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The Basic Class Curriculum

What Is It?
A professionally designed R+ curriculum for anyone teaching basic manners classes.

Never again start with 10 students and finish with 6, or piece a class together from other trainers’ plans. Set your clients up for success beyond the classroom to keep them coming back to your classes time and again.

  • Easy to use
  • Designed by master curriculum designers
  • Fully editable
  • Available for PC and Mac
  • Tried and tested by dog pros across the country
  • Can be used to guide private lessons

 

 

What You Get
Materials: Fully scripted curriculum | student homework handbook | instructor’s handbook | assistant’s handbook | 2-hour DVD for instructors

Behaviors covered: Sit | down | watch | come | stay | leave it | target | loose-leash walking | anti jumping | wait

Training concepts covered: Basic learning theory | nothing for free | life rewards | luring | shaping | reward removal (negative punishment) | timing | criteria | proofing / handling distraction | getting and keeping focus | rate of reinforcement | fading the lure | use of voice and body | problem solving.

  • I can’t thank you enough for the Basic Manners Curriculum. What a helpful resource and at great value, considering how much material is included. I now have a professional, meaty-looking presentation—that’s a big part of the reason my clients feel they get their money’s worth.”
    –Erica Curtis, Arnicadia Farms Dog Training
  • Our students learn so much more with the Basic Manners curriculum than from a standard curriculum. They tell us our class makes them feel empowered to live comfortably with their dogs in the real world, and isn’t that what it’s all about?”
    –Christine Hibbard, Companion Animal Solutions

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