Practical Teaching Skills for Driving Instructors: Developing Your Client-Centred Learning and Coaching Skills

Improve your teaching and communication skills with this guide which is recommended reading by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) for the Approved Driving Instructor (ADI) examinations. Practical Teaching Skills for Driving Instructors is an indispensable handbook for all new and established driving instructors. Fully revised and updated for this 12th edition, it provides all the necessary advice to help driving instructors and anyone involved in driver training to communicate effectively with learners. Containing essential guidance on teaching, communication and coaching skills, Practical Teaching Skills for Driving Instructors is ideal for both experienced and trainee driving instructors. It explains how people learn and how to tailor the teaching approach to different needs. With sections on how structuring lessons, it covers the whole teaching process, from early stage lessons through to the final test. The companion title to the bestselling The Driving Instructor's Handbook, it will help you develop and improve your ability to teach drivers how to drive. Review: "Contains all the information you need on how to improve your teaching skills in line with current practices and established criteria" * The 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 driver training, but a source of knowledge of modern, up-to-date skills that could be usefully absorbed by those who have been around for a while but need some updating." -- John Lepine, MBE, General Manager * The Motor Schools Association * Contents: Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Learning to drive; Chapter - 02: Communication skills; Chapter - 03: Client-centred learning and coaching; Chapter - 04: Lesson structure and content; Chapter - 05: Structured driver training; Chapter - 06: National driving training standards explaining; Chapter - 07: The ADI standards check