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Alpine Level 2 Lesson Planning and Implementation

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Date: Friday, January 15, 2027 from 8:45 am - 4:00 pm
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Event Type: Prep Clinic

Location: Park City Canyons Village (Umbrella Bar at the top of the Cabriolet - meet at Umbrella Bar at the top of Cabriolet)
All participants in winter events at Park City are required to wear a helmet. If you do not wear a helmet you will not be able to attend the event you signed up for. If you do not have a helmet, Park City will provide them free of charge at the rental shop on the day of the event. Please check the resort website for all parking information.

Registration Information:
- First Chair Rate: $115.00 (available through Thursday, December 31)
- Last Chair Rate: $140.00
- CEUs: 6
- Spots Remaining: 6 (as of 47 minutes ago)

Prerequisites: Current PSIA-AASI Membership, Alpine level 1 certification required

Registration Deadline: Friday, January 1, 2027, 11:59 pm


Online Registration: Click here to register.

Scholarships are available to current PSIA-AASI Intermountain members to help support their education.


Course Description:

Duration: 1 Day On Snow, 6 CEUs Qualifies for both Assessment Prep and Continuing Education.


Learning Connection Highlight: Teaching and People Skills Clinic


Description:

This clinic will elevate participants' ability to deliver fun, engaging, and high-quality intermediate lessons for real-world guests, thereby preparing for the Level 2 Teaching Assessment standard.


Recommended Preparatory Learning: Alpine Level 2 Movement Analysis: Building Frameworks for Cause and Effect


Prerequisites: Alpine Level 1 Certification


Clinic Outcomes: By the end of the clinic, participants will demonstrate and practice:

  • Observation-Driven Lesson Planning: Assessing real-time skier performance, desires, and motivations to design customized, student-centric lesson plans.
  • Engaging Guest Delivery: Sustaining a high-quality, fun, and compelling learning environment that keeps guests fully invested from the initial activity throughout the entire experience.
  • Progressive & Adaptable Teaching: Executing a logical sequence of tailored experiences and activities while fluidly adjusting terrain and difficulty to match shifting student performance and needs.


Clinic Experiences:

  • Collaborative Planning: Clinic leaders will facilitate participants strategy & implementation to collaborate with students to develop plans with a clear direction and focus.
  • Playful Starts & Pacing: Participants will recognize how to create initial adventures or experiences that are playful and exploratory to launch the lesson. Participants will demonstrate clear, logical, and well-paced progressions that can be adapted on the fly while offering deep opportunities for practice, play, and skill understanding. Identify how to make appropriate, impactful terrain choices for various activities.
  • Reflective Questioning & Review: Participants will explore utilizing purposeful questioning skills, encouraging students to actively recognize, reflect upon, and assess their own learning. The group will participate in ongoing review and reflection of all clinic activities.
  • Clinic leaders may demonstrate some of the elements to model collaboration, initial experience development, clear and progressive communication, proper pacing, and effective lesson review.


Additional Event Details:
Associate Members (those who are unaffiliated with a member school) are required to provide their own lift ticket/pass to clinics and exams. If you have a season pass, please check the dates you are attending against blackout dates.


All PSIA-AASI members must follow the PSIA-AASI code of conduct.

All members participating in an Intermountain clinic or assessment must wear a helmet when sliding on snow using lift-accessed terrain. 

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