Hi All – this is your one and ONLY lesson for this course! 🙂
Remember, our topic is “Case Studies for Intro to K9 Nose Work(R) & New Dog Challenges”
As the title suggests this is about starting dogs – on primary – for their adventures into K9NW. This could be puppies or older dogs, dogs with natural hunting instincts or those who are more challenging. We want to see who comes to your classes/clinics and private lessons! We are including clinics and private lessons in order to accommodate those of you who have other formats for teaching.
EDIT: Although we DO want dogs just starting out on PRIMARY, if we do not have enough people to share this stage of learning we *may* add dogs who are on odor but are NEW to odor. So we will ask you in the registration what level(s) you would like to share, with our leaning towards those still on PRIMARY.
GOLD Students: Based on the topic, you will run and videotape the exercises and classes/clinics/lessons with your students PRIOR TO THE COURSE STARTING. We want to have ample time to prepare! Your Case Study should be ready to present by February 4, 2019. (I may give you a specific posting date to spread them out slightly.)
This will be your unique CASE STUDY to be shared with the group. You will videotape your class/clinic/private lessons and choose 3 students to share with us. You may wish to show the progression of exercises in the VERY FIRST CLASS/clinic/lesson or a series of classes/clinics/lessons. Feel free to include difficult challenges that may not have gone as expected and would like some feedback suggestions. Each student video will be no more than 3 minutes in length unless you feel the exercise warrants sharing more. So you’ll post 9 videos total. You MAY combine the videos if they’re short, around 3-4 minutes total, for each student OR for the same students, different exercises into THREE videos. (It’s too hard to watch videos longer than that.) Please explain what each of your videos are so we know what we’re seeing.
In your thread you are going to use your first post to give us this info:
- General information about the students we’ll be seeing – first nosework dog? How long have they been working primary? Specific challenges? Etc.
- How long have you been teaching K9NW?
- How long has it been before this class that you taught an Intro/K9NW class?
- Did you anticipate any particular challenges with the dogs or the exercises in general?
- Did the exercises go as expected?
- What adjustments for any of the exercises or for individual dogs did you have to make?
- What would you do differently?
- What exercises would you do next, either the following week or soon afterwards to solidify the learning and continue the progression?
- Any other information that would be helpful for us to know?
- Any questions for me? (Questions and comments to the rest of the class can go in the Discussion Forum)
After you answer these questions you will share the links to your videos (uploaded to YouTube, unlisted) within the body of your next post in a way that will display within the post. (See the “2018 TIPS” sticky post with the topics listed in the forum.)
Again, you can choose to merge short videos or group them together in a post by exercise or by dog and use multiple posts to share them. Remember, we want to understand how and what you’re teaching so don’t feel the need to only show the perfect ones. Give US good learning, too! 😉