Instructor Training

Rossfra8 wrote:A good friend of mine has been offered work with CSIA level ONE yes, level one, in both Switzerland and Italy. 99% of European resorts (ex France) accept level 2 and actively employ those to that level provided they are of a proficient skiing standard. Level 3's have to be pretty handy. All the levels are accessible to anyone with the prerequisite level-does not mean they will pass them.

ah.. Switzerland, it's a mess here, most anyone can teach if they want practically without qualification at all. I suspect if you hurt someone they'd start asking what your qualifications were.

I'm not sure about teaching other places, for example, in both Andorra and Austria you'd need to accredit under the local schemes even if a BASI 1/2 or CSIA 1/2 were technically accepted.

Don't forget, proper ski schools can offer training posts to 1's and 2's, where they'd be paid and teaching. It's as good as anything of course.

ise wrote:for Austria, I just found this :

http://www.peakleaders.com/austriaskiinstructorcourse.asp

That's interesting, you'd need German of course for that.

This sounds very interesting indeed. I've got a basic (roughly A/S standard) knowledge of German already, so at the very least I would have a strong base to build on. I'm really very tempted by that course, especially considering its 'guarantee' of work, though I'm not sure how much I believe it.

Gooseh wrote:
This sounds very interesting indeed. I've got a basic (roughly A/S standard) knowledge of German already, so at the very least I would have a strong base to build on. I'm really very tempted by that course, especially considering its 'guarantee' of work, though I'm not sure how much I believe it.

Peak Leaders have a good reputation, I think you can take their guarantee at face value there. If you've got some grounding in German I'd take advantage of that, it's an asset to be used.