Instructor Development

Certification

This course is certified by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board.

Training Mandates

• Procedural Justice (4hrs)
• Officer Wellness/Mental Health (1hr)

Description

This 32-hour curriculum has been designed to provide new instructors with the skills needed to become dynamic, effective trainers.  In this highly interactive and participatory program, students will be introduced to a multitude of techniques that can be used successfully within traditional law enforcement environments and applications, including the classroom, field operations, simulated scenes, scenario-based training, and assessments.

Students are strongly encouraged to bring a working computer to the course with PowerPoint software or a similar presentation software. This 32-hour course requires after class preparation on Tuesday – Thursday evenings.

Topics

• Instructing to generational/cultural differences, implicit bias
• Introduction of partner officer/building trust/legitimacy and credibility statements
• 2-minute impromptu speeches
• Introduction and instructions for demonstrating speeches
• Introduction to public speaking
• Small group discussion, police policy updates/changes, case reviews
• 5-minute demonstration speech
• Adult learning principles
• Presentation of classroom training session 10-minute
• Classroom management
• Planning & designing lesson plans & instruction
• 20-minute, individual law enforcement block of instruction/scenario based
• ILETSB instructor application Form C, Form A-2, Online-Learning Network and the Executive Institute
• Authentic officer wellness

Instructors

Deadline

Please register for this course by October 8.