Part 3

Your Driving Lessons Code of Practice Pass Plus

The Job ORDIT Six Points Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Consultation and Development Trainer Training

THE TEST OF YOUR ABILITY TO INSTRUCT

The purpose of Part-Three is to test your ability to instruct. The examiner does this by role playing a learner driver. He or she will give you some background information so that you can determine what needs to be taught next. The examiner will then go into role and act just like a learner driver at the stage he or she described. You are then required to give the appropriate lesson to him or her.

The examiner will in fact play two roles. During the first half hour of the test he or she will play the role of a learner driver learning a topic for the first time. Consequently, you would start the first lesson with an explanation of the task you wanted them to complete. You would then help the learner to put this into practice. After the first half hour the examiner will stop the first lesson and go on and explain what he or she wanted for the second lesson. In the second lesson the examiner always plays the role of a learner driver nearing test standard. Or a full license holder who still has some problems to sort out. It would be your job to find out precisely what those problems were. You would then proceed to cure them.

PART 3 TEST OF INSTRUCTIONAL ABILITY

This is the most difficult part of the exam, a fact that is borne out by the national pass rate being below 30%!

Even if you sign up with a driving school under the 'Trainee Licence Scheme' there is no guarantee that you will pass this test.

The most important thing is to get plenty of good training. Three-in-a-car is not a good ratio for effective learning. (Some of the larger establishments operate in this manner!)

For this part of the test, we conduct training on an individual basis. This means you get the full benefit of the training time which you are paying for - no sitting in the back of the car for two thirds of your time merely "observing".

The amount of training you need will depend entirely on how you quickly you "learn how to teach". As a rough guide you need to allow for a minimum of 40 hours. You will then be advised on whether you need more to bring you up to the standard required to pass.

Training can be carried out round your current commitments. Or intensive course by arrangement.