Practical Skills - Shaping Skills

Build your practical skills by diving deep into the world of shaping. What does the science tell us? How do we transfer the theory into practical training applications? What practical skills do we need to become a precise and proficient trainer? How do we make the very most of shaping skills to achieve long term behaviour and training success?

Get started with four comprehensive video lectures, with plenty of video analysis and case studies for practical training in the real world.
The four lecture topics are:

• Video One: Principles of Shaping
• Video Two: Marking for Movement
• Video Three: Linear and Non-Linear Shaping
• Video Four: Building Behaviours for the Real World

Once you have mastered the theory of shaping via the comprehensive video lectures, it is time to get training!
Each of the four lecture videos requires students to complete practical training tasks – through the Shaping Skills assignment. The assignment includes four short answer sections and four video submissions

Students will enjoy access to individual feedback, comprehensive guidance and support from out IMDT Tutors.
Students will require access to a dog for their practical training assessments and will be required to capture and submit video of their training sessions.
Students will submit their assignment (and attached video links) to our IMDT Tutors. Once a student has shown competent practical training skills, they will receive their ‘Practical Skills: Shaping Skills’ certificate of completion

Students should allow approximately 6 hours of learning time to complete this course – this includes watching the video lectures, practicing their training skills and completing their assignment document

This course is worth 6 hours of CPD for IMDT Members.
Enrol now and get started straight away!

Once you have enrolled in the course you can immediately access the video lectures and assignment document within your IMDT Account  
To access the videos: sign in to your IMDT Account --- select 'MY ACCOUNT' then 'ONLINE COURSES'
To access the assignment document: sign in to your IMDT Account --- select 'MY ACCOUNT' then 'ACCOUNT DETAILS' --- select 'MY FILE DOWNLOADS' 

To speak with an IMDT Practical Skills Tutor please email: [email protected]