How to get most out of the course The Advanced Instructor course is about training and learning. The results of this process are that you will improve performance and develop skills, understanding and attitudes that relate to snowsports and instructing. Engage fully in this process, remaining open, positive and willing to change.
The trainer will choose and create the environment and context in which learning can occur. Assist in this by telling your trainer what learning situations are helpful to you. The training is centred around you, the learner, who has learning needs. The trainer will gain an understanding of your needs over the first few days of the course and monitor this continually over the duration. Your part in this is to help your trainer understand your needs by speaking with them directly. You will have learning goals and the trainer will have training goals. Together you will dovetail these goals to generate a climate in which change can occur. Over the duration of the course you will become more aware of how you learn. Stay receptive to this, as it will help you to become a more effective learner and instructor.
Before you attend the Advanced Instructor course read the workbook and the sections of the BASI Manual, which are referred to in the workbook.
As on all BASI courses there is a full programme of training. It is your responsibility to adequately prepare yourself mentally and physically for this programme of training. During the course organise yourself effectively and gain sufficient rest so that you can experience the full benefit of the training. The trainer delivering the course has a great deal of experience in snowsport teaching. He/she is a valuable resource for you to gain knowledge and skills, therefore take every opportunity to enquire and to ask questions. The Advanced Instructor course workbook is a tool to help record your progress throughout the course. Once the course has been completed the workbook will become a very useful resource, full of useful information and ideas, therefore take time and effort during the course to develop it as such.
About the course
Introduction
The Advanced Instructor course is the second module of the BASI system of training and certification for working on Dryslope’s and indoor snowcentres. It is the training and assessment that leads to becoming a British Snowsports Instructor.
Once you have successfully completed the Advanced Instructor course and Safeguarding Children Modules, you can be registered on the Association’s database as full member and will receive the licence, in house journal, 'BASI News' and all other full member’s benefits.
Content
The content of the Instructor course comprises the following topics:
The Central Theme
Fundamental Elements
The Five Strands
Introduction Freestyle
Observation, analysis and evaluation of performance
Use of the rating scales and the profile chart
Action planning
Planning, delivering and evaluating teaching sessions
Teaching tools, methods and understanding the learner
Customer Care
Developmental activities
Slope hazards and risk assessment
Dealing with accidents and emergencies
Slope awareness and snowsport safety
Use of snowsport equipment and learning resources
The Advanced Instructor course aims to build upon the skills and knowledge developed during the Level 1 Instructor course and the workplace experience you may have undertaken.
Delivery
Each day will consist of:
Up to five hours of on slope training
Two hours of lectures, discussions, tutorials and video review
One hour of study
Assessment
Throughout each of the five days of the course the trainer will monitor your participation and performance. He / she will provide frequent, ongoing information to each student on their strengths, areas for change and how to make these changes. To provide the ongoing feedback and evaluation of your performance in all areas your trainer will continually be assessing your performance. It is likely that you will be unaware of this assessment process taking place, because it is a continual process, one that all teachers undertake so that they can provide knowledge of performance to the learner.
Each day you will be asked to review your performance in all areas and also sometimes the performance of your peers. Your trainer will assist you in this review process and you will record your views in the workbook. Towards the end of the course you will have a clear view on your current performance levels and on how to improve. The performance review process will continue in this way during latter part of the course.
Towards the end of the course you will have a great deal of information recorded about your current levels of performance, how these levels relate to the rating scales and about how to improve further. In essence, with guidance and input from your trainer and occasionally in cooperation with your peers you will have generated your own report on your performance levels and created an action plan for further ongoing development. At the end of the course this report will be agreed and confirmed between yourself and your trainer.
The criteria used to assess students can be found in the “Pre-course information booklet”. You should study the following;
1) Primary Objective
2) Enabling Objectives
3) Assessment Criteria
By studying the above students will have a clear idea of what they need to be able to do by the conclusion of the course.
| Venue | Course | Dates | Price | Places Booked | Run By |
| Hemel Hempstead | Alpine UK Advanced Instructor | 01/10/2010 - 10/10/2010 | £505.00 | 3/10 | BASI | Login to Book ► |
| SNO!zone Castleford | Alpine UK Advanced Instructor | 11/10/2010 - 15/10/2010 | £380.00 | 1/10 | BASI | Login to Book ► |
| Tamworth Snowdome | Alpine UK Advanced Instructor | 22/11/2010 - 26/11/2010 | £380.00 | 2/10 | BASI | Login to Book ► |
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