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Course Description

This twenty-day course will provide Driving Instructors with the opportunity to explore classroom-specific instructional techniques and to develop their lesson-planning, presentation and communication skills.  The major area of concentration in this course is the knowledge, method and practice of teaching the MTO Approved Beginner Driver Education 30 hour classroom course.

Topics to be covered include:

• Lesson planning
• Instructional methods for the classroom
• Use of visual aid equipment
• Administration of a driver education learning program, including schedules, instruction content, students and materials
• Communication skills
• Instructional skills
• Practice teaching skill and information units
• Setting student learning objectives
• Measuring student learning

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, graduates will demonstrate an acceptable skill, performance and knowledge level in all of the key course components.

Process

Classroom formal & informal instruction, workshops & practical exercises with home preparation each evening.

Resources

Supplied:

• Candidate manual.

Bring your own (current version);

• Driver’s Handbook
• Highway Traffic Act

Evaluation

Full attendance, classroom performance, assignments and lesson planning, presentations and tests, overall participation.

Certification

Certification of Completion.

Prerequisites

Valid Driving Instructor License.

Duration: Twenty (20) days; (15 days in-class at OSL and 5 days as home study)