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Alpine Level 3 Teaching Skills: Lesson Planning and Implementation

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Date: Thursday, December 11, 2025 from 8:45 am - 4:00 pm
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Event Type: Prep Clinic

Location: Snowbird (Use Entry 1 (Creekside) Meet outside in the Gad Valley Mtn School meeting area, just west of Gad Zoom lift.)

Registration Information:
- First Chair Rate: $115.00 (available through Wednesday, November 26)
- Last Chair Rate: $140.00
- CEUs: 6

Prerequisites: Current PSIA-AASI Membership, Alpine level 2 certification required to register

Registration Deadline: Thursday, November 27, 2025, 11:59 pm

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Online Registration: CLOSED

Late registration may be available with a $25 late fee. Contact the office at (303) 987-9390 or admin@psia-i.org for more information.

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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: Elevate participants' ability to deliver fun, engaging, and high-quality intermediate to advanced lessons for real-world guests, thereby preparing for the Level 3 Teaching Assessment standard.

Recommended Preparatory Learning: Alpine Level 3 Movement Analysis: Applying Technical

Understanding to Performance Skiing, Alpine Level 3 Skiing Skills Clinic

Prerequisites: Alpine Level 2 Certification

Clinic Outcomes: By the end of this 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:

• Clinic leaders may demonstrate some of the elements to model collaboration, initial experience development, clear and progressive communication, proper pacing, and effective lesson review.
• 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.

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.

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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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