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- Advanced Competencies: <\/strong>The Advanced Competencies serve the same purpose as the Core Competencies, yet they are not named as plainly, so the same trick won\u2019t work. Instead, for the Advanced Competencies, I use a few adjectives, adverbs, or descriptive phrases <\/em><\/strong>to paint a distinct mental image for each competency. Here are some of the words and phrases I use; see if you can guess which word I use for which Competency: Powerful, consistent, playful, aggressive, springy, adaptable, symmetrical, flowing, efficient, dynamic, round, unpredictable, smooth, in-tune with the terrain, driving not surviving, maintain momentum, transfer energy, consistent through inconsistencies.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Riding Skills: <\/strong>For the Riding Skills (and their two components each), I use a verb attached to a specific body part<\/em><\/strong>, to help communicate a single, specific biomechanic that the student can focus on effectively. Here are some of the verbs I like to use; see if you can add a specific body part to each one and associate that combination to a skill or skill component: Bend, Tense, Pinch, Loosen, Drop, Tilt, Twist, Rotate, Swing, Snap, Tighten, Lead, Unwind, Lean, Roll, Flex, Pull, Sink, Tip, Push, Relax, Resist, Release<\/em>.<\/li>\n
- As you may have guessed, Timing and Coordination <\/strong>is a bit different because it deals with altering the performance of one or more of the other skills. Therefore, much like with the Competencies, I use descriptive words <\/em><\/strong>for Timing and Coordination: Longer, Harder, Quicker, Sooner, Less<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I hope these examples help you to \u2018translate\u2019 CASI\u2019s core technical concepts. Remember, the plainer the language you use in your lesson, the more that your students (and you) will understand and learn.<\/strong> <\/p>\n
Next time you\u2019re out teaching, challenge yourself to teach without using a single technical \u2018CASI-word\u2019!<\/p>\n
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\nDom Oshanek<\/strong>
CASI Level 4 Evaluator
National Technical Team Member<\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While we\u2019re full on summer mode, we can still think about or practice in our daily activities some teaching skills that will be useful in our next snowboarding lessons. Here\u2019s a great Teaching Tip from CASI National Technical Team Member Dom Oshanek, about how to use plain language when teaching. There might be some time before you teach your next snowboarding lesson – or maybe not if you are currently teaching somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere – but these teaching skills can use some mileage outside of snowboarding.<\/p>\n
The National Technical Team encourages you to give this tip some thinking and try putting it in practice while speaking or explaining something to the people around you.<\/p>\n
Have fun with it !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":17935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-tech-team-articles"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Blog_Dom.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18046,"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043\/revisions\/18046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- As you may have guessed, Timing and Coordination <\/strong>is a bit different because it deals with altering the performance of one or more of the other skills. Therefore, much like with the Competencies, I use descriptive words <\/em><\/strong>for Timing and Coordination: Longer, Harder, Quicker, Sooner, Less<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Riding Skills: <\/strong>For the Riding Skills (and their two components each), I use a verb attached to a specific body part<\/em><\/strong>, to help communicate a single, specific biomechanic that the student can focus on effectively. Here are some of the verbs I like to use; see if you can add a specific body part to each one and associate that combination to a skill or skill component: Bend, Tense, Pinch, Loosen, Drop, Tilt, Twist, Rotate, Swing, Snap, Tighten, Lead, Unwind, Lean, Roll, Flex, Pull, Sink, Tip, Push, Relax, Resist, Release<\/em>.<\/li>\n