This is a compilation of blogs, podcasts, and webinars that have previously been published on thesnowpros.org and/or in past issues of 32 Degrees. These resources can help set you up for success in the upcoming season. If you don’t see what you are looking for in this post, follow the respective links for more educational and insightful content. Enjoy!
Blogs
The SnowPros blog is a wealth of information to help set you up for a successful winter season. We chose two blogs to highlight below. To access all published blogs follow this link.
Feed-Forward Reflection: Using Performance Guides in Your Daily Teaching
By Dave Schuiling, PSIA-AASI Director of Education & Credentialing
As snowsports instructors, every lesson we teach is a two-way experience. You focus on your students’ motivations, goals, and progress – helping them unlock new skills, guiding them toward greater confidence, and celebrating the breakthroughs achieved together on snow. However, your own professional growth is also important and depends on turning inward and reflecting on how you performed as an educator. READ MORE.
32 degrees: THe Real and Ideal in New hire training
This article by Mark Aiken was published in the Fall 2023 Issue of 32 Degrees.
Come October, November, and December, resorts across the country will be prepping newly hired instructors – the future of our profession – for their first seasons. If you’re a seasoned snowsports professional, think back to your training as a new hire. Was it life-changing? Too much information? Indoors? On snow? A combination of both? The fact that you kept at this teaching thing must mean you got something out of it… and your trainers saw something in you. Well done.
If this is your first season out of the gates – or you have a training role within your ski or ride school – the following insights can help set the scene for your success. READ MORE.
Webinars
Webinars are another great way to learn and develop as a snowpro. We’ve recorded and archived them so you can access this wealth of information whenever and wherever you’d like.
Access all recorded PSIA-AASI webinars here.
Mentorship and Training Webinar
Led by PSIA Alpine Team member Zoe Mavis, you’ll learn valuable ways to seek out mentorship, get practical training on best practices, and hear shared innovative ideas.
Nutrition Workshop – Fueling for the Mountain Webinar
Led by Makayla Meixner, MS, RDN, Sports Dietician. As ski and snowboard instructors, we are pros at making sure our clients’ needs are met, but often ignore our own. In this webinar, you’ll learn why nutrition is so important for keeping energy levels high during your workday, what foods to focus on, and how fueling properly can help prevent burnout — even through the busy, holiday work stretches.
Podcasts
We’ve included a few highlights of past podcasts below. You can listen to the PSIA-AASI First Chair Podcast here.
Providing Effective Feedback with Melodie Buell
Northwest examiner and now National Team member Melodie Buell is the education and training manager for Oregon Adaptive Sports and a lead trainer for Mt. Bachelor Ski and Ride School. George and Melodie chat about effective feedback and the importance of delivering it in a way that students can enjoy. Melodie talks about people and teaching skills, as well as the importance of the instructor adapting to the student’s needs, rather than the other way around.
Breaking Bias: Coaching HER & Elevating Women in Snowsports
For this pod we brought Nicole LaVoi, Ph. D., creator of Coaching HER, a digital education platform designed to help coaches and instructors better support female athletes, on to chat. Developed by the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota, it provides evidence-based resources to address gender bias, foster inclusivity, and enhance coaching effectiveness. PSIA-AASI members have free access to Coaching HER to improve their instruction.
Josh Fogg Shares Tips on How to Achieve Your Education Goals
PSIA Alpine Team member Josh Fogg chats about how he is combining ideas about how he teaches movement with his technical understanding of skiing and how he works toward achieving his goals. Learn from Josh’s insight and find takeaways for your own approach. Read more about Josh’s goals here: tiny.cc/JoshGoals