on demonstration tasks for beginner riders.
Assessment of Learning:
· Shows comfort in the concepts of and presenting each segment of the beginner progression.
· Can speak to the importance of guest-centered teaching, based on teaching and learning concepts and models.
· Can verbalize and connect fundamental movement patterns to board performance outcomes in the beginner progression.
· Understands how the beginner progression ties to higher level riding.
Common Issues and How to Fix Them
Learning Outcome:
Explore common issues via cause and effect relationships between the fundamental body movements and board performances which may occur in a beginner lesson, and learn to present guest-centered teaching solutions.
Learning Objectives:
· Understand and apply reference alignments, fundamental body movements, and board performances resulting in an outcome associated with beginner riders
· Understand and apply MA Model to beginner riders
· Understanding and apply teaching models to beginner riders
· Identify common movement patterns and board performance outcomes
· Identify and understand how phases of the turn relate to MA
· Understand how to creatively coach to more efficient and effective beginner riders
Learning Experiences:
· Apply the MA Model (OEP) in relation to a beginner rider, demonstrating how to build a cause and effect relationship between the body, board, and outcome.
· Present AASI Riding Concepts to participants and relate how these concepts apply to a beginner rider.
· Discuss common issues which may occur in the beginning lesson and ride through positions often seen.
· Create multiple teaching solutions to these common issues, based on guest-centered teaching Practice linking cause and effect relationships and receive feedback on corrective demonstration tasks for beginner riders.
· Practice beginner MA concepts
Assessment of Learning:
· Shows comfort in the concepts of Movement Analysis and presenting cause and effect relationships for the beginner rider.
· Can identify and speak to common movement patterns and outcomes which may occur in the beginner lesson.
· Shows versatility in coaching fundamental body movements and board performances. Demonstrates understanding of how beginner movements tie to higher level riding.
Be an Expert Beginner
Performance snowboarding of low end tasks (Straight Run, J-Turn, Sideslip, Falling Leaf, Traverse, Garland, C-Turn, Linked C-Turns) and relation to freestyle
Learning Outcome:
Explore body-specific movements to achieve performance snowboarding in beginner lessons and for beginner demonstrations.
Learning Objectives:
· Refine skill set for beginner demonstrations
· Understand reference alignments, fundamental body movements, and board performances in creating performance riding
· Understand body specific movements and the effect on the snowboard
· Understand and apply Riding Concepts to beginner riders
· Improve ability to apply body-part-specific feedback
· Develop a better understanding of how beginner movements tie to higher level riding
Learning Experiences:
· Apply AASI Riding Concepts to beginner riders and demonstrations.
· Explore how each step of the beginner progression is designed to develop a skill set (body and board) for riding and freestyle.
· Link these fundamental skill sets to higher levels of riding.
· Practice riding through each skill set associated with each step of the beginner progression.
· Practice beginner performance demonstrations
Assessment of Learning:
· Demonstrates beginner tasks with clear and desired movements with the ability to speak to the skill set behind each task.
· Demonstrates their ability to identify and coach to body-specific movements
· Demonstrates an understanding of how beginner skill sets tie to higher level riding.
Task Snowboarding &Freestyle for Level 1
Learning Outcome:
Exposure to Snowboard Level Certification 1 tasks and skill sets while riding on the associated terrain.
Learning Objectives:
· Develop and refine skill sets for Cert. 1 riding tasks
· Understand how body movements effect the desired outcome
· Understand and apply Riding Concepts for Cert. 1
· Ability to apply body-part-specific feedback to personal riding
· Understand the Cert. 1 riding standards, including most-extended at edge change timing, intensity, and duration
· Gain better understanding of how Cert.1 skill sets and most-extended at edge movements tie to higher level riding
Learning Experiences:
· Apply AASI Riding Concepts to the Cert. 1 standard.
· Practice of the most-extended at edge change movement pattern.
· Practice the blending of fundamental movement patterns to effect board performance and desired outcomes.
