Online Puppy School Instructor Course
An online puppy school instructor course: plan, run and fill your own puppy classes.
- First lesson free · no subscription · learn at your own pace
What you’ll learn, and who it’s for
Plan, run and fill your own puppy classes
Great puppy schools don’t happen by accident. This online puppy school instructor course teaches you how puppies develop, what a puppy class must cover, how to teach the humans as well as the pups, and how to turn it into a business, so your classes are the ones people recommend.
Who it’s for
Dog trainers adding puppy classes, vets and vet nurses running puppy preschool, daycare and grooming businesses wanting to offer classes, and dog enthusiasts ready to start. It also keeps a team consistent: every instructor learns the same curriculum, so a stand-in can take over a class without the quality changing.
What you’ll learn
- Puppy development: the critical period from 5 to 16 weeks, fear periods, and what shapes personality for life
- Socialisation and environmental conditioning: real training scenarios to give to owners
- Building independence to prevent over-attachment, over-excitement and anxiety
- Preventing behavioural issues: destructive behaviours, barking, reactivity to dogs and people
- Science-based training methods, and how to apply them in a class setting
- Toilet training, biting and nipping, play, and interactions with children
- Canine body language, genetics, breeds and traits, and puppy health basics
- Running safe, controlled playtime, and teaching sit, down, stay, recall, loose-lead walking, leave it, touch and tricks
- Creating a balanced puppy school curriculum, handling clients and running a successful business
What’s inside
Around 10 hours of online study, with videos, reading and coursework. You’ll design your own puppy school curriculum, lesson by lesson, and submit it for review and approval before you finish, so you walk away with a class ready to run. The course ends with a final exam and a Puppy School Teacher certificate of completion. Need hands-on experience too? See the version with 10 hours of practical training in real puppy classes in Sydney.
The method you’ll teach
You’ll learn to teach the Asset Method to owners: help them understand what their puppy values and use it, so puppies choose good behaviour instead of being managed into it. You’ll also learn to coach the three D’s of dog training, distance, duration and distractions, so your clients know how to progress at home between classes, which is where most of the training actually happens.
Why study puppy school instruction online
Study when it suits you, around your current job or practice, and go back to any module as you plan your first classes. Your access runs for 12 months, long enough to launch and refine your puppy school with the material beside you.
Try the first lesson free, pay once, study at your own pace.
From checkout to the park in five steps.
Nothing to download, nothing to book. Here’s what happens after you choose a course.
Try the first lesson free. Every course has an open first lesson so you can see how it’s taught before you pay anything.
Buy once, log in. Pay securely, and the course is in your dashboard straight away. No subscription, nothing recurring.
Watch short lessons at your own pace, on phone, tablet or computer, and rewatch any step as often as you like.
Practise where the problems happen: your home, your street, your park. Each lesson tells you exactly what “good enough to move on” looks like.
Train for a full 12 months. Finish in a few weeks, then come back for refreshers whenever you need them.
Understand what your dog values, and use it.
Online training for dogs from $99
Online dog training that fits your real life.
Short, practical pre-recorded dog training lessons designed to help you build better habits with your dog, one step at a time.
- Expert-led video lessons
- Learn anytime, anywhere
- Track your progress