Here at DTE-Elite, we’re always looking to help you out with all your driving instructor needs. And boy have we got a treat for you. Use this simple trick to TRANSFORM your driving lessons. Video notes below 🔽🔽🔽
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S: Specific (simple, sensible, significant)
It’s important to make sure the goal is specific and not general. You can use these:
- “Today we will work on junctions”
- “By the end of this session we will be able to reverse into a bay in a car park”
- “By the end of this session we will be more confident on roundabouts”
M: measurable (meaningful, motivating)
You need to be able to measure the amount of progress made on this goal.
- Scaling is a great tool for this. At the beginning asking them if 1 is not at all and 10 is fully competent how would you rate yourself on (the goal)?
- Done at the beginning and end should show an improvement.
- You can use more qualitative questions as well such as ‘how do you feel about (the goal) now?
A: achievable (agreed, attainable)
Is the goal achievable in the time we have, and does it fit in with what they have learnt so far? Is the goal realistic?
A learner on an early lesson might want to do some manoeuvres. However, maybe their clutch work is not so good so is it realistic to be doing a manoeuvre now.
R: Realistic (relevant, reasonable)
Here we look at if the goal is relevant to the learning, is it what’s required? Is it at the right time? Is it worthwhile?
T: Time
Can we fit this into the allocated time of this session?
Remember, for our learner, sessions should not be longer than 30 minutes, each 2 hour lesson can contain 3 x 30 minute sessions.
