PRACTICAL TEACHING SKILLS FOR DRIVING INSTRUCTORS

by John Miller (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $10.14

  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.

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  Paperback
  2009

  $3.80

  Written for both existing and trainee driving instructors, Practical Teaching Skills for Driving Instructors shows how to develop and improve the ability to teach driving as a lifetime skill. The companion title to the popular best-selller The Driving Instructor's Handbook , it offers advice on teaching, communication and coaching skills. Fully revised, it investigates how and why people learn and the different teaching and learning processes involved. With sections on structuring a lesson and problem solving, it also looks at the reasons why people learn to drive and the motivation involved in seeing it through, from early stage lessons to the final practical test. An indispensable guide for all new and established driving instructors, Practical Teaching Skills for Driving Instructors provides all the necessary advice for the conscientious instructor keen to communicate effectively with their pupils.