2016-20 TEAM SELECTION


WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE 2016-20 TEAM


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kay so now that a new PSIA-AASI Team has been selected for the 2016-20 term, what does it mean for you, the PSIA-AASI member? 32 Degrees sat down with PSIA-AASI Director of Education Dave Schuiling to get the skinny and fill you in.


What does the PSIA-AASI Team mean for you and your fellow instructors? You and your PSIA-AASI colleagues are the heart of the association, and the Team represents you in all things it does and develops. Team members serve as mentors, coaches, facilitators, and selfless contributors to the organization’s educational mission and your professional development. Tey keep ski and snowboard instruction on the cutting edge of innovation, serve as training resources for divisions, help drive demand for lessons, and represent American instructors on the world stage. Te Team shoulders these responsibilities with extreme grace and poise.


What will be some of the main areas of focus for this team? Te 2016-20 Team will push education resources and professional development to meet the demands of an evolving snowsports industry by embracing technology, with a focus on learning. Indeed, Te Learning Connection – with its emphasis on technical, teaching, and people skills – provides a framework for many upcoming projects, including the next Core Concepts for Snowsports Instructors manual, to enhance the teaching and learning environment. Continued partnerships with resorts will enable efficient analysis and refinement of the job skills that are crucial to meeting the demands of resort guests and inspiring more participation in lifelong learning in the mountain environment.


What can you expect to see in clinics? Te Team Workshop scheduled for this fall gives the new team an opportunity to build on the camaraderie so evident at the Team Selection event and develop the educational messages and training approaches that will form the foundation of division for the 2016- 17 season and beyond. Te Member School Management Seminar that follows the workshop will also help lay the groundwork for clinic experiences for members.


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To build on the great work of the previous team, I anticipate clinics will address the following three questions and then build


from there: Q What are the attributes of great teaching? QHow do we enhance the Learning Partnership to create the


QHow do we best use the skills honed through ski and snowboard instruction and transfer them to other lifelong endeavors outside of snowsports education?


spark that ignites technical, teaching, and people skills of Te Learning Connection?


What do you think is so unique about the group of people on this team? Te cool thing is that we have multi-discipline representation, united by a single goal of enhancing Te Learning Connection that defines amazing snowsports lessons. Regardless of whether a particular team member slides on skis, a snowboard, or a mono-ski, this team was selected as one true team from the very beginning. Te message was loud and clear coming out of the success from Interski 2015 in Argentina, namely that a unified team of multi-discipline sliders was extremely powerful in the efforts to push Te Learning Connection, drive participation, and work toward a common goal. Within this team, all teaching disciplines are strongly represented – alpine, snowboard, cross country, telemark, and adaptive – as are the “specialist” categories of children’s and freestyle instruction.


Anything else? Te Team has been given the green light, with the support of the PSIA-AASI Board of Directors and the divisions to completely flourish and carry us all through this next term and beyond as we look to provide the very best professional association for the PSIA-AASI membership. I’m excited about the opportunities that lie ahead, and I think PSIA-AASI members will benefit in a major way from the energy, experience, and expertise the 2016-20 team represents.


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