Optional Courses
A Conversation With Fear – Indoor – 1 Credit
Designed to help instructors discover how to deal with the psychological diversity that goes along with leading a group of students in the mountain environment.
Anatomy – Indoor – 1 Credit
Study the normal structure of the human body. Special attention is given to the skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems.
Exercise Physiology– Indoor – 1 Credit
Provides an overview of the effects of muscular activity upon the human body and its response and adaptation to stress.
Functional Movement Screen - Indoor – 1 Credit
A ranking and grading system created to document movement patterns that are key to normal function. By screening these patterns, functional limitations and asymmetries are readily identified. Basic movement pattern limitations can reduce the effects of functional training, physical conditioning, and distort proprioception (body awareness). At the heart of the system is the Functional Movement Screen Score which helps to target the problem and track progress. The scoring system is directly linked to the most beneficial corrective exercises to restore mechanically sound movement patterns.
Motor Learning – Indoor – 1 Credit
Designed to familiarize participants with the structure and function of neural tissue. To introduce principles of neurophysiology that are vital to an understanding of the nervous system’s capabilities, how it coordinates the activities of the body’s organ systems, and how these activities are adjusted to meet the changing situations and environmental conditions of the alpine world.
Outdoor First Care - Indoor – 1 Credit
A basic First Aid / First Responder Course appropriate for snowsports teachers. Learn basic fist aid practices for dealing with accidents and injuries in the outdoor classroom environment.
Skiing with All Your Smart Parts – Indoor – 1 Credit
Participants discuss the use of multiple intelligences in their lessons and explore ways to adapt the model to their own teaching!
Stance and Alignment – Indoor – 1 Credit
Course content will help participants break down and understand the skier system, leading to improved movement analysis. Course conductors will examine lower extremity anatomy and function, varying boot constructions, footbed casting techniques and different nuances of each system. Course leaders will also discuss heel lifts, toe lifts, Q-angel, and cant measuring protocols, and help participants understand how to assess a guest’s equipment needs.
Teaching Skiing In Spanish – Indoor – 1 Credit
Course content will provide a very general guide for ski instructors with no knowledge of the Spanish language interested in teaching Spanish-speaking people to ski. Course will present basic ski vocabulary, simple phrases, and names of ski equipment and parts of the human body. Class instructions based on ATS phraseology. This is NOT a course for Spanish speakers.
Varying Student Populations – Indoor – 1 Credit
Examine the diversity of teaching strategies available for meeting the special challenges and issues of teaching women and seniors.
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