Welcome, Jaydon. I really look forward to helping you not only prepare for your restricted driving test but to help you to become a safe and confident driver.
Lesson #1 – Tuesday 1st November 3.30pm – 5pm
It was a pleasure to meet you Jaydon. Excellent driving and thank you for having such a positive attitude to learning. So, to pick out what potentially you should work on is as follows:
How low can you go? Think about on the day of your test how anything can happen in front of you, so by practicing how low you can stay in any gear without changing means you can use a low-speed technique that means you can crawl from the give way triangle in second gear so you can make the judgement to proceed or change down to first gear without too much trouble. Likewise, once you manoeuvre through the intersection keep to a walk pace until you steer back to where you want the vehicle, then begin to move away increasing speed. The other reason why this is important is to avoid the coasting to an intersection when you depress the clutch and keeping to depressed means you have essentially lost control of the vehicle so moving down the gears and remaining in gear until the last moment if stopping required is something to practise.
We also discussed the necessity for head checks, so if you can practice looking over your shoulder quickly to gather information but to hold your steering as well as bring that information forward immediately to what is happening in front of you. Think of anytime your bonnet needs to change direction is when you need to carry out a head check either for cyclists or cars trying to pop in front of you in a merge flush median scenario.
If you can practice your three-point turn, parallel parking manoeuvres and U turns as these are the main reason people panic in a test due to the technical aspect.
I hope the above helps, and I would suggest another session or two in which we look at carrying out pre-test assessment drives covering motorway, rural and town driving. You are in a good space to go ahead and book your restricted driving test in early to mid-December and I will help you fine tune in preparation for same.
This is a record of your progress and must be kept by us on your behalf for 12 months and when added to your lesson plans forms the overall training plan.
Student Name
Lesson Date
Lesson Plan #
Subjects Covered
Seat adjustment
Instruments & controls
Pre-drive checks
Signals
Moving off (straight)
Stopping
Directional control
Moving of (at angle)
Basic gear changing
Speed control
Moving off (uphill)
Moving off (downhill)
Parking on a hill
Gears on hills
Head checks
Stopping times
2 & 4 second rule
Lane driving
12-6-3 Second scans
Hazard awareness
Decision techniques
Amber lights
Priority rules
Blocking rule
Gap selection
Roundabouts
Decision rechecks
Vehicle dynamics
Cornering techniques
Open road driving
Motorway driving
Low-speed control
Three-point turn
“U” turns
Reversing (straight)
Reversing (left corner)
Reversing (driveway)
Parallel parking
Angle parking
Night driving (optional)
Pre-test practice
Developing a training plan with you is where we begin once you have your theory learner test behind you.
Your training plan will be a structured and logical sequence of progressive lesson plans with the provision for the review of your progress as we go.
Each lesson plan will have its own TRAINING OBJECTIVE which will outline what you will achieve as a result of the session along with the STANDARD to which you need to perform the task and the conditions under which the performance will be assessed along with the RESOURCES that will need to be supplied.
How we deliver our knowledge to you is through three main methods
Controlled Practice – This is where your tutor will carry out the manoeuvre with a full verbal description as we go a couple of times so you have a chance to observe and feel comfortable trying it yourself.
Prompted Practice – Once you are comfortable, you can then try the manoeuvre whilst your tutor prompts you with a word here and there as a reminder as you concentrate on carrying out your manoeuvre
Transferred Responsibility – Yay – this is the bit you get to do it yourself and practice.
The following behaviors will not be tolerated by either the tutor or the student or any staff member of ALL TERRAIN DRIVING ACADEMY
Sharon is very experienced when it comes to driver education. An NZTA approved driving instructor, a defensive driving instructor in STREETALK and a member of the New Zealand Institute of Driving Educators and a fully qualified assessor carrying out driver assessments for various NZ government organisations. Sharon is an off road driver trainer too, so you are in experience and patient hands.
You can contact Sharon on 021 029 28023 ( a text is always better) if you have any questions.
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