A Nationally Accredited Law Enforcement Training Academy

Course Purpose:
This course is designed for experienced instructors who want to go beyond simply delivering content and start designing training that truly sticks. Whether you're teaching classroom concepts or hands-on skills, you'll learn how to apply evidence-based methods that enhance learning, retention, and real-world performance.
This course is a foundation booster for all instructors where the ‘why’ is focused on. In this two day training participants will explore proven strategies from adult and motor learning science and will discuss how they will integrate the material into lessons they already teach—building more effective, transferable training that prepares officers for the demands of the job.
Course Objectives:
By the end of this 2 day training session, instructors will:
• Identify critical differences between observed or measured performance following instruction and learning that transfers to the field.
• Each student will identify and apply to their own physical skill classes at least 3 key learning principles to increase student retention and adaptability to real world policing.
• Each student will identify and apply to their own classroom based lessons at least 3 key learning principles to create durable learning for classroom instruction.
• Understand the benefits of the Socratic Dynamic feedback model for both individual and group training sessions.
• Recognize and evaluate skill learning that is contextual and decision driven.
• Create and apply a list of representative complexities to add to their training (Challenge Point Framework).
• Understand Challenge vs. Threat States and how to lead students to greater levels of motivation and emotional regulation.
• Integrate decision-making, perception, and challenge into drill design.
• Understand how to evaluate any skill, decision or answer a student gives against the quadrant model of feedback optimization.
• Coach others using structured feedback models that pull information from the student.
• Create at least 3 exercises to integrate effortful retrieval for all students into their classroom delivery.

Your Instructor:
Jeff Johnsgaard recently retired after a 21 year career. He is a contract instructor for Force Science, Raptor Protection and the Reality Based Training Association. He has been an instructor in multiple law enforcement disciplines and has authored numerous papers and articles published in a variety of professional publications.