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Second Tier of Instructor Training |
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To Prepare: In-Car Instructor to teach Modules 6-10 of the ten in-car modules of the National Institute’s Traffic Safety Education Curriculum.
Qualifications: Teacher candidate must meet current standards. Teacher must have completed Tier One and successfully completed at least 6 months of work experience teaching in-vehicle modules one-five.
Time Structure: This will be a 45-hour course, conducted in no less than 4 weeks.
The teacher candidate will: - Acquire risk-prevention driving habits
- Demonstrate space-management skills
- Learn how to use and teach the Key Behavioral Patterns for the following five modules:
Course Content and Key Behavioral Patterns:
The teacher candidate must demonstrate knowledge and successful in-vehicle performance as a driver and as a teacher of the following: Module 6 Key Behavioral Patterns - See red lights as closed zones
- Adjust speed to arrive into green lights
- Search intersection 45 degrees
- Left turn at green light - 4 checks
- Using ABC’s of Zone Control effectively
- Evaluate need for lane changing
- Move by lane positions
- Time arrival into open zones
- Key steps for backing into space
- Side position
- Forward position
- 45 degree target
- Back into pivot point
- When car is straight, straighten tires
- Back to rear reference
Module 7 Key Behavioral Patterns - Respond to stop/yield signs
- Respond to traffic signals
- Respond to traffic signs - regulatory/warning
- See warning signs as cue- check rear / LOS POT / escape path
- Respond to pavement markings
- Demonstrate right of way laws
- See and respond to curves in target areas
- Evaluate traction envelope
- Evaluate left / right zones
- Get best lane position
- Look into curves
- Use brake/accelerator effectively
- Evaluate POT’s at hill crests
- Hill crest lane position
- Keep four seconds of time
- Adjust Closure Rate to front vehicle
- Use practice commentary effectively
Module 8 Key Behavioral Patterns - Identify Fixed Side Zone Changes
- Identify Moving Side Zone Changes
- Time arrival into open zone
- Get best speed control
- Check rear zone before leaving traffic flow
- Use of signals
- Parking on a hill
- Putting car in motion while on an upgrade
- Parallel parking - key steps
- Rear zone control
- Stop even with space - go forward
- Rear pivot point
- Check left/front corner swing
- Back to 45 degree angle
- Creep and time clearance
- Straighten tires - Center car
Module 9 Key Behavioral Patterns - Night driving
- Vehicle readiness
- Driver readiness
- Environmental problems
- Look beyond headlights
- Use of high/low beams
- Look for pedestrian high-risk locations
- Being Passed
- Tailgater type
- Select passing location
- Adjust time/space
- Passing:
- Why pass?
- Following time
- Selection of location
- Search to target area (at least 20 sec.)
- Acceleration
- Search, vehicle passing
- Return to lane
- Responding to problems
- Brake failure
- Engine stalls
- Coping with Distractions
Module 10 Key Behavioral Patterns - Limited Access:
- Slow speed on ramp
- Search for gap
- Blind spot check
- Precision entry
- Solve problems 12 seconds before exit
- Determine rear zone status
- Test brakes before exiting
- Evaluation of 10 Empowering Driver Risk-Prevention Habits
- Establish Driver-Vehicle Readiness
- Keep the Car in Balance
- See Path Before Putting the Car in Motion
- Use Reference Points
- Do the LOS-POT Dance with your Eyes and Brain
- Turn Decisions into Zone Controlled Actions
- Search Left, Front, Right Zones before Intersections
- Get Rear Zone Control
- Get Control with a Vehicle in Front
- Interact Courteously with Others
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