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Practical Skills - Shaping Skills

For you if you teach classes and 121's and wants to understand shaping behaviours better and to tweak your own skills - a good understanding of and the ability to explain to your owners the... [ Read more ]

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For you if you teach classes and 121's and wants to understand shaping behaviours better and to tweak your own skills - a good understanding of and the ability to explain to your owners the wonders of shaping and the world's your oyster - think of the workshops you could run!

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!

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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Course Feedback

5/5
25/03/2025

I have done most of the IMDT course and webinars and what really engaged me with the practical skills webinars is the practical training we are required to do. It was challenging some of the time but the constructive feedback from the tutor was helpful and I it helped having the time to figure things out for myself too. Highly recommend

Lance Morrison

5/5
25/03/2025

Thank you for such a clever webinar. I am new to the idea of shaping behaviours but I enjoyed working through with all of my 7 collies, I think they enjoed our sessions too

Mrs Owens

5/5
25/03/2025

ha! brilliant webinar. We've had some brilliant training sessions completing the webinar, I feel like my understanding of shaping has grown so much all of a sudden it all clicked into place. Will be looking at the fluency one next xx

BECCA HODGES

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