Course Details
Do you even know what ‘shaping’ is?
Do you want to know what the 5 key skills to shape, that will allow you to shape any sports behaviour or life skill?
Do you want to understand how to use shaping to work through frustration and help your dog develop the ability to ‘think in arousal’?
If so, join Kamal Fernandez, long time FDSA faculty member for an in depth look at shaping and help you understand it, or if you currently shape behaviour, get feedback to take your skills to the next level!
This course will cover:
- Key skills to shape for any dog sport
- Understanding errorless learning
- Clean and clear training processes
- Working through frustration via shaping
- Improve mechanical skills and understand the 5 w’s of reinforcement
Teaching Approach
This course will comprise of weekly video lectures detailing the skills to shape, feedback on each skill and understanding how to progress, and how to implement these skills into other behaviours.
Syllabus
Shaping Skills Syllabus!
Week 1:
- Intro to marker words
- - Using props
- - Shaping differently… when to use and not use your clicker!
- - Shaping basics, starting off shaping and what to shape shape first (On something), release cue.
Week 2:
- - In something
- - Teaching duration
- - Green light/red light
- - Tweezer fingers/Rapid feeding
Week 3:
- - Around something
- - Shaping motion, or speed
Week 4:
-Targeting!
- - Head, shoulders, paws and toes!
- - Using targets..
- - Exit plans for targets!
- - Creating distance!
Week 5:
- - Pick up something
- - Building duration
Week 6:
- - Cues, proofing, spicing up your behaviours!
- - How to add verbal cues, chaining basics and variable schedules of reinforcement!
Prerequisites & Supplies
Instructor
Kamal Fernandez
Faculty
Kamal Fernandez (he/him) started training in 1991 after getting Scrunch, an independent and free-willled chow-chow mix. Like many other first-time dog owners, Kamal found himself in for a rude awakening when he got her – Lassie she was not! You name it, Scrunch did it – ...