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Join Theresa McKeon as she coaches expert dog trainer Jessica Wheatcraft on skill breakdown and the creation of tag points that everyone can use to make walking a dog or puppy safer and more fun.

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This is a "pay what you can" workinar. If you're not already a TAGteach member or have not yet had a free trial membership, you'll get 1 free month in the TAGteach Membership.

Join us for a fun and interactive learning experience on Wed Mar 26 at 2-3 PM EDT with Theresa McKeon and Jessica Wheatcraft.

This is the first in a new series in which Theresa McKeon will team up with an expert to break skills down, create tag points and optimize communication between teacher and learner. The purpose is to help you to see how to create tag points and deliver clear, effective instructions. The topic of the session may not apply to you, but you'll learn a lot about how TAGteach works and how to break skills down. TAGteach works the same way regardless of the application. This session is about dog leash handling, but we encourage you to join us whether you're a dog trainer, music teacher, nurse educator, speech therapist, sport coach, parent, or you give instructions to learners in any capacity. We've often found that students of TAGteach learn better when the topic is unfamiliar to them. So even if dog walking isn't your thing, please join us to observe Theresa masterfully engaging with Jessica to help formulate crystal clear instructions and streamline communcation between teacher and learner.

Mastering the Leash: Skill breakdown and tag points for learning key leash handling skills for anyone who walks a dog or puppy.

The strategies Jessica will present to Theresa are designed to:

-  set dogs up for success and to reduce pressure on their bodies whenever possible

- keep the person walking the dog safe, especially if it is a large/powerful dog

- keep the community safe by not having dogs approach strange people or dogs in public unless invited. 

Essentially, these strategies are for anyone who walks a dog in public, from reactive dogs to wiggly puppies. These are the effective, humane strategies that Jessica teaches to all her clients.

Theresa will help Jessica to break down her expert knowledge so that a beginner can understand, create crystal clear instructions and individual tag points to ensure maximum success and minimum stress for the learner. 

You'll get to see Theresa leverage the TAGteach Tools to streamline communication between teacher and learner. You'll be able to see how this would work for whatever it is that you teach. 

Please note: you may teach leash handling skils differently or you may teach different leash handling skills or you may work in another field entirely. The point of this session is to learn about TAGteach, so even if you do things differently (or you teach in some other field), you'll gain valuable strategies for applying TAGteach to your own situation.

This will be recorded and all registrants will have access to the recording.

No CEUs are provided

After more than 30 years as a national level gymnastics coach, Theresa was determined to find a way to speed up skill acquisition for her athletes while simultaneously decreasing stress and fear in the learning environment. Her search for behaviorally sound techniques, clean instructions, and the proper timing of feedback and reinforcement, led to the development of the TAGteach methodology along with partners Joan Orr, Karen Pryor and Beth Wheeler. The success of the methodology has been accented by the wide range of applications embracing it.

Theresa now consults and designs TAGteach programs in multiple fields including: corporate training, industrial safety, medical and surgical training, sport coaching, even family communication. She is a sought after speaker around the world including Europe, U.K., Taiwan, Japan, Australia and New Zealand

Jessica Wheatcraft, CDBC is a Certified Dog Behavior Consultant and professional dog trainer who has worked with thousands of dogs for over 18 years. She specializes in dog to dog leash reactivity cases, with an emphasis on understanding each dog as an individual and thinking outside of the box to implement the most effective and humane training solutions. She mentors other trainers via her Leash Reactivity Mentorship for Professionals and works with pet parents virtually from all over the world. She lives in North Carolina, and when she's not working you'll either find her on a trail in the woods or cooking from scratch at home.