I hope someone can give suggestions for this. I have a 10 month old female GSD. This girl is very hard headed! She listens well except when it comes to jumping up. We have tried the knee, turning, ignoring, grabbing her scruff and commands to sitz with treats...nothing works. When you ignore or turn away, she will jump up on your back, side or wherever she can reach. She will sitz on command except when she wants to jump and she will even ignore treats and toys. I have also established that I am the pack leader. I have done "marker training with her" and she responds to this. The time she jumps is when we come home and get her out of the crate, when she is bored, when she wants to play and when she is unsure what to do, (ie, our other dog has the toy she wanted). She also exhibits this behavior when she is faced with a new situation. We are constantly working with her and teaching her new commands, which she does love, but this jumping has to stop. We have claw marks on our backs, arms and sides. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Hi Diane,
Do you keep her on a short drag line in the house?

This makes it much easier to redirect her off you, or to prevent her from jumping in the first place. A well-placed foot on the drag line while you are ignoring the attempts to jump may get the point across that if she jumps she gets no attention.

I'm going to guess that the reason that ignoring her/turning to your side hasn't worked is that when she continues to jump you eventually respond in some way to her. So she's learned that persistance will eventually pay off in attention (even negative attention) if she keeps jumping.

You could teach her an 'off' command, using markers. Or, you could set up a training scenario with really good treats and thick clothing, and wait her out until she stops jumping, then mark and reward when she has 4 on the floor. You would need to do this multiple times for her to 'get' that not jumping is what you are looking for.

Is it possible the dog is not getting enough exercise? Sound like she has more energy than she knows what to do with.

Also, the advice of having on a drag line (short leash with no handle on which to get caught on stuff) is very good. I'd have her sit calmly before coming out of the crate and would put the line on her prior to letting her out. If she starts to jump - put a foot on the lead, keeping her from being able to do so, and continue training/rewarding for the correct behavior.

But please don't overlook more exercise...

I notice you mention that your dog jumps on you for what amounts to reassurance.

Have you considered doing "foot work" with the dog? If the dog is deriving psychological comfort from physical contact, things like ladder work can be a really big tool in building the dog's confidence, and your relationship.

Ladder work looks something like this:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs627.snc4/58708_144784688890275_100000762343134_194406_2830165_n.jpg

http://twincountyschutzhundclub.com/images/tcsc_20members_20july_2018_202010_200161_f4xa.jpg

Note that with the less experienced dogs, you're literally guiding each foot into position, as in the second pic.

Just a ladder horizontally elevated 1-2 feet off the ground.
You can begin teaching the dog to trust you as you guide it's foot from rung to rung, and dogs that derive comfort from the physical contact really benefit from the work.

It also gives you the opportunity to teach two very awesome commands that every dog should know: "step" and "stand".

Step, every time the dog moves each individual foot, to teach the dog how to step. This is useful for teaching dogs not to jump on and off of things, but rather to step up one foot at a time. With large breed dogs, this can be a very valuable command.

Stand- all four feet in contact with the ground, or the surface you're standing on, is very useful for a jumping dog.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I am going to give all your suggestions a try. She does go into her crate quietly as she knows she will get a treat, so now I will train her to come out just as quietly. I will also use the drag line....and perhaps ladder training. Thanks again for all your help and suggestions.