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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:

Description: Teaching Skills Clinic. Full Day, On-Snow. Qualifies as Assessment Prep and Continuing Education

Assessment Prep Goal: Prepare candidates for the teaching segment of the Level 3 Assessment.

Continuing Education Goal: Enhance participants' ability to administer a fun, engaging and quality lesson for guests through the advanced zone.

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

• How to use observations about skier performance to create a lesson plan.
• The ability to organize and present a lesson that is based on student desires, motivation, abilities.
• How to deliver a logical progression of experiences, activities, exercises, and/or games that culminate in a memorable lesson.
• The ability to influence learning by continually assessing and adapting to ongoing performance.

Clinic Experiences:

• Clinic leaders may present a 45-60 min. lesson that demonstrates collaboration in determining the outcome, development of an initial experience, clear/logical progressive communication of information, and pacing of activities/practice, and effective review/reflection of the lesson.
• Clinic leaders will facilitate participants' ability to practice collaborating with students to develop a plan with a common theme that allows for individualized experiences and optimizes student engagement in the learning process.
• Clinic leaders will facilitate participants' ability to continually assess and adapt pacing of activities to allow for individual customization within the common theme.
• Clinic leaders will facilitate participants' ability to manage activities to provide ample opportunity for practice, play and exploration in order to develop student's own understanding of performance.
• Clinic leaders will facilitate participants' ability to adapt activities to accommodate individual differences in performance and understanding as they occur.
• Clinic leaders will facilitate participants' ability to ask purposeful questions that encourage the student's ability to recognize, reflect upon and assess the experiences to enhance understanding and application.
• Clinic leaders will initiate review and reflection of clinic activities as they relate to the clinic outcome.



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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