liquidfeet
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Thank you so much to all of you who are answering my question about the educational component of the Taos Ski Week. I wanted to go with the group this season, and almost did. I'm setting aside $$ for next year's trip, assuming there will be one again.
I am always interested in how people learn. I've been an art teacher all my life, first teaching in high school, then college. Late in life I discovered skiing and became a ski instructor. My background in art instruction is important in how I teach skiing. I was always a "different" art instructor, focusing on technique first, content and innovation last. Many art teachers in the schools where I taught focused primarily on helping students put personally generated content into their work, or on encouraging the student's individual creative impulses. I was the technical drill sergeant in those art departments, insisting that in order to communicate content or do innovative media manipulation the student needed to know the visual language (the technical stuff of art) and what had come before (how others had built that language). Figuring out how to put what I was teaching into words was a big deal for me as a teacher, and I worked with my students to help them use words to describe what they were doing as well so they could help each other. So that's where I'm coming from when I ask what people learned.
On the other hand, one of my favorite trainers, whose teaching I worship, liked to go as wordless as possible in lessons. "Can you do this?" was his approach. But then he doesn't post online .
I am always interested in how people learn. I've been an art teacher all my life, first teaching in high school, then college. Late in life I discovered skiing and became a ski instructor. My background in art instruction is important in how I teach skiing. I was always a "different" art instructor, focusing on technique first, content and innovation last. Many art teachers in the schools where I taught focused primarily on helping students put personally generated content into their work, or on encouraging the student's individual creative impulses. I was the technical drill sergeant in those art departments, insisting that in order to communicate content or do innovative media manipulation the student needed to know the visual language (the technical stuff of art) and what had come before (how others had built that language). Figuring out how to put what I was teaching into words was a big deal for me as a teacher, and I worked with my students to help them use words to describe what they were doing as well so they could help each other. So that's where I'm coming from when I ask what people learned.
On the other hand, one of my favorite trainers, whose teaching I worship, liked to go as wordless as possible in lessons. "Can you do this?" was his approach. But then he doesn't post online .