For all trainers who just love to spend time investing in themselves and who simply strive to be more skilled trainers - the best you can be - this is for YOU!
Save a MASSIVE 20% by booking the FOUR Practical Skills Courses together as a bundle. The package includes:
Practical Skills: Reinforcement Strategies
Practical Skills: Shaping Skills
Practical Skills: Focus on Fluency
Practical Skills: Building Behaviour Chains
Cost: If you buy seperately £600 + VAT but buy as a bundle and you will save 20% £500 + VAT
Information for each of the courses is listed blow:
Practical Skills: Reinforcement Strategies
Build your practical skills by diving deep into the world of reinforcement
What does the science tell us? How do we transfer the theory into practical training applications? How do we create effective reinforcement strategies 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: Event markers, timing and mechanical skills
- Video Two: Types of reinforcers
- Video Three: Reinforcement delivery
- Video Four: Reinforcement and arousal
Once you have mastered the theory of reinforcement strategies 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 Reinforcement Strategies 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 Tutor
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: Reinforcement Strategies’ 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!
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!
Practical Skills: Focus on Fluency
Build your practical skills by diving deep into the world of fluency. What does the science tell us? How do we transfer the theory into practical training applications? How do we train behaviours to true fluency?
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: An introduction to fluency
- Video Two: Distance and duration
- Video Three: Latency and speed
- Video Four: Perfecting precision
Once you have mastered the theory of fluency 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 Focus on Fluency 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: Focus on Fluency’ 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!
Practical Skills: Building Behaviour Chains
Build your practical skills by diving deep into the world of behaviour chains and sequences. What does the science tell us? How do we transfer the theory into practical training applications? How do we create foundation behaviour sequences and refine complex behaviour chains?
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: Behaviour chains – getting started
- Video Two: Timing and technique
- Video Three: Back-chaining
- Video Four: Maintaining behaviour chains
Once you have mastered the theory of behaviour chains and sequences 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 Building Behaviour Chains 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: Building Behaviour Chains’ 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
What happens when you book your course?
You will receive a Confirmation Email so you know your course is booked ...
Once you have enrolled in the bundled course, you can immediately access the video lectures and assignment documents within your IMDT Account
To access the videos:
Sign in to your IMDT Account
Select 'MY ACCOUNT'
Then 'ONLINE COURSES'
To access the assignment documents:
Sign in to your IMDT Account
Select 'MY ACCOUNT'
Then 'ACCOUNT DETAILS'
Select 'MY FILE DOWNLOADS'
Any quesstions? email
[email protected] and you'll be in touch with an IMDT Practical Skills Tutor
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