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The Elite Mindset & The Part 2 Test Of Driving Ability

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This blog is from my other blog page... the Elite Mindset will help those training to become Driving Instructors with their preparations for the Part 2 Test Of Driving Ability As an examiner for Diamond Advanced Motorists, it is necessary for me to complete and pass a Diamond Elite Test every three years. This advanced driving test is recognised as one of the two most searching fault based tests in the UK, requiring you to drive for 90 minutes, completing several reverse manoeuvres and demonstrating 20 minutes of commentary driving. In order to be walk away with a pass certificate, in addition to sticking to the rules in the Highway Code with precision and not doing anything dangerous, you need to attract less than 2 driver faults - and they must be unrelated; you won't be successful if those 2 are in the same fault category. As you can see, the standard required here is high (this test is available to anyone who wishes to take it and you can get more details at  www.advanced
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Teaching kids to cross roads safely

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This morning, one of my children walked in front of a car... O is 6yrs old and always walks to school with me. Since he was 3, it's become a habit that every time we approach a road that we want to cross, we wait at the kerbside and look both ways to see if it's safe to cross. I let O do all the work and make the decision and ask him questions to facilitate the process and check the decision is right This process has been working great! It's a basic teaching process known as coaching where there's an initial assumption that O doesn't want to get hurt as he crosses the road and questions are used to check that this assumption is correct (it was) before prompting him further with questions that get HIM to suggest what actions are needed to ensure it is safe before crossing. As "his teacher" in this case, I only add information where he doesn't seem to know it himself (and in spite of his young age, I don't assume he doesn't know it - I
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Location: Rode Heath, Stoke-on-Trent ST7, UK
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The ADI Qualification process

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You can't just decide to be a Driving Instructor one morning, go out and buy a rooftop box, get your car fitted with dual controls and then go out there teaching people to drive. For many, very good reasons, Driving Instruction is a regulated and licensed profession, and you must first go through a searching three part qualification process. Before you attempt any exams, the very first step is to apply to join the register of Approved Driving Instructors through the gov.uk website and part of this involves an enhanced DBS check - what used to be known as a criminal records check. Once this is completed, you will receive your PRN number , which is a reference number that will identify you for as long as you are associated with the register of Approved Driving Instructors. The Part 1 test of subject knowledge Once you have a PRN number and have been accepted to apply to join the register, you are entitled to book and take the first exam, which is a 100 question long theo
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Location: Rode Heath, Stoke-on-Trent ST7, UK
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How to choose a good provider of Driving Instructor Training services

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Most people come into Driving Instructor Training as a result of a change in their personal circumstances. They might be made redundant or they might find themselves needing more flexibility in their lives. very few people seem to actually plan, from school age, to become Driving Instructors. When  you are in these situations, it is very easy to be taken in by the claims made about how easy it is and what the potential earnings are and the list of people happy to tell you what you want to hear is high! The truth is that a Driving Instructor is a Teacher and as you would expect, they are expected to demonstrate in the qualification process that they are experts in their field - you wouldn't want a Teacher of maths at the local high school teaching your kids if they were only just capable of passing the same exams themselves would you! So it is a fact that only 1 in 4 of those people who embark on Driving Instructor Training nationally will go on to qualify and operate a
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Location: Rode Heath, Stoke-on-Trent ST7, UK
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Train to become a Driving Instructor

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I imagine that the story for most Driving Instructors is similar... nobody left school with it in mind that they would ever do this for a living - we all seem to have made a decision to change our lives at some stage. In my own case, I got an apprenticeship and became a Design Engineer / Project Manager for a famous company when I left school. I loved the job, but I absolutely hated the politics! I was surrounded by people who just couldn't say "well done" or "that's great, thank you" and there was a time when I was asked to illustrate the amount of waste in one of the projects in graph form for my departmental director's presentation to the board and it had taken all day just to get the colours of the graph right for him! I had been in Engineering for 15 years when I realised that I had become unhappy and that's how I ended up becoming a Driving Instructor . I have been working as one full time now for 15 years and enjoy a varied and enjoyabl
Location: Alsager, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
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