04/03/2021
🥇Meet The Standards TOP TIPS🥇 🚦No.6
▪️SC/Part 3 Risk Management
✅Were directions and instructions given to the pupil clear and given in good time✅
⛔️ The DVSA ADI 1 states:-
Any input from the ADI must be sufficient, timely and appropriate. It is important that ADIs take account of the ability of their pupils when giving directions. Directions given late, or in a confusing or misleading way, do not allow the pupil to respond and can make weaknesses worse. Too many unnecessary instructions from the ADI can both de-motivate the pupil and create a real hazard.
In order to manage risk efficiently, so that our pupils can achieve their goals, we must ensure that we provide in the following three elements:-
⭐️ 1️⃣.Give directions that are clear and timely.
If you are directing your client along the route, then ensure you give them well timed and clear directions. For example “take the next road on the left” may leave the client asking “So not this left? The next one?”
A better approach would be to change the wording from ‘next’ to ‘first’ (or second) and wherever possible add a reference point. For example “take the first road on the left, it’s just after the blue parked car.” In this way your pupil has a clear instruction and a visual focal point.
Make sure you give the direction timely, so that once they have processed the direction they have time to manage their approach, a late direction can be detrimental to your clients development as it could lead to a safety critical situation, since your pupil won’t have time to process the manoeuvre.
Consider the human factors of your particular client, left-right confusion as an example, where it’s common for a person to confuse lefts and rights whilst performing other tasks, affects around 20% of the population and is believed to be more common in left handed people and in females.
⭐️2️⃣.Silence.
Silence is a tool which can be hugely beneficial, to both the instructor and the learner. Think about how you learn and reflect best, is it with a clutter of external distractions or in situations where the only focal point is the task at hand? Where conversation and questioning can cause the brain to overload and lead the learner into making mistakes, becoming extremely detrimental to the learning process....Silence can be Golden! Depending on the competency of your pupil, their knowledge and learning style, it’s extremely likely that they will perform the task better in silence, since their focus will not be divided between achieving the goal and listening to their instructor.
⭐️3️⃣. Aside from directions, limit any other input to the goal of the session, or to manage risk.
Before asking any questions on the move, consider two things:-
A. Is this question going to benefit my pupils learning around the goal of the session?
B. Is the purpose of this question to keep the car safe?
If the answer to both of those question is ‘No’ then don’t ask the question. It is better for you to let your pupil focus on the goal of the session and their responsibilities for managing risk, than diverting their focus to non-essential factors. Remember the DVSA ask us to limit our input and remind us of the dangers of mobile phone use while driving, in comparison to continual questioning on the move.
▪️ Time your directions to ensure your pupil has adequate time to perform the manoeuvre, keep your directions clear and concise and consider giving the responsibility for the route to the learner. Limit any additional input to learning around the goal of the session, if it doesn’t benefit the learning goal, it’s not important to the session, unless its purpose is to manage safety critical situations, in which case, wherever possible use leading questions to keep the responsibilities for decisions with the pupil. As often as possible help your pupil to develop by staying silent therefore limiting the amount of channels the brain is using to process information and accelerate learning from short term memory to long term memory. Particularly whilst they practise or reflect.
Ensure that your pupil is not overloaded with input that is poorly timed or misleading....
🥅So that they can achieve their goal🥅
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