Practical Teaching Skills for Driving Instructors: Develop and Improve Your Teaching, Training and Coaching Skills

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

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  Paperback
  2002

  $29.14

  Written for both existing and trainee driving instructors, this title shows how to develop and improve the ability to teach driving. 'Contains all the information you need on how to improve your teaching skills in line with current practices and established criteria.' Approved Driving Instructor Register . 'Ideal support material to The Driving Instructor's Handbook and gives helpful advice to trainee or new instructors.' - Driving Magazine . 'Not just useful for new entrants to the driver training fraternity, but a source of knowledge on modern, up-to-date skills that could be usefully absorbed by those who have been around a while but need some updating. (The authors said they would buy me a drink if I said good things about this book. They had better buy me a couple because I think it's very, very good'. - John Lepine MBE - General Manager, The Motor Schools Association. 'Pretty much indispensable.'- Driving Instructor Magazine . A companion to the popular best-seller The Driving Instructor's Handbook , this new edition of Practical Teaching Skills for Driving Instructors has been thoroughly revised and restructured to bring it absolutely up-to-date and make it even more user-friendly. Written for both existing and trainee driving instructors, it shows how to develop and improve the ability to teach driving as a lifetime skill. Topics covered include: verbal and non-verbal communication; written communications - hand-outs, keeping records, visual aids; problem solving and decision making; lesson planning, devising tests and presentation; how to make lessons rewarding and enjoyable; how to improve teaching methods; practical guidance for those preparing for the ADI entrance exam; and practical guidance for experienced ADIs preparing for their Check Test. For every conscientious instructor keen to communicate well with his or her pupils, this essential book provides all the necessary practical advice and guidance.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.35

  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.