PDI Upfront Training
48-hours of training
48-hours of training
Our learners currently pay £40 per hour for their lessons.
Therefore 48 hours at £40 would cost £1,920
This package for 48 hours of instructor training costs £1,500
Nothing more nothing less, unless you require additional hours.
So what does this package actually include?
This will assist with the first stage of your training which will be about becoming fully versed on the rules of the road and best driving methods.
These books along with others are the foundation of becoming a driving instructor and will be necessary for you to take and pass the theory test, along with being knowledgeable to assist your learners and answer any questions they may have once you are teaching.
We will mainly be in the background to start with for your theory learning, however, that does not mean we do nothing. Studying the theory and especially the hazard perception section of the theory test tends to catch a lot of potential driving instructors out.
We will have you back for any areas of concern for you and also to ensure that the areas you may be unfamiliar with are fully covered.
There will be regular test sheets that we will supply to ensure that your knowledge is growing or to highlight any weaker areas.
Symbols
Technical
Information
Manual or
automatic
How much do you know about the vehicle?
Best driving
Rules of the road
Bad habit rectification
How proficient are you at driving?
Do you have any bad habits?
Plan ahead
IPSGA
TUG
Building your car control skills to the standard of an advanced driver. To include commentary driving.
This is 1-1 training. The training needs to be 1-1 so that you have our undivided attention for the full 8-hours.
Too many driving schools who offering training carry out this section of their instructor training as 2-1 sessions.
We believe you are paying good money for your training and you will get much more out of our sessions as they are solely devoted to you.
This give you more time to hone your driving skills in weaker areas.
We endeavor to mix this training over a few sessions so that you experience driving in different weather condition if possible, including night driving, motorway, dual carriageway, town and rural roads along with all manoeuvres including those not in the driving test along with an introduction to commentary driving.
You are welcome to add more hours to this section of the training, but it will incur additional costs by the hour.
Stage 3
40 hours of in-car training
Becoming the instructor.
40-hours is what is included in this section of the training.
This will not make you a proficient instructor, but should supply you with the tools and information to build on to become a good instructor.
Fluency in your communication to a pupil, the correct use of words when giving instruction or directions, fault finding and how to rectify them.
Being prepared for what learners may do during their lesson and how to preempt faults happening in the first place.
How to deliver a quality structured lesson.
How to make learning fun.
How to ask questions.
How to give full guidance to new drivers.
How to prompt when prompting is necessary.
How to learn to be quite when your learner has taken responsibility for particular tasks, right up to the stage where they have full responsibility for the drive.
Route planning.
Teaching manoeuvres.
Carrying out mock tests.
Building your pupils skills further than just to pass the driving test.
Delivering and understanding a lesson that meets the 17 competencies and meets the national standard for driver and rider training as well as the GDE matrix.
Time keeping, and diary management.
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