Instructor Led Training (ILT) – Virtual and In-person
Advanced Training Development Courses for LE Instructors
The Advanced Training Development Course series provides law enforcement instructors a detailed experience in creating training that follows the science and processes of learning and instructional design. Using science and instructional design processes creates a “learning chain of evidence” that can help provide a layer of vicarious liability defense. It allows an instructor to move the content of the training from being based on their own “background, training, and experience” to being based on “research, observation, and analysis.”
Each course is tailored to follow the most common framework in training development: Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluation – ADDIE. This series starts where most instructor courses stop and provides processes and insight into improving those materials. Each course then follows the ADDIE framework by filling the gaps many instructors intuitively feel exist and by providing the science and processes that have been developed for over 80 years. All for the purpose of creating training that establishes consistency, continuity, and real accountability.
These courses are designed to allow instructors to receive the information and training they are interested in. Some instructors may only want to improve the quality of their materials, others may want to delve into the science of learning and training development.
This series is based on our Instructional Design for Law Enforcement Instructors course, which is a five day, intensive immersion in the whole process.
The courses
Prerequisite: Basic Law Enforcement Instructor training with experience in developing training
Training has to have consistency and continuity in order for there to be accountability. Accountability is where liability is established, and vicarious liability for instructors and agencies. This course will provide the methods and processes to to develop instructor guides, participant guides, slide decks, and other course products to create consistency and continuity between instructors and iterations of training. All of this is accomplished through applying the science of learning and Instructional Design processes and methodology.
This course starts where most instructor courses stop – with lesson plans, slide decks, and objectives – this is the Development Phase in the ADDIE framework. Creating training is an “Instructional Design” process, which has a lot of opportunity for law enforcement to build training that is effective, measurable, and provides true accountability for instructors and participants, while producing a more visible line between what is trained and the performance of participants and instructors.
This course is the first of five courses that use the Instructional Design framework ADDIE. Since most instructor courses only teach outline, slide deck, and performance objectives, this course starts with what most instructors already have some experience with, but is actually the middle phase in ADDIE. This course is based on the Instructional Design for Law Enforcement Instructors intensive one week course.
In this course we will cover:
– Learning science – what is the real science
– Case law that should inform your training creation
– Trends in training development in the Learning and Development industry
– How to write quality objectives
– The process of creating training materials
– Instructor Guides
– Participant Guides
– Slide decks
– Assessment materials
– Scenario development
– Ancillary documentation
Course length: 3 days
Cost: $525 per person
Class size: 10 participants
Prerequisite: ATDC – Developing Course Materials
Course Analysis and Design typically come before the Course Development phase in training development. There is more to creating training than coming up with an idea and Developing the course materials.
Analyze
Law enforcement instructors often rely on their own background, training, and experience when creating training. This means the instructor owns all of the content and can be held liable for everything that is delivered. Training, instead, should be based on research, observation, and analysis, informed by a LEO’s background, training, and experience. This creates evidence-based and evidence-informed training, which can provide some level of protection with vicarious liability.
Analysis provides the basis for developing performance objectives that accurately provide the proficiency and complexity of what a participant actually needs to do in order to be considered trained and after the course is completed. Analysis informs the performance objectives, which implies the way they should be measured.
For Analysis, we will cover:
– Different types of analysis
– Establishing the “learning chain of evidence.”
– Performing a job task analysis
– Performing a performance task analysis
– Creating reports of the analysis
Design
Designing training includes planning, following a process to make sure all the appropriate learning theories are met, creating measurement plans, and other documentation that you can use to defend your materials and show a process.
For Design, we will cover:
– The importance of designing courses for liability defensibility
– Learning and applying the five learning theories that matter
– How to create a Training Design Plan
– How to create a Measurement Plan
– How to create Executive summaries and scope documents
Course length: 3 days
Cost: $525 per person
Class size: 10 participants
This course is covered by Classroom Command for Law Enforcement Instructors, an advanced instructor course.
Prerequisite: ATDC– Analyzing training needs, gaps, and performance
It is recommended that participants of this course should have also taken the Classroom Command course, but it is not required.
Measuring performance is a key part of creating training, but is often treated as a necessary evil and not given the regard it should have. Evaluation is the final phase of ADDIE, which is measuring performance of participants and the course, itself.
Assessing participant performance is absolutely necessary for holding participants accountable to the training, yet most training assessment amounts to multiple-guess tests or subject scenario performance. Evaluation is measuring the performance of the course over time, which is more than an End of Course Survey.
In this course we will cover:
– Developing assessments that are objective and accurate
– Developing assessments that actually measure proficiency and complexity
– Creating objective scenario-based assessments
– Methods of evaluating course impact and efficacy
– Building data as evidence for defending your course
Course length: 2 days
Cost: $349 per person
Class size: 10 participants
Everyone will receive templates and examples to aid in your training development. You will need a laptop or computer with Microsoft Office for these courses. Be prepared to discuss on the first day of class the training topic you want to develop that interests you or is needed in your agency.
Sponsor a course and receive two free seats
Anyone or agency willing to sponsor the course will get two free seats. Agencies or individuals sponsoring a course must be able to provide a location and classroom, and be willing to market to surrounding jurisdictions to acquire additional participants. Please contact us for more information and to arrange a possible class.
On-going support
Just like learning, our training support doesn’t end when everyone leaves on the final day. We provide continued support to our participants while they put into practice the skills and processes they learn in these courses. These courses were 30 years in the making – we don’t expect our participants to be ready in the few days of class.
Participants of Jacobs, et al, LLC, courses will receive continuing support for as long as they want/need it at no additional cost.* Participants are invited to set meetings with their instructor to discuss their training materials and programs after they receive their certificates of completion. Jacobs, et al, instructors remain permanent consultants as participants go through their career changing the standards of how law enforcement training is designed and developed.
* The only additional cost would be if a total course or program review is requested, like for a National Certification Program pre-evaluation review.