We often get questions on this topic. Currently, the Church has no official family history course that I am aware of, since the DVD course was discontinued 2 or 3 years ago. If you have access to the old DVD, you can use it, but the focus of the program has changed to become more centered on Find, Take, Teach, which may be why the old course was discontinued.
FIND - Find a relative needing temple ordinances, check for duplicates and try to verify which ordinances are needed, and obtain permission if it is required.
TAKE - Print a temple card and take it to the temple to do needed ordinances.
TEACH - Teach someone else to do the same.
Temple and Family History Consultant
What is currently available seems focused on training for those with family history callings, rather than the general membership.Take the time to familiarize yourself with this training on family history callings: https://www.lds.org/callings/temple-and-family-history
The Family History Guide
Other than that, the first teaching resource I tend to think of is The Family History Guide by The Family History Guide, LLC http://www.TheFHGuide.com This is a huge resource! You can use it to create many different family history classes.
FS Family Tree User Group
One place where you can find prepared curricula for courses is this website.
http://fsfamilytreeusergroup.com/home.html
A look at their Training by Audience page alone is very impressive.
http://fsfamilytreeusergroup.com/training_by_audience.php
It is very possible that none of these is exactly what you need for teaching your class, but I encourage you to take the time to look at them again, if you have not looked at them recently.
You may have your own favorite resources. I would like to hear of them.
Thanks Bill for the endorsement
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