PSIA
The PSIA stands for
What is the Professional Ski Instructors of America?
The process of first identifying the desired results, then determining assessment criteria, and only then plannining a learning experience.
What is Backwards Design (Backwards Planning)?
Being able to diagnose a student's skiing into its technical components and identify proper an improper mechanical behaviors.
What is movement analysis?
The 3 skills that make up the Skills Concept
What is pressure control, edge control, and rotatary control?
The starting wage for new instructors at Snow Schoolers
AASI stands for
What is the American Association of Snowboard Instructors?
This person defines the properational stage as when a child (ages 2-6) can use words and images to represent objects but generally cannot yet reason logically.
Who is Piaget?
This type of turn offers beginners balance at slow speeds, a wide base of support, and a slight edge by virtue of the skis position.
What is the wedge?
The imaginary line most directly straight downhill from a given point on the mountain
What is the fall line?
The number of levels in Maslow's hiearchy of needs.
What is 5?
Learning, Safety, and Fun, are all important. The right order of them is:
What is Safety > Fun > Learning
The first (bottom) layer in Maslow's hiearchy of needs
Over-flexing in the knees, not enough ankle flex, or an over-flexed torso are all causes of this type of problem.
What is balance?
Skiers must learn how use this fundamental skill to control the direction the skis are pointed.
What is rotary control?
One of the most significant performance-enhancing changes in the ski design that impacted how students learn to turn.
What is parabolic skis? (deep sidecut)
The annual cost of PSIA member dues (including both national and the Western Division).
What is $119?
The CAP model stands for:
What its Cognitive, Affective, Physical?
Pushing the tails out in a braking wedge [increases / decreases] the edge angle, which [increases / decreases] the pressure to the inside edge.
What is "increases the edge angle", and then also "increases the pressure to inside edge"?
This is defined by when skis slip and slide as they move forward through a turn.
What is a skidded turn?
The number of "skier levels" including first-timers through expert? (not the same as PSIA-AASI certification levels)
What is 9?
The number of PSIA Member Schools in the Western Division.
41 (Snow Schoolers is one of them!)
Before this age, children have difficulty mentally reversing images in their head (and thus have difficulty mimicking an instructor unless the instructor's back is to the child).
What is age 7?
(2-6 yr olds cannot do so generally)
This type of student is mostly likely to have their Center of Mass located highest because their head is large relative to the rest of their body.
What is a child?
Angulation and inclination are associated with this fundamental skill.
What is edge control?
The number of ski areas in Tahoe? (including Kingvale)(points awarded if answer is within 2)
What is 17?