Learn to Teach - Skateboarding - A Certification Course
What you'll learn
- By the end of this course you will learn how to teach skateboarding whether to a brand new student or to someone with more advanced skills.
- The Teaching Model sets you up for success no matter which move you are teaching & how to give proper feedback.
- What the different learning styles are so you can tailor each lesson to your audience.
- You will feel confident that you have all the tools you need to start teaching skateboarding for love and/or money.
Requirements
- You will need a computer or other device that will allow you to watch/read all text/video lectures. You will need to be able to video tape your self performing the 8 moves. You will need to be able to reach out to the Examiner Trish at SkateIA dot org and you will need to be able to set up a class one to two students/friends and videotape and download your teaching one skill as designated by the Examiner
Description
With this course you will be given the tools to learn how to teach skateboarding. You will learn the basic Teaching Model which serves as your class outline from introduction to review, you will learn how to break down each skill into three easy to understand steps and how to clearly communicate those steps to your students. You will learn how to manage your class effectively and safely. You will learn about what makes for a great teacher so you can become one as well. Live sessions will give you a chance to practice teaching each of the steps. You will be given quizzes throughout the course to reinforce your learning. You will become certified when you pass 80% in each category of a written test based on lectures, a skills test where you send in a video of the 8 moves and a 15 minute video of you teaching three students/friends, how to perform a particular move (such as a manual).
Who this course is for:
- Proficient Skateboarders who can complete all eight of the moves: basic push, front/backside turns, Manual, Tic Tac, Ollie and with some proficiency, but to a lesser degree than the first five: Nollie, Kick Flip & Heel Flip
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 62 Reviews
- 172 Students
- 1 Course
Director, owner of Skate Instructors Association for North and South America. Our company is the only certification course that can offer insurance to members for both skateboarding and inline/quad (rollerblade and roller skates) skating. I run summer Skateboard Camps in Seattle and also run Skate Journeys Skate School which is the largest inline/quad skate school of it's kind in the world (inline). With 46 instructors we have more instructors than any other school and we offer 6 levels of classes to kids and adults throughout the year. Skate Journeys is a non-profit providing free classes to those who need it, including an entire free program to the refugee school via Seattle Public Schools. Skate IA was started in 2004 on the heels of the closure of ICP/IISA North America and I have been running it since 2009.