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This is your chance
Obtain this valuable certification to start your own instruction business, or to bolster your current teaching abilities
with the outstanding USCCA Certified Instructor curriculum.
Class size is limited to 8 students.
Act fast to reserve your spot!
What you will be teaching
Upon successfully completing this course, you will become a USCCA Certified Instructor, uniquely authorized to teach the USCCA courses: Basic Handgun
Home Defense Fundamentals
and Concealed Carry Fundamentals.
This course has become the gold standard across the United States for law-abiding Americans seeking to obtain their concealed carry permit.
As a USCCA Certified Instructor, you will be trained and equipped to provide world-class instruction to students.
The materials you will receive
Upon completion of the course,
you will receive an Instructor Toolkit from the USCCA. This will include:
- 10 copies of the USCCA textbook for your first class
- the classroom powerpoint presentation
- 2 classroom posters
- 10 copies of the USCCA Concealed Carry magazine to present to your students
- USCCA Instructor hat
- USCCA Instructor polo shirt
- the e-learning module for you to complete 2 weeks prior to the Certified Instructor course
- Use of the USCCA Instructor portal with marketing materials, forms, handouts, quizzes, videos, stationary, and much more.
- Promotion of your classes on the USCCA website!
Make the commitment!
What you will learn
During this two-day training course, you will be taught by USCCA Training Counselor Daniel Nicholson on a number of valuable topics, including:
- the top ten instructor mistakes, and how to avoid them
- teaching best practices
- learning styles of students
- presentation and practices
- safe classroom characteristics
- running a safe live-fire range
Class participation
You will have the chance to demonstrate your knowledge of the USCCA training material through several short presentations to a group of your peers, as well as running a live-fire range, and guiding your peers through the safe completion of the USCCA course of fire.
After completion of this course, you'll not only be intimately familiar with the USCCA training methodology and materials, you'll be a far better instructor and presenter, regardless of the topic of choice.
Are you ready?
This is not an automatic "rubber-stamp" course where you merely attend to get a certification.
A good attitude of being a learner is a huge plus!
Give yourself plenty of time to go over the e-learning module more than once to become deeply familiar with the curriculum that you will be teaching.
Doing this work will pay off for you!
You WILL be doing presentations in class on this material to build your skills and confidence, and yes, to iron out weaknesses.
What is the cost?
With one price, you are enrolling in the two-day classroom Instructor course, as well as purchasing the Instructor Toolkit from the USCCA to reserve your materials and gain access to the e-learning module.
This e-learning is completed by you on a computer at home prior to classroom instruction.
Total cost of the program is $625.