The process of maintaining accreditation ensures that PMTS Accredited instructors continue to perform at their accredited level and stay current with new information. What we currently envision as requirements to maintaining accreditation follows. As policy evolves, the newsletter and web site will keep you up to date.
To maintain accreditation, an instructor must attend two, two-day clinics every three years. One of these, the "Maintenance Accreditation", is an abbreviated accreditation. It includes one day of coaching on skiing and current teaching, and one day of teaching scenarios. Each instructor will perform two teaching scenarios, and must meet the teaching and skiing standards of his/her current level.
For the other clinic, the instructor may attend any other clinics or camps that are available through PMTS.org or Harb Ski Systems.
Attending a full accreditation session (not a Maintenance Accrediation) and performing successfully at your current level (or higher!) will fulfill both clinic requirements to maintain accreditation.
If the instructor does not perform at his/her current level at the Maintenance Accreditation ("MA") (or at the full Accreditation event if attending that instead), then he/she will be on "probationary" status. PMTS.org trainers will specify which clinics should be attended in the following three-year period leading to the next MA. At that MA, if the instructor still does not perform at his/her current level, s/he will drop one level in accreditation.
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