Practical Teaching Skills for Driving Instructors

by Margaret Stacey (Author), Margaret Stacey (Author), Tony Scriven (Author), John Miller (Author), Margaret Stacey (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $12.25

  The new, fully-revised edition of this popular book shows existing driving instructors, and those wishing to become instructors, how their skills can be developed in order to improve their ability to teach driving as a lifetime skill. It draws together all the teaching skills necessary for good driving instruction and shows how such skills can be developed and applied in practice, such as: verbal and non-verbal communication skills, body language, presenting a lesson, listening, etc.; written communication skills - hand-outs, keeping records, visual aids, etc.; specialist skills - devising tests, lesson planning, route planning, fault assessment, role-play etc.; personal skills - problem solving, decision making, etc.

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  Paperback
  2000

  $6.86

  Practical Teaching Skills for Driving Instructors 'Practical Teaching Skills contains all the information you need on how to improve your teaching skills in line with current practices and established criteria.' Mike Ambrose - ADI Registrar 'It is ideal support material for the Driving Instructor's Handbook and gives helpful advice to trainee or new instructors.' Driving Magazine Of the few books available on driving instruction skills and techniques, none offer the truly practical approach to be found in Practical Teaching Skills for Driving Instructors. Now in its third edition, this popular book has been fully updated. Written for existing and trainee driving instructors, this book demonstrates how instructors can develop their skills and improve their ability to teach driving as a lifetime skill. Drawing together the elements necessary for good driving instruction, there is also helpful advice on how skills can be developed and applied in practice. Topics covered include: verbal and non-verbal communication - body language, presenting a lesson, listening; written communication skills - hand-outs, keeping records, visual aids; specialist skills - devising tests, lesson planning, fault assessment; personal skills - problem solving, decision making. Also providing valuable preparation material for the ADI Examination and Check Test, plus advice on how ADI Training Centres can become Approved Training Establishments under the ORDIT scheme, Practical Teaching Skills for Driving Instructors, is the guide for every conscientious instructor. The authors each have more that 20 years' experience in the driver training industry and all are qualified as tutors of driving instructors. Margaret Stacey and John Miller are co-authors of the hugely successful Driving Instructor's Handbook (Kogan Page) which also has the recommendation of the DSA.