R4 309 – Instructor Development – Idaho Falls

October 7-11, 2024 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Credit Hours: 40
Course Number: 309

Description:

This class is required for any person who wishes to become a POST certified instructor. The new course curriculum covers adult learning, building thinking skills in students, paralanguage, assessing student understanding of class material, and writing lesson plans. Each Student will be videotaped for self-evaluation. The participants are required to bring to this class certain equipment and presentations:

• A laptop or other electronic media device with a USB port.
• The Instructor development manual either as a hard copy or downloaded on a media device
• A device equipped to video record a 2-3 minute presentation for self-evaluation (i.e. camera, iPhone, iPad etc)
• Materials needed for your classroom presentation

Please note that POST will no longer provide printed classroom manuals to participants in this course. It is the participants responsibility to download the class instruction sheet and classroom manual, links are provided throughout this announcement.

COURSE MATERIALS DOWNLOAD LINKS ARE SHOWN BELOW.

2022-POST-Instructor-Development-Overviewdocx
Instructor-Development-Course-Agenda-2022-1
2022-POST-Instructor-Development-Student-Manual

Location:

Cost: $625 Payable to Idaho POST (Invoice will be sent via email after the start date of the course)(Attendees are responsible for meals, travel, and lodging)

POST Coordinator: Matt Bloodgood

Registration:

All registration applications will be vetted by POST for approval to attend this training. Once an applicant has been vetted, an e-mail will be sent to the applicant confirming registration. It is vital that the applicant provide a valid and correct e-mail address on the on-line registration form.

Pre-requisites for attendance:

• • • Must be employed with an Idaho Law Enforcement Agency
      Applicants must have  three (3) years of LE experience

NOTE:   If the LE experience is with an agency out of state the following documentation is required:

• • • a copy of the previous POST record which shows years of service
    • or a letter from the previous Agency Head (on Agency letterhead) verifying years of service including the hire date and separation date

Any registration request that does not meet the 3 year minimum LE experience and/or does not have a POST certification will not be approved

Registrations open 90 days before the start date of the course