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Can Drivers Really Teach Themselves?  A Practitioners Guide to Using Learner Centred and Coaching Approaches in Driver Education
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Many now believe this book to be the leading book on the use of coaching and client centred approaches in driver education. Northern Ireland's Driving Vehicle Agency (DVA) have now added the book to its list of recommended reading for driving instructors and motorbike instructors.  Since it launch it has been widely exported to other countries and most recently has been translated into Finnish, with other language versions soon to follow.   

Written by Ian Edwards, an international consultant in driver education and training, it looks at how to use coaching approaches to develop not only driving performance but also the driver's ability to self-evaluate and develop themselves. The book provides simple to follow examples of the coaching approaches it advocates.  These examples can easily be transferred to any area of driver education and training.    

Since the launch of the book a number of local authorities have bought or subsidised the book for instructors involved with schemes that they operate.  These include: Buckinghamshire, Lewisham and Sheffield.  Gill Roberts, Senior Road Safety Officer at St Helens Council Road Safety Unit, has also recently added an excellent forward to the book.   

The book discusses:
  • The Goals for Driver Education (Keskinen et al 2010) 
  • Barriers to learning (see a short extract at the bottom of this page)
  • Using coaching techniques and models
  • The development of self-evaluation skills 
  • Micro-coaching 
  • Building a non-judgemental relationship 
You can download the full contents page of the book here.

Book Review
The ADINews completed an independent review of the book.  Below is a section that perhaps sums up what the reviewer thought of the book:

After reading this book I felt challenged; challenged to change the way I teach people to drive.  The book made so much sense I thought 'I have to try this', and I'd recommend it to anyone, especially those still sitting on the instruction/coaching fence, or who have their feet firmly planted in instruction.

The full content of the review can be read here.

Book Extract
Below is a short extract from the book which looks at how previous knowledge can act as a barrier to learning:

Resistance 
We start learning about traffic early on in our life, from an early stage we are watching traffic, being driven in cars and learning what is acceptable behaviour and what is not.  By the time we come to drive a vehicle at the age of 17 in the UK we will have a strongly fixed view of what a good driver is and how a good driver behaves.  This view of driving will be internal to ourselves, is likely to be hidden from others who we feel may not share this view, and will influence the way we interpret the driving environment. 

This picture of a good driver will be based on many things including:
  • How our parents drove and dealt with traffic as a pedestrian
  • Being a passenger in a vehicle
  • Our own experience of being a pedestrian
  • The view we believe is advocated by our peer group
  • The influence of the media 
  • Personal beliefs about how to behave, both on the road and in our lives generally
This previous knowledge and experience means that everything we are told about driving will be filtered or interpreted against and through this personal picture of a good driver. This interpretation will mean that many of the messages delivered by an instructor will be seen as unimportant, re-constructed or even rejected.  Many instructors will see this on a daily basis, for example a learner may ask an instructor who is driving them out to a quiet area “Do you always drive like this?”  This question may indicate the driving being demonstrated does not fit with the learner’s personal picture of a driver.  This personal picture frequently leads to resistance, with the learner nodding in all the right places but not necessarily altering their core beliefs about what a good driver is or how a good driver should behave.  Of course this is a very negative view of previous knowledge.  It can also be very positive as not all the previous knowledge will be poor or in conflict with safe driving.  The challenge for the instructor is to help the learner to understand how this previous knowledge can influence behaviour and their own strengths and weaknesses.   

Downloads
Grow plan 
Semi structured coaching plan
Example of a completed semi structures coaching plan
Instructor self reflective log
GDE

Lataukset (Finnish Version of Downloads)
GROW suunnitelma
Osin laadittu coaching suunnitelma
Esimerkki osin laaditusta coaching suunnitelmasta
Oma coaching loki
GDE

Feedback 
Below is just some of the fantastic feedback received from people who have bought the book:

I have just read your book - very impressed.  As the CPD coordinator for DISC (Driving Instructors Scottish Council) I think this book is a must for all ADI's.  It is well laid out and very easy to read and understand.  This book should be put on the list of approved books for ADIs and PDIs.  
Gavin Brownlie

This is the best book I have ever read on driver education, I am an ORDIT trainer and this book has taken my training to a whole new level!! This book would have saved me thousands of pounds in training over the past 9 years, I have worked with the country's top trainers and in all honesty, this book taught me more than any course I have ever attended! 
Shaun Bowen  

After attending Ian's coaching course on the Wirral and buying Can Drivers Really Teach Themselves I have come to believe that coaching can play a bigger part in an instructors life than I realised and I certainly recommend ADI's try it.
Peter Barnes 

I will be using this book for years to come, not just to help my pupils, but to help me self-evaluate my teaching and coaching methods with a view to progressing on a daily basis.
David Corsan.

This is the book on coaching for ADI's.  I have just completed a fleet training course with a group of instructors for whom coaching was, in the main, a bit of a mystery.  My time with them was limited, and so I needed to find a way to help them understand the principles of coaching easily.  This book proved to be the answer!  Its simplicity of style, readability and ease of understanding for the reluctant and doubting ADI, helped each of them to achieve their goals of a fleet part 3 pass!  Thank you so much Ian!
Jackie  Willis 

I'm going to read it over and over and immerse myself in it.  So when I need the techniques they are there from the tool box
Simon Russell 

I am reading your book, very impressed how you have kept a subject as coaching into a very understandable approach congratulations! 
Russell  

 

Overview

This book is aimed at driving instructors and road safety professionals across the world with an interest in improving and developing the way that driver education is delivered and learnt. It focuses on how to use learner centred and coaching techniques in driver education rather than what to teach. The book is designed around the same learner centred and coaching principles it advocates. It looks first at the problem and then at possible solutions, it asks you questions that will encourage you to ask questions of yourself.
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