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Texas Concealed Handgun Association

General comments.
Are you a member? Why?
Have you used their lesson plan?
Have you used them in any other capacity?
Evaluation of their usefulness on a scale of 1 to 10?

Well CWOOD, I too am interested in the TCHIA and I was thinking about joining and buying their lesson plan. I guess there are no members here.
How about it instructors???

I bought their lesson plan. It is largly an basis or outline to BEGIN to construct your CHL presentaion. It is by NO MEANS a comprehensive or complete discussion of the things required to give the whole thing.

I do use the lesson plan, although heavily annotated, and with a few personal disclaimers.
I have a real distaste for the way the "non-violent conflict resolution" portion is cut and pasted. It really requires a considerable amount of outside knowledge in order to be deciphered, as the basis for what is written is nowhere to be found in the material. At one time I was a counselor, so I had more than passing glimpses of near the same material in that "life" That portion needs a serious overhaul to get it to layman level. Or to even make sense in it's broken portions.

The remainder of the manual is at least sensible, and does "teach to the test". Which makes it simpler to make sure I don't overlook something. Especially, after taking a side trip to answer a question.

Would I buy enough books to handout? no.
Continue to use it? yes. Especially since mine is marked up, with notes, ideas, exceptions, code, etc.

I'm a member, but didn't care much for their lesson plan. I wrote my own, using the DPS materials and other sources. After literally hundreds of hours of work on it, I think it's tolerable. I'm constantly changing things, though. There's no way I could stick with a canned lesson plan, nor could I pass it off to my students.