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

Miller, John; Stacey, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749463104 ISBN 13: 9780749463106

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2011

Synopsis

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-seller 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.

About this title

About the Authors

John Miller has been involved in the driver training industry for over 35 years. A qualified and experienced instructor trainer and LGV instructor, for many years he ran his own driving school for car and lorry drivers, together with an instructor training facility. He is now a consultant to the driver training industry.

John Miller is the author of The Driving Instructor's Handbook, which is listed by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency as recommended reading material for the Approved Driving Instructors' exams, and Practical Teaching Skills for Driving Instructors, both published by Kogan Page.

The late Margaret Stacey served on the Management Committee of ADITE - The Approved Driving Instructors' Training Establishment directory (now ORDIT) - as the representative of The Approved Driving Instructors' National Joint Council. She was a secretary to the Steering Committee that formulated the standards for the NVQ in Driving Instruction. She was a Driving Standards Agency Approved Driving Instructor and qualified tutor and had well over 30 years' experience within the driving instruction industry.

Margaret Stacey was author of Learn to Drive in 10 Easy Stages (published by Kogan Page), The Advanced Driver's Handbook and the AUTODRIVA Instructor Home Study Programme, which is used, on licence, by other training establishments throughout the UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0749463104
• ISBN 13: 9780749463106
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272