Today was a long but rewarding day of skiing with our students. We had a small group of middle school students come in for lessons, plus several individual visits. We teamed up in pairs to assist a full-time instructor with full-day lessons. Our teaching took us all over the mountain — some students stuck to the small hills, while others headed up to the runs at lift 10, at least 1,000 feet above our adaptive sports office.
It's not really our place to discuss our students' disabilities, but it was rewarding to watch our students make progress over the course of two three-hour blocks on the mountain. The MAB principle poco a poco comes to mind here. In our role as assistants, we weren't out to change anyone's skiing or snowboarding ability drastically, but we loved seeing progress. One snowboarder started a lesson by stopping on an easy run six or seven times. By the end of the day, he would only stop one. Other skiers started their days on the easiest slopes but were able to head up to more advanced runs six hours later.
We ended the day with a few fun runs once our lessons finished up. One of the best parts of this work is that improving our own skiing is a way of improving our teaching and assisting. We won't be hitting the slopes tomorrow because it's a slow lesson day at TASP, but we're looking forward to our next lesson day Thursday and helping out around the office and serving at our alternate site tomorrow.
Happy Taco Tuesday, y'all. Ours were delicious.
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