Safe Interactions with Shelter Dogs
Recognizing Stress Signals and Making Safer Handling Decisions
Problem
Shelter staff need practical ways to recognize canine stress signals and interact safely with unfamiliar dogs during everyday care.
Solution
A scenario-based eLearning experience helps staff identify signs of stress, choose safer handling actions, and practice decisions they can apply in the shelter.
Try It
Shelter Dogs Interactive Course
Design Documents
Action Map
Connects the staff-turnover goal to two essential workplace actions: recognizing canine stress and approaching and caring for shelter dogs safely.
Audience Analysis
Identifies shelter staff’s training interests, safety confidence, time constraints, and compassion fatigue to inform the learning design.
Explore the complete Audience Analysis (pdf)
Design Matrix
Aligns the shelter staff performance objectives with essential information, scenario-based practice, and instructional strategies.
View the complete Design Matrix (pdf)
Results & Takeaway
This project demonstrates how I used audience analysis, Action Mapping, and instructional planning to turn a workplace safety concern into scenario-based learning. Staff practice recognizing canine stress signals, choosing safer handling actions, and learning from immediate feedback. The design matrix and evaluation plan connect those activities to performance objectives and proposed measures of learning and on-the-job behavior.