Tuesday, January 26
After all the rain yesterday, there was no place to ski from here to Maine, so Beth and Austin showed us a video about Telemark skiing. Beth presented more theory and we were assigned in pairs to research and present a topic in an hour. Jen and I reviewed and designed a Power Point summary on the Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) Level 1 certification exam.
We also were assigned topics to present tomorrow related to Core Concepts for Snowsports Instructors which is used in all 4 snowsport modalities: Alpine, Nordic, Adaptive, and Snowboarding, and the Nordic Technical Manual. We'll use a 3 part teaching system: Visual Cues, Skills Concepts, Stepping Stones. Jen and I will present the same topic of relaxation but separately. We need to:
1. teach the concept with activities
2. come up with a one sentence statement as to why relaxation is important and describe the concept
3. give a demo
4. teach the skill to learn concept and allow practice time
5. give feedback on the presentation
Then, Austin found a spit of snow in a campus field and we went out to practice our drills while he filmed us so we can review tomorrow. . . before we go skiing. And, there were little flakes that fell just in time for our filming.
Tomorrow, somewhere west of us, they found a place that apparently still has some amount of snow on the ground and we'll be heading there in the morning.
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