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Learn more about The Learning Connection in this Interski lecture by PSIA Alpine Team members Jeb and Matt Boyd.
instructor’s teaching skills, technical skills, and people skills – which collectively contribute to the success of both the student and the teacher in any situation. Inspired by the potential to grow snowsports and create more professional development opportunities for PSIA-AASI members, the biggest buy-in for T e Learning Connection is its eff ective simplicity, direct benefi t, and relevance to every aspect of teaching. In fi ve separate multi-disciplinary
presentations (all of which were attended by dozens of instructors from other countries), Team members stated
that: Q PSIA-AASI created this developmental framework to identify the fundamentals of great snowsports instruction.
QT is framework encourages instructors to connect with students by focusing on the learning environment.
QBeing student-centered – which is very diff erent from an instructor-centered approach of simply teaching – is the key to establishing this connection.
at International camaraderie permeates all things Interski.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
THE STUDENT
TEACHING SKILLS
QTo create a true learning partnership, it’s essential that instructors balance the core fundamentals of Technical Skills, People Skills, and Teaching Skills. Depending on the discipline
the center of each
presentation (see below), the Team identifi ed which element of T e Learning Connection would be most benefi cial to U.S. instruction at this time. T ey also challenged the other instructors to ask themselves – as well as the whole U.S. delegation and the international colleagues with whom they interacted – “What are the fundamentals of great teaching?” Specifi cally, materials widely distributed by team members extended this invitation for dialogue: “PSIA-AASI recommends that ski and snowboard lessons be experiential and based on sensations. Of course, Interski is about sharing best practices of snowsports instruction, so what do YOU think are the fundamentals, or the essence, of great teaching that promote an exceptional learning environment? PSIA-AASI invites all nations this week to share ideas about what serves as the core of great teaching.” Of course, this created one gigantic springboard for an incredible week of discussion and shared learning.
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SWAPPING CREATIVE INSTRUCTION IDEAS ACROSS NATIONS As PSIA-AASI Board Chair Ed Younglove noted, “I was really struck by the ability of the PSIA-AASI team to ‘connect’ with each other, of course, but also with the PSIA-AASI members who attended, the Interski participants from other countries, and with our hosts, the Argentinian people of Ushuaia. T ey were simply great ambassadors of PSIA-AASI and the USA!” Younglove said the daily exchange of ideas, innovative presentations, and top- level teaching, establishes an environment that stimulates and encourages better instruction. He added, “I left Ushuaia excited to see what the Team does with the experience in terms of the impact on our future education products and services. While I know the event was a great forum for showing what they have been doing, I could tell some of the information exchanges with other teams also stirred their creative juices. I look
PEOPLE SKILLS
forward to what that will produce.” As every PSIA-AASI member who has taken a clinic with a team member, been a regular reader of 32 Degrees, or participated in the discussions leading up the event on the association’s social media channels knows, the Team put years
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