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Joel Silverman’s Basic Dog Trainer Certification Course (JSDT1 Certification)
Joel Silverman’s Dog Trainer Certification Courses were launched in January of 2017. JSDT1 is a very unique dog trainer certification course for two main reasons:
1. This course is 90% practical dog training
2. We travel to you, and certify your staff and employees.
A mistake that a number of dog trainer certification courses make is teaching a huge percentage of their content online. Joel believes that if you are going to teach someone to train dogs, the majority of the information the student must learn needs to be practical. It also must be taught by a person who not only has a significant amount of experience, but also someone who can teach and make things simple and easy to understand. As a Hollywood dog trainer for over four decades, and after teaching dog training to hundreds of students over the course of many years, Joel has learned that each behavior needs to be broken down into a short series of small steps. These small steps in the animal behavior world are known as “shaping” a behavior. What many dogs trainers will do is shape a behavior as the dog is being trained. Joel plans out and shapes the behavior (breaks the behavior into small steps) before the animal is brought out. EVERY dog will start with the first step of the behavior from the very beginning. For some dogs that are naturally very smart, they might go through 6 of the 6 phases of the entire behavior in a few minutes. Others might take much longer. But Joel always starts with the first phase.
As a Hollywood dog trainer, what most trainers will tell you is that the two most important aspects of dog training should be distance and control. Those two same principles should be used for all kinds of dog training.
Over the course of the four day period, the students will work with 4-6 dogs that are untrained. EVERY student has their hands on EVERY dog at EVERY phase of each behavior. So by the end of the course, the students will have trained a number of dogs.
- Once they have completed the course, they get a certification signed by Joel Silverman.
- Joel will then recommend each graduate work with 4-6 family or friend’s dogs (for free) for the next 2-4 weeks, and train what they learned.
- Once they have trained those dogs, they are ready to start making money as a dog trainer.
The 6 behaviors that are taught are:
Sit, Stay, Come, Lie Down, Place, and Heel
Who has taken our Basic Dog Trainer Certification Course in the past?
– Owners and employees of dog daycare business
– Professional dog trainers
– Individuals looking to start their own dog training business
– Employees of humane societies
– Volunteers of humane societies
– Retired individuals looking for a part-time career dog training
– Pet owners looking to get a better grasp of animal behavior
We have a few links below, so feel free to click away on prices. If you have a group or at least 2 employees that are looking to get certified, please feel free to email us about setting a date, and thanks for reading about this great opportunity.