· Practice riding through each skill set associated with each task, receive individualized feedback, and apply it to their own riding. Skidded turns- Forward, closed, medium, using alignment on groomed blue
· Carved turns- Forward, closed, large, using alignment on groomed green
· Switch- Skidded, open, medium, aligned on groomed green
· Bumps- Forward, skidded, closed, large, using alignment on green/blue
· Flatland- Ollie/ nollie, nose/ tail press, flatland 360s on groomed green
· Jumps- Straight airs on small jump
· Boxes- 50/50 on introductory box
· Half Pipe- Edge change in transition of pipe or on transitional feature
· Link these fundamental skill sets to advancing personal riding and to the Cert. 1 standards and beyond.
Assessment of Learning:
· Demonstrates Cert. 1 tasks with clear and desired movements with the ability to speak to the skill set behind each task.
· Demonstrates most-extended at edge change patterns and blending of fundamental body movements to effect board performance
Demonstrates an understanding of how beginner skill sets tie to higher level riding.
Efficient and Effective Snowboarding
Making connections between what the body is doing and how the board reacts (MA)
Learning Outcome:
An indoor, interactive presentation about snowboarding fundamental body movements and board performances relating to the AASI movement analysis process, with the opportunity for guided practice outdoors.
Learning Objectives:
· Develop and refine understanding and application of the AASI Movement Analysis process and model (OEP)
· Develop understanding of use of fundamental body movements and board performances, reference alignments, and phases of the turn
· Apply Riding Concepts to MA
· Improve ability to create cause and effect relationships
· Explore video analysis and technical aspects of riding
Learning Experiences:
· Present AASI MA model
· Watch video of beginner riders to demonstrate and practice MA.
· Demonstrate several approaches to the MA process with a focus on guest-centered language and allow for practice.
· Watch beginner students on snow and practice MA process and vocabulary with peers.
· Ride through and discuss common beginner positions to better understand the body to board to outcome relationships.
Assessment of Learning:
· Understands cause and effect relationships. (Body to Board to Outcome) for beginner riders.
· Demonstrates the use guest-centered language with MA relationships.
· Uses the AASI MA process for video analysis.
How People Learn
Learning Outcome:
Attend an interactive presentation about different teaching theories, which will aid in better understanding of how people learn, and allow for more individualization within group settings.
Learning Objectives:
· Develop and refine understanding of various teaching theories and methodologies
· Understand how various teaching theories apply to snowsports instruction
· Understand how to tailor lessons to meet the need of individuals in a groups setting
Learning Experiences:
· Present Blooms Taxonomy (CAP Model), Kolb’s Learning Styles, Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Constructivism Theory, Cooperative Learning Group methodology, and Zone of Proximal Development. (Any other relevant theories or methodologies may be included.)
· Demonstrate how these teaching theories relates to one another.
· Discuss real-life teaching examples and how to apply each teaching theory
· Role play through various teaching scenarios and apply teaching theories.
Assessment of Learning:
· Can speak to an example of each teaching theory in relation to their experience.
· Participants will create a lesson plan for various types of lessons, incorporating how teaching theories aid in the learning process
The Great Beginner Lesson
Learning Outcome:
Attend a presentation on the importance of the beginner student and how to create a fun, enjoyable, and engaging lesson with measurable success for the student, with the opportunity for on-snow experience practice.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the importance of the beginner snowboarders to the snowsports industry survival
Understand statistics related to overall number of beginner lessons, return rates to lessons, overall retention of students, etc.
Understand your role in maintaining a healthy/ growing industry
Develop use of multiple tools, teaching tactics, and dynamics to effect the beginner rider
Learning Experiences:
Present NSA, PSIA, and AASI findings and statistics on the impact of the beginner student on the snowsports industry and its survival.
Facilitate a group discussion on instructor impact on the beginner student.
Discuss multiple ways to add variation to the beginner lesson to positively impact the beginner snowboarder.
Practice incorporating group dynamic tactics, bag of trick variations, and tailoring to multiple learning pathways outdoors.
Assessment of Learning:
Understands their impact on the snowsports industry in regard to the beginner student and survival of the industry.
Can demonstrate the use of a new tool from their bag of tricks, focused on retaining the beginner student.