Your Drivers Pack

The ‘Drivers Pack’ is essential to the course.  

Inside the pack is the proposed syllabus, a progress monitoring record, a template for reflecting on driving sessions, and the actual notes that are taken on the sessions themselves. 

How much attention anyone wants to pay to that pack I guess is their choice.  I’m not sure when you are learning something new why you would actually choose not to refer to the key learning points at any point; that seems to me to be a very worthwhile few minutes spent.

So when a session finishes, you take your Drivers Pack with you, and in doing so you have a key reference to what has been done in-car, including suggested videos to watch to reinforce the learning.  

When I next see you, you need to bring that pack as it is the starting reference point to the next session.  I will refer to the key learning points and pitch some questions on them, I will look at the progress sheet to see what subjects have been covered and when, and what stage you are at on them.  We will then discuss some objectives for the session – that will be pitched precisely for your needs.

If you don’t bring the Drivers Pack, oh dear, now that causes problems.  Inevitably we spend longer reviewing what was done the last time I saw you – I will be relying on an accurate account from you with regards to the key learning points.  I have no means of seeing your progress to date and it all starts to get a little amateurish in it’s approach..... not a nice place to be.

If on the other hand you continue to not bring the Drivers Pack to your driving sessions then it truly starts to get very murky.  It all goes very wishy washy as the foundations of the course have been taken away – we are truly into the territory of driving lessons ‘on the hoof’ – communication, trust and accountability between pupil and trainer is rock bottom and I would argue that the programme of learning is then on shaky ground.  The efficiency of the learning experience is very much reduced which ultimately means it takes longer to learn and costs more.  That consequence will displease you,  and you then go elsewhere, where you start the process off again – and no-one ‘wins’ from that experience.