In-Car Training
A physical introduction to and discussion about you workplace in which you will have a group discussion about professionalism and acquaint yourself with the instructors seat considering the effect that your seating position can have on driving lessons.
Preparation/revision for this topic: Role & Workplace
This gives you an opportunity to practise the basic instructional and talking skills that you have learned and been practising in your course. You will have an opportunity to give route directions in a number of different situations.
Preparation/revision for this topic: Giving Directions
Some new instructors have problems 'getting the words out' - however, if you have practised the commentary exercises in iCourse driving and fully understood the course information about talking skills you will quickly become fluent with your 'in-car language'.
Preparation/revision for this topic: Talking skills & Commentary Driving
This session is primarily designed to get you used to talking and delivering training information while the car is stationary. During the session you will simply be required to introduce a lesson following the pattern set out in your study.
Preparation/revision for this topic: Lesson Introductions
Different people learn in different ways, their are also teaching methods that are better suited to some topics than others. Teaching aids can include diagrams, models, video and even everyday objects like the phone in your pocket. In this session you will consider different teaching aids and their use.
Preparation/revision for this topic: Teaching Aids
This is perhaps the most important session in your course because everything you do is reliant on your awareness of what the learner is thinking and doing.
In this session you will complete a set-exercise designed to help you recognise the importance, and gain the skill, of watching the learner - in particular at junctions.
Preparation/revision for this topic: Watching The Learner
Here you will combine your skills of watching the learner with your basic talking skills and get used to looking at the learner before giving instruction or other information. This is necessary to make sure that you see how the learner responds to your input - it will also make it easier for the learner to hear you in a noisy in-car environment.
Preparation/revision for this topic: Talking skills
This short session considers the barriers to in-car communication and how the skills you have learned earlier will help overcome them. The name comes from the original development wok for this session where participants wore blindfolds. Some trainers still use blindfolds when doing this exercise (but their use is not compulsory).
There is no specific Preparation/revision for this session.
The skill of giving briefings will sometimes be necessary when introducing new subjects. The same skills are often required when discussing errors and areas for improvement. This session guides you through the process of giving full briefings using the Visual Teaching System - elements of the process can then easily be isolated/shortened when used as part of an error correction process.
Preparation/revision for this topic: Briefings & VTS Practise
Being able to formulate and ask questions is an essential tool in helping your learners to think for themselves and develop new ideas. It's of the utmost importance to understand that questions are not something that your learn... Q&A is dynamic process that is built on careful listening and watching.
Preparation/revision for this topic: Q&A
In order to learn your customers will need feedback about what is going well and what is not so good. It's essential that you keep your learners in touch with 'reality' during their training. In this session you will learn how feedback can motivate or de-motivate and in turn, how this affects learning.
Preparation/revision for this topic: Feedback
In this session your trainer will demonstrate some common errors, help you to analyse the causes and consider ways in which the errors can be minimised.
Preparation/revision for this topic: Recognising errors
SAS is a basic method that can be used to develop skills and/or for remedial action.
Preparation/revision for this topic: The SAS routine & Job sharing
Sometimes Part Three test candidates report on their experience with language like "I felt that I was on a runaway train!" This session is designed to help you to keep control of your lessons, even if things go wrong (which sooner or later they will!).
Revise Keeping Control
This half-hour session will offer an opportunity to explore any issues you might have with your learning so far.
In this session you will practise using the dual footbrake and clutch and taking control of the steering and consider the use of other controls.
Preparation/revision for this topic: Dual controls
A discussion about the benefits of demonstration followed by practise using different methods'
Preparation/revision for this topic: Demonstration
Early in your training you learned about 'small chunk training'. You have had experience on the receiving end with your study/practise, a good example would be the commentary driving exercises in Part-Two. In this session you will be considering lesson 'phases' - mini-lessons. How to break down your driving lessons into manageable parts for both you and the learner.
Preparation/revision for this topic: Lesson Planning
As in Module 3, this half-hour session will offer an opportunity to explore any issues you might have with your learning so far.
This module is split into six sessions, each covering one of the listed topics at 'beginner' level.
During the sessions you will apply the skills you have learned so far to specific lesson content, however, the sessions are not about lesson content they are about lesson delivery. We assume that having followed the course your content knowledge will be more than sufficient. If you suspect that you have a weakness in any area of lesson content please revise the Part-Two projects, DriverActive and 'Driving, essential skills'.
Preparation/revision: Remedial Action Lesson Themes Plus the relevant lesson subjects in DriverActive, the Part-Three online lesson subjects area, and as linked.
This module is split into six sessions, each covering one of the listed topics at 'trained' or Full Licence Holder' level.
As in Module 6, the sessions are not about lesson content they are about lesson delivery. We assume that having followed the course your content knowledge will be more than sufficient. If you suspect that you have a weakness in any area of lesson content please revise the relevant subjects (as a minimum).
Preparation/revision: The relevant lesson subjects in DriverActive, the Part-Three online lesson subjects area, and as linked.
Roundabouts – failed test
Pedestrian Crossings – failed test
Speed distance Full Licence Holder – assess/fix
Rural roads Full Licence Holder – limit point
In this Module you will be planning and delivering a driving lesson and then assessing the lesson against DVSA criteria.
The aim is to develop and deliver a 'full lesson' while your trainer plays the role of a learner driver. The full lesson delivery will last for around 45/50 minutes during which time your trainer will be aiming to stay in role (as opposed to instructing/assisting you).
1. Discussion/demonstration about lesson routes and starting lessons with learners of differing standards.
2. Building a lesson 1 – team discussion + Student 1 delivers
3. Building a lesson 2 – team discussion + Student 2 delivers
Preparation/revision: Lesson Structure Lesson Planning Route Planning