Course Details
Are you finding yourself confused by all the new marker cues for everything? Toss, X, Yes, Sniff, Scatter, it’s hard to keep them all straight and your head is going to explode! What is the big deal anyway? A treat is a treat. Why do people have 20 zillion cues for a simple treat? And where does a clicker fit in all of this?
Let’s explore that concept in my new 6 week class on location specific marker cues. I promise to simplify reinforcement procedures for you, with lots of real time practice of timing, and cue discrimination. We’ll cover the most popular marker cues in the first couple of weeks, along with looking at clean training loops, resets, and timing of simple behavior cues. I’ll add offered focus, down stays and some practice on how to capture and shape simple behaviors as well. We’ll talk about the emotion attached to different marker cues and how you can use that excitement or calmness to teach specific behavior skills. We’ll customize it to your dog, picking a behavior to teach and exploring why you might use a specific reinforcement procedure over another to help train that skill.
This sounds like a foundation class, right? It is, but I promise even advanced students will find something they need to learn. I’m continually seeing students with 15 different marker cues but the dog acts the same with each one until the sight of the actual treat. Tip-all those cues are not helping you if you don’t see anticipatory body language between the cue and the presentation of the treat!
Trainers who will benefit the most from this course are new trainers, trainers with lots of book experience but not a lot of hands on, trainers getting into dogs sports for the first time and of course, trainers who want to know more about Location Specific Marker cues.
Dogs that will do best in this class are ones that like food!
There will be a TA for this class!
Teaching Approach
Written out lectures, with bullet points, steps and video examples of each steps. Instructions are written out, not on the videos.
Instructor: Shade WhiteselShade Whitesel (she/her) has been training and competing in dog sports since she was a kid. Always interested in how dogs learn, she has successfully competed in IPO/schutzhund, AKC obedience and French Ring. Her retired dog, Reiki vom Aegis, IPO 3, FH 1, French Ring 1, CDX, was 5th at the...(Click here for full bio and to view Shade's upcoming courses)
