Teaching Part 1 & Part 2
Typically, Part-One has been taught by dumping a load of books onto the poor student and leaving him/her to get on with it!
The better courses provide feedback about mock-exam papers but often there is little else. Many classroom courses typically concentrate on the exam papers and do not offer much more than the student would get from studying at home.
The Part-One question bank has been made available to all candidates, and theory CD roms are available, as a result the pass rate has improved, however...
This is not necessarily a good thing! Students are learning questions by rote and failing to gain sufficient depth of knowledge to stand them in good stead when it comes to Part-Two and Part-Three.
The SmartDriving Part-One course is designed to give our students a greater depth of knowledge that will help them at Part-two, and especially Part-Three so that when they arrive in your car for training they will already be streets ahead of many students from our competition.
A small element of the course
The Part-One element of the five-day trainer's course occupies only a small part of the overall time, and is simply included to give you an overview of the work that your students will have completed before meeting you.
Teaching Part-Two
For many, Part-Two was a matter of going out in the car and having their driving pulled to pieces by an 'insensitive' trainer.
While this might make students resilient and get them through Part-Two, it does little to integrate practical driving skills with the rest of the course.
John Farlam believes that Part-Two is much more than a driving course. It is the 'Glue' that helps to stick everything else together.
By relating this phase of training to the other parts through structured integration, students will gain a deeper knowledge base and become more confidence in their own decision making skills, both as drivers and later, as teachers.
John's approach to Part-Two helps you in three ways:
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It shows you how to integrate your training with Parts One and Three therefore delivering a more 'holistic' programme and accelerating the learning process.
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It offers an alternative approach for starting Part-Two practical training. This simple method simply takes an aspect of driving which you should be teaching for Part-Two (but which is often neglected!) and uses it as a foundation for driving development.
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It considers the difference in approach necessary for the successful training of experienced drivers as opposed to learners.
Although only a a couple of hours of course are dedicated to Part-Two, the time will ensure you also have a basic understanding of driving skill that will enable you to prepare your own driving for the 'Cardington' driving test. This may well become a required standard for trainers in the future.
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