student-centered teaching

bullpower

Understanding the proficiency of the CSIA methodology

A particular situation occurred to me while I was working at Club Mont-Tremblant.
Each year, a couple would attend the ski week program. The wife would join group
lessons and the husband would take private lessons during lunch time. His objective,
and his wife’s intention was for him to move and slide.

I noticed that he was quite anxious
and so was I. He would meet me every day at noon and it seemed like an arduous task.
We would always go in between the two magic carpets (balance 1 and 2), which is a flat
terrain of 20 meters.

Day after day, we would only slide while using the poles to move around.
The man was happy because I did not impose anything that he could not do. He felt that he
was in good hands due to the fact that I understood his health problem and simply because
I shared the joy of sliding with him. His wife was extremely pleased that her husband would
attend his noon ski lesson instead of staying in the hotel working from a distance for his
company.

I had this client for three winters and each time I was his instructor. The man
did not want anyone else and it probably had to do with the fact that a past instructor
of his demanded more out of him that he could ever give.

Since then, the man passed
away due to his health problems. His wife sent me a letter thanking me for what I was able
to accomplish with her husband and more specifically offering him the simple joy of sliding.
Hugh is always present in my memory when I refer to student-centered teaching, as he is
the most significant example of this theory in application.

luvski

我咋哭了？
“simple joy of sliding”

KuoiGuaBoarder

I like slide too, just to make sure my daughter safe

sonicwithtails

“simple joy of sliding”

So a snowboarder-in-heart mistakenly tried to learn skiing?

tragic.