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Certified Membership
An applicant for Certified Membership
must have a minimum of 5 years experience in dog obedience training
and at least 2 years as full-charge instructor. Group applicants
must have a minimum of 104 hours as full-charge instructor and have
worked with a minimum of 100 dog/handler teams. Private applicants
must have a minimum of 288 hours instructing and have worked with
a minimum of 100 dog/handler teams. All hours for teaching pet manners
and/or competition obedience training may be used to calculate eligibility.
DOWNLOAD CERTIFIED APPLICATION.
Provisional Membership
To be eligible for Provisional
membership, an applicant must have a minimum of 2 years experience
in dog obedience training. Provisional Membership is limited
to three (3) years. Within that three year period, and no later
than three (3) years after acceptance as a Provisional Member, the
provisional member is expected to apply for certification by NADOI.
DOWNLOAD PROVISIONAL
APPLICATION.
Formula
for Calculating Eligibility
If you are uncertain if you meet
the hours requirements, or if you are close to the minimum, please
use the following formula to figure your hours and return this form
along with your application. If your experience clearly exceeds
the minimum, you do not need to complete the following.
Group Only:
Number of courses taught________X
number of hours per course = ________total hours.
If the total is less than 104, you are not eligible for Certified
membership but may be eligible to apply for Provisional membership.
If the total is 104 or more, you are eligible to apply for Certified
membership.
Private only:
Number of clients taught________X average number of hours per client
= _______total hours.
If the total is less than 288, you are not eligible for Certified
membership but may be eligible to apply for Provisional membership.
If the total is 288 or more, you are eligible to apply for Certified
membership.
Combined Group and Private Hours:
Line 1: Enter number of group instructing hours _____
Line 2: Divide the number on line 1 by 104 _____
Line 3: Enter private instructing hours here_____
Line 4: Divide the number on line 3 by 288_____
Line 5: Add Line 2 to Line 4 _____
Line 6: Multiply line 5 by 100 _____%
If line 6 is less than 100%, you are not eligible for Certified membership
but may be eligible to apply for Provisional membership.
If line 6 is more than 100%, you are eligible to apply for Certified
membership.
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