Great resources from PSIA divisions

Intermountain
My thanks to the folks at the Intermountain division for these resources. Also, thanks for a killer steeps clinic at Jackson Hole last year.

Professional Knowledge and Glossary
This is 55 pages of good stuff from teaching concepts to a technical glossary.

Level I Workbook
This workbook and study guide helps provide a framework for your level I prep and quizzes to check progress.

Rocky Mountain
Teaching the Aging Population

Managing Splits & the Family Private

“How” to Communicate with Success

Women are Different

Alpine Instructor Training Course
Another workbook for new instructors and aspiring level 1s

Level 3 Exam Teaching Tips

3-6 Year Old Educator’s Endorsement Workbook

Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Sensory and Motor Development

Kids Accreditation Workbook

Central
Level 1 Study Guide
A bit dated, but still some good information

Level 2 Study Guide
A bit dated, but still some good information

Level 3 Study Guide
A bit dated, but still some good information

Freestyle Accreditation Study Guide
Definately worth a look if you want to teach park and/or pipe

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Learning Styles – Doers, Feelers, Thinkers, Watchers

A learning style is the way a person’s sensory, perceptual, memorial, decision-making, and feedback mechanisms operate. Or more simply, the preferred technique to approach learning. Some students have a dominant style and others are comfortable in more than one. PSIA references different theories on learning styles, this is a classic one. Doers Values active experimentation Pragmatic, practical, functional Good problem solvers, work well with others Constantly active, doesn’t like being idle and gets frustrated with too much talking Learn by experimenting, trial and error Instructor should provide experiences that will guide the child Experiential learning is an effective method for all students

Sarah’s Big Binder of Ski Teaching Geekery (and more!) (Updated/edited as of October, 2015)

UPDATE: October, 2015: This has been updated with new links, programs, and information. Please let us know if you have other references, we promise to update again before 2020! - Kerry (Diva2) Last year when I was preparing for my L3 Part 1 Skiing exam, the Dev Team Diva turned me on to these great task descriptions developed by Bob Barnes for the PSIA Rocky Mountain Division (the Pocket Summaries listed under "Skiing" below). (Kerry's edit: Those pocket summaries are not on the PSIA-RM site anymore. But I think what you're looking for is in the Skiing IDP linked below.) In my search for them online, I discovered lots of other valuable ski teaching resources tucked away on various PSIA divisional Web sites. So I printed them out, organized them into categories, and stuck them in a binder. The binder became an invaluable resource in discussions with my good friend and ski coach as I helped him to prepare for his Dev Team tryout and he coached me to success in my ski...

Quick resource review: Ultimate Skiing by Ron LeMaster

After a fantastic day of on snow coaching yesterday with Jeb Boyd of the PSIA National Team and Arc2Arc , he recommended what appears to be a pretty awesome update of Ron LeMaster's original book The Skier's Edge. By the way, if you ever get a chance to ski with Jeb whether at a PSIA event or through his coaching company - Arc2Arc, go for it. Perusing it on the ride home, the 2009 copyrighted Ultimate Skiing (still by Ron LeMaster) is one of the best modern technical skiing resources I've seen. Great pictures, examples of drills and how to use them, technical discussions, even profiles of US Ski Team athletes. Since I just got my hands on a copy yesterday, I'm still working my way through it but already I've read clear discussions of the apparent but oft-confused centrifugal force (not a vector force!), alignment and center of mass differences between sexes, unweighting moves, analysis of the skill blends under different conditions, assessing forward lean i...

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