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Date: Monday, December 8, 2025 from 8:45 am - 4 pm MT
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Event Type: Prep Clinic
Location: Alta Ski Area (Albion Grill, at the Albion Base Area (Entry 2) - Upper Lot-Albion Grill)
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Host Division: Intermountain
Registration Information:
- First Chair Rate: $115.00 (available through Monday, November 24)
- Last Chair Rate: $140.00
- CEUs: 6
Prerequisites: Current PSIA-AASI Membership, Alpine level 1 certification required
Registration Deadline: Monday, November 24, 2025, 11:59 pm MT
Online Registration: CLOSED
Offline Registration: Contact the division office.
Course Description:
Description: Teaching Skills Clinic. Full Day, On-Snow. Qualifies as Assessment Prep and Continuing Education
Assessment Prep Goal: Prepare candidates for the teaching segment of the Level 2 Assessment.
Continuing Education Goal: Enhance participants' ability to administer a fun, engaging and quality lesson for guests through the intermediate zone.
Clinic Outcomes: By the end of this clinic, participants will demonstrate:
- How to use observations about skier performance to create a lesson plan.
- The ability to organize and present a lesson that is based on student desires, motivation, abilities.
- How to plan an initial activity to capture the interest of the group.
- How to deliver a logical progression of experiences, activities, exercises, and/or games that culminate in a memorable lesson.
- How to adapt terrain and difficulty to accommodate changes in performance.
Clinic Experiences:
- Clinic leaders may present a 45-60 min. lesson that demonstrates collaboration in determining the outcome, development of an initial experience, clear, logical and progressive communication of information, pacing of activities/practice, and effective review/reflection of the lesson.
- Clinic leaders will facilitate participants' ability to practice collaborating with students in developing a plan that has clear direction and focus.
- Clinic leaders will facilitate participants' ability to develop an initial adventure/experience that is playful and/or exploratory.
- Clinic leaders will facilitate participants' ability to present a clear and logical progression of information and activities that are appropriately paced, can be adapted as needed, and provide opportunity for practice and play that leads to understanding of performance.
- Clinic leaders will facilitate understanding of appropriate terrain choices for activities.
- Clinic Leaders will facilitate participants' ability to ask purposeful questions that help students recognize, reflect upon and assess experiences related to the outcome.
- Clinic leaders will initiate review and reflection of clinic activities as they relate to the clinic outcome.
Additional Event Details:
Associate Members (those who are unaffiliated with a member school) are required to provide their own lift ticket/pass to clinics and exams. If you have a season pass, please check the dates you are attending against blackout dates.

