What is Methods of Instruction?

This Basic Instructor Development Training Course is an approved “Methods of Instruction” course qualifying graduates to apply for POST instructor certification at the “standard” level.  Enrollment is limited to 30 officers. This Instructor Development course is a prerequisite for registering applicants for the Firearms Instructor Development course. Students who successfully complete the course will receive review training credit as follows: Curriculum Area III: Practical Skills (16) hours; Curriculum Area IV: Human Relations (8) hours. 

Requirements to Enroll:

• Must have at least three years of satisfactory experience as a law enforcement officer
• Students are required to bring their own laptop or department issued laptop. The laptops should be equipped with Microsoft Office capabilities (MS Word and MS PowerPoint).
•  Plan a training topic that is law enforcement related prior to class and expect to construct a lesson plan and teach that topic
  • Students who have a class scheduled in the near future may prepare a lesson plan for that lesson.
• POST dress requirements will be followed

To successfully complete this course, you will be expected to:

• Prepare a two-hour lesson plan
  • Each lesson plan should be at a minimum, twelve (12) type-written pages of required material
  • Each lesson plan must include at least five resources (five bibliography references) and use at least four Instructional Objectives.
  • Each lession plan must include at least ten (10) criterion test questions.
• Present, in the classroom environment, a ten-minute lesson demonstrating a portion of that developed lesson plan
• Create appropriate instructional media to support a lesson.  
  • Instructional media may be in the form of color overhead transparencies, film slides, film or video, PowerPoint or Freelance Graphics formatted projections, flip charts, or other, similar instructional tools to incorporate with and support the lesson plan. (PowerPoint is the current media standard and instructional time will be devoted to developing the familiarization with this program.)
• All students must be punctual for class and successfully complete ALL work assignments, including homework, within the time period allowed

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Schedule: 

• Classes meet Monday through Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Friday 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
• The student will be required to turn in his/her lesson plan on the Thursday of the program by  1:00 p.m., even if the actual presentation is not until Friday morning.
• Beginning Thursday afternoon, students begin lesson plan presentation.  

Click here to read about the instructor, Det. Brian Shea

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