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Using diagrams

Diagrams

This lesson has six videos explaining how to use visual aids (diagrams and apps) during your lessons.

There are many ways to get your message across to your learners. Different people learn in different ways and so you will need to vary your teaching style to ensure that you get the best results.

For example:

Some people like to learn things by doing, jumping straight in and getting hands on practise; others learn best when they discuss things in detail before starting to practise.

'Learning preferences' is quite an expansive subject and you will no doubt want to develop your skills after you qualify to learn more about different teaching and learning methods, but for now it's sufficient to be aware that people learn differently and that if something isn't working you need to try a different approach.

Diagrams for all...

One teaching method that can be useful for most if not all learning styles is the use of diagrams - these can be used in different ways for different people.

Before proceeding further click here to download a set of basic teaching diagrams* - one of the videos uses an example from the 'Meeting vehicles' page. (PDF file requires Adobe Reader 10 or later).

Before starting to use the diagrams, read the notes which will give more information about how the diagrams can help you teach people with a range of different learning styles.

IMPORTANT: The diagrams will help you to give lesson briefings and explanations, but we strongly suggest that you do not 'learn' specific briefings or fixes for particular errors.

When you learn 'set briefings' or set fixes for driving errors you run the risk of becoming inflexible with your lesson delivery. This will inevitably cause problems with customers because you might not communicate your ideas in a way that they can understand.

What we do suggest is that you learn the briefing process - this is very easy. All you have to do is talk about each bullet point on the diagrams for around 20 seconds as explained in the fourth video.

* Note: the diagram pack has 20 diagrams which are provided for practise purposes and only cover a limited set of subjects from the current DVSA Official Syllabus. The subjects have been selected to help you to gain the broad range of teaching skills required for your exam.

Remember that you can choose to teach any subject for the exam - including those listed, however, we would normally recommend that you do not choose a cockpit-drill/controls lesson or 'set manoeuvre' (unless as a short recap exercise) as these might not offer the examiner a full overview of your teaching ability and thus make it harder for him/her to asses your standard.

You can download a more comprehensive set of 70+ diagram pages and 13x special 'coaching diagrams' as part of your ADI MasterClass Gold Membership (if you have allowed your membership to lapse the diagrams are available for purchase at adimasterclass.co.uk).

Next: Step 2 - Introduction to teaching aids