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Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2026 from 8:45 am - 4 pm MT
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Event Type: Prep Clinic
Location: Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (Inside the Solitude Building (Sweetwater Gondola Midstation))
IMPORTANT: You will need to pick up your J card prior to boarding the gondola in Cafe 6311 in the Bridger Center. Please note that you will not be able to store gear in the Solitude Building and will need to leave it at the base or in your car prior to going up the lift.
Host Division: Intermountain
Registration Information:
- First Chair Rate: $115.00 (available through Tuesday, January 27)
- Last Chair Rate: $140.00
- CEUs: 6
Prerequisites: Current PSIA-AASI Membership, Alpine level 2 certification required to register
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 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 3 Assessment.
Continuing Education Goal: Enhance participants' ability to administer a fun, engaging and quality lesson for guests through the advanced 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 deliver a logical progression of experiences, activities, exercises, and/or games that culminate in a memorable lesson.
- The ability to influence learning by continually assessing and adapting to ongoing 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 progressive communication of information, and pacing of activities/practice, and effective review/reflection of the lesson.
- Clinic leaders will facilitate participants' ability to practice collaborating with students to develop a plan with a common theme that allows for individualized experiences and optimizes student engagement in the learning process.
- Clinic leaders will facilitate participants' ability to continually assess and adapt pacing of activities to allow for individual customization within the common theme.
- Clinic leaders will facilitate participants' ability to manage activities to provide ample opportunity for practice, play and exploration in order to develop student's own understanding of performance.
- Clinic leaders will facilitate participants' ability to adapt activities to accommodate individual differences in performance and understanding as they occur.
- Clinic leaders will facilitate participants' ability to ask purposeful questions that encourage the student's ability to recognize, reflect upon and assess the experiences to enhance understanding and application.
- 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.

