In this section, you’ll learn all the essential SKILLS that you’ll need to deliver lessons to your pupils.
You should complete all the SKILLS tutorials and pass each QUIZ with 80% before getting in-car with your trainer.
In this FREE Taster course, you can sample the skills lesson on Giving Route Directions. To get access to the other lessons, please purchase the FULL course.
Just follow these simple steps:
- Study each section in turn
- Watch the video tutorial and check the ‘Materials’ tab above for more content
- Pass the QUIZ
- Complete all the ACTIVITIES
- Get in-car training to practice with your trainer
Full course content: SKILLS
- Agree Goals
- Giving Route Directions (included in this Free Taster below)
- Route Planning
- Levels of Instruction
- Agree Roles & Responsibilities
- Fixing Faults
- Lesson Structure
- Briefings & Visual Aids
- Control & Intervention
- Asking Effective Questions
- Giving Feedback
- Self-Reflection & Self Evaluation
- Conducting Mock Tests
- Giving Demonstrations
In-car training
Find a good local trainer to help you practice and develop your new skills.
They will role-play the learner for you and allow you to complete the ACTIVITIES
Crucially, they will give you feedback to help you improve.
Points to consider
When giving Route Directions:
- ADI method (Alert Direct Identify)
- When to use an Identifier
- Clear, concise and in good time – Keep It Simple
- Local knowledge – know your area
- Beware – next ‘available’ road
- Look at the pupil, projecting you voice (bumps in the road)
- What the examiner says at the start of a driving test (DT1)
- Independent drive – follow roads signs and markings
- Using a Sat Nav on lessons
- Dealing with pupils with Dyslexia or Dyspraxia (left and right)
- Going the wrong way (Cassandra example with Daisy)