40 HOURS POST APPROVED!
February 3-7, 2025 at the Bozeman Police Department – 901 N Rouse Avenue, Bozeman, MT
Registration: $400 per person – Please contact Sgt. Rick Musson – [email protected]
406-582-2000 (ext. 7163)
Regardless of how long your course is, creating training that imparts new skills and behaviors to the adult learner requires more from you than knowing the subject and starts long before the training does.
This interactive 40-hour course is built around the ADDIE Instructional Design Model, includes discussions specifically geared toward public safety trainers, and meets the requirements for Montana POST Instructor certification as outlined in A.R.M.23.13.212.
What is ADDIE? One of several Instructional Design Models, ADDIE offers a step-by-step linear process to organizing your training through:
ANALYSIS – Identifying what is to be trained and includes needs assessments, problem identification, task analysis, policy review, discovering what’s already known, and identifying training goals.
DESIGN – Specifying how it will be trained and includes creating performance objectives, identifying resources, reviewing or drafting policy (if necessary), and planning instruction (hours, location, type(s) of instruction).
DEVELOPMENT – Authoring and producing the materials and includes writing lesson plans, creating handouts/student manuals, creating skills-based components and group practice requirements, as well as developing remedial training options.
IMPLEMENTATION – Conducting the training by executing the training plan to include evaluation and closure.
EVALUATION – Determining through formal processes and after-action reviews if participants are competent and see the value of the new information.
Where We’ll Focus During the Week – Developing lesson plans, building presentation skills, understanding POST instructor requirements, discussing the ethics of training, assessing learning types, discussing the role of training in public safety organizations, discussing where liability exists, discovering adult learning principles, identifying levels of understanding and assessing performance.
What to Bring – A laptop with internet access and has Microsoft Power Point and Word. All course material will be distributed on thumb drives to participants. Each participant will be required to complete a presentation to graduate that will be created during the course so come prepared with a public safety topic to work on during the week. The hosting agency may have additional requirements regarding the location of the course.
Presenter – Mike McCarthy, long time Montana Law Enforcement Academy trainer, has been teaching Instructor Development courses to public safety professionals from all disciplines across Montana for more than 12 years.