Agenda
A full day of expert insight, practical learning and interactive workshops designed to give Driver Trainers new ideas, stronger skills and practical tools they can take straight back into their training.
The Power of Coaching and Behavioural Change
Professor Jonathan Passmore, Professor of Coaching | Henley Business School
What makes coaching effective, and how can Driver Trainers use it to encourage real and lasting changes in behaviour? Professor Jonathan Passmore explores the science and practice behind coaching and behavioural change, looking at how the right conversations, questions and techniques can help learners develop greater awareness, responsibility and safer decision-making.
What Works in Reducing Young-Driver Crash Risk
Dr Neale Kinnear, Shaun Helman and Adam Asmal | TRL
Young and newly qualified drivers remain one of the highest-risk groups on our roads, but what does the evidence tell us actually works in reducing that risk? This joint session brings together leading expertise in driver behaviour and road safety to explore the factors behind young-driver collisions, where interventions can make the biggest difference and what this means for the way we train the next generation of drivers.
Teaching Theory and Hazard Perception
Annie Winterburn | Theory Test Practice
Theory and hazard perception should be about far more than getting learners through two parts of the driving test. Annie Winterburn explores how trainers can make theory knowledge and hazard perception a meaningful part of practical learning, helping learners understand risk, anticipate developing situations and connect what they learn with what actually happens on the road.
Amanda Lane, Head of Driver Testing and Training Policy | DVSA
Colin Stewart, Assistant Chief Driving Examiner and Driver Training Policy Manager | DVSA
Where Trainers’ Skills, Knowledge and Standards Need Developing
What does the evidence tell us about the areas in which Driver Trainers need to develop?
Drawing on driving test performance, ADI and PDI results and road safety data, DVSA will examine the trends they are seeing across the profession and identify areas where greater knowledge, skills and understanding could improve training outcomes.
DVSA Update and Questions
Pauline Reeves OBE, Director of Driver Services | DVSA
Hear the latest update from DVSA on the issues affecting Driver Trainers, learners and the wider driver testing and training system. Delegates will also have the opportunity to put their questions directly to DVSA and hear the agency’s response to some of the key issues affecting the profession.
Take time to meet fellow Driver Trainers, speak with industry partners and exhibitors, discover new products and services and continue the conversations from the morning sessions.
Building The Teaching Toolkit – Workshops
Every delegate will take part in all three interactive workshops, sharing experience, discussing the issues that matter to the profession and developing practical ideas that can be taken back into everyday training.
From Test Ready to Road Ready
Jan Freeborn, Driver Trainer and Fleet Training Specialist
Is a learner who is ready to pass their driving test necessarily ready for everything they will face once they are driving alone?
This workshop explores the gap between being able to demonstrate the required standard on test day and being genuinely prepared for independent driving, including judgement, experience, confidence, risk awareness and safer decision-making.
Crafting the Best Learner Curriculum
Olivia Baldock-Ward, Head of Training and Advisory Services | DIA
What should we actually be teaching someone before we send them out onto the road alone?
This workshop explores what should form part of the ideal learner curriculum, from technical driving skills and risk awareness to independent decision-making, different road environments and preparing learners for the realities of driving after the test.
What Nobody Taught Me About Being an ADI
Sara Everett-Skinner, Helpdesk Advisor | DIA
Training to become an ADI prepares you to teach, but does it prepare you for everything that comes with actually being one?
This workshop explores the skills, knowledge and realities many instructors only discover once they are already in the job, and asks what could be done differently to better prepare and support the next generation of Driver Trainers.
Workshop Findings and Discussion
We bring everyone back together to share the key themes, ideas and challenges that have emerged from the workshops and discuss what they could mean for Driver Trainers and the wider profession.
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