Five Unique and Awesome Tricks!
Instructor: Pamela Leland KPA CTP, CPDT-KSA
Course Description: Teach your dog Five Unique and Awesome Tricks! This course will equip students with the skills needed to train tricks that range from moderate to challenging difficulty. These Five Unique and Awesome Tricks can be found in many trick dog courses, Freestyle routines, and Rally-Free competitions. Many components of these tricks can serve as foundation behaviors for other canine sports and Service Dog training. Tricks #4 and #5 are more advanced and will take more time to train. Your dog should be at a level of training to support these: they should be clicker savvy (marker savvy), have good focus, and a willingness to learn. For the For Credit option, you will need to send in videos of you and your dog demonstrating each of the five tricks for feedback and assistance from the Instructor.
The five tricks are:
1.) Forward and Walkback Weaves
2.) Four Circle Moves Around the Handler
3.) Figure of 8 (without the handler)
4.) Back Around the Handler (challenging)
5.) Turn Back Thru (most challenging)
Goal: After the successful completion of this course, students should be able to apply these training skills to other interesting and challenging behaviors.
Course length: 5 Lessons (Approximately one hour each)
Prerequisites:
- Students should have a basic understanding of operant conditioning, shaping, luring, and reinforcement strategies.
- Students should understand how to use a clicker or verbal marker.
- The dog should understand and trust that a reinforcer follows the click/verbal marker.
Equipment needed:
- Target Stick or something similar like a long-handled spatula.
- Training gates (or an X-pen) that is long enough to be set up in a circle around the handler.
- Two cones or something similar (small upside down waste baskets would work.)
- A training platform (or something similar) that is long enough for a standing dog.
- For the For Credit/CEU option, students will need to send videos of you and your dog performing each trick to your Instructor.
Textbook:
“Five Unique and Awesome Tricks” by Pamela Leland. Available on Amazon and Dogwise.
Assumptions:
- You and your dog are physically able to perform the tricks.
- You are tall enough, and/or your dog is short enough to move between your legs for the leg weave trick.
- You are motivated to learn!
Instructional Methods:
- A PowerPoint presentation covering each trick with supporting pictures, as well as a video of each behavior.
- A quiz at the completion of each trick for a total of five quizzes.
- A final exam at the end of the course.
- This is an entirely web-based course with no face-to-face meetings.
- You will work at your own pace within the time limit permitted for this course.
Homework:
Students will submit individual videos for the five tricks they’ve trained (for the For Credit option only).
What I expect from you:
- Follow the steps taught for each trick. Don’t skip steps.
- Maintain momentum in working through this course.
- Get the first three tricks done early in the course because Trick #4 and #5 take more time to train.
What you can expect from me:
- Prompt reviews of the videos you submit within 24-48 hours (excluding weekends and holidays.)
- Responses to your questions, as needed.
Continuing Education Units:
CCPDT- KA-12.5 CEUs (5.00 Knowledge and 7.50 Skills) for trainers and 0 CEUs for behavior consultants
CCPDT- KSA-7.5 CEUs
IAABC – 7.5 CEUs
KPA – Pending
Course Cost –
For Credit: $200.00 USD (Choose this option if you need CEUs, a Certificate or Instructor feedback. Video homework will be required for CEUs and a Certificate of Completion)
For Audit: $100.00 USD (Same content as the “For Credit” except there are no CEUs, certificate, nor homework videos required.)
Student Information:
Access to this course will expire in 6 months. Therefore, you have 6 months to complete this course from the date of registration.
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