Texas School Safety Certification Training Course

Course description: This course is designed for a minimum of fifteen (15) hours, maximum twenty (20) hours of classroom instruction, student examinations, practical exercises and the student handgun proficiency demonstration.

Course objective: The overall objective of this course is to educate students on the responsibilities related to school safety who are employees of a school district or open-enrollment charter school who hold a license to carry a handgun. Outlined objectives are:

• Protection of students
• Interaction of license holders with first responders
• Tactics for denying an intruder entry into a classroom or school facility
• Methods for increasing a license holders’ accuracy with a handgun while under duress