Lesson Plans
Driving Lesson Plans
There are no specific lesson plans or rules on how a lesson should be structured when it comes to teaching someone to drive. Instead you should tailor your lesson plans around the clients individual needs, thus achieving Client Centred Learning.
Recap on the previous lesson,
The learning objectives / targets for the lesson ahead.
Driving to a relevant location for lesson, if required, at early stages this might be by the instructor.
Discussion any questions or queries that the student may have.
Guided and prompted practise of the current topic, some of this may be shown as a diagram or from a visual guide, demonstrated then practised.
To incorporate the above in the general driving alongside the other areas already covered.
To question mistakes so that you the student can work out why you might have missed something. Self reflection and self discipline makes an independent driver.
At the end of the lesson we will recap & set a plan or target for the next lesson.
What is the structure of a Driving Lesson with 4front Driving School?
When you teach a course to your students, your training must be individually structured to meet your clients own personal needs and requirements. Here at 4front Driving School this means that the lessons are structured differently for each individual student as everyone is different and will work at their own pace.
As lessons progress and your students move forward to the next level, the structure of each lesson is tailored around them - 'the learner'. We never use a one lesson fits all approach. We change the pace and teaching technique to suite the level of ability, knowledge and skill.
As a general guide, the usual lesson format for an average lesson would look something like this:
A course of driving lessons will be structured on a weekly basis to best suit each individual learner's level of ability.
With each new pupil, these needs will always be different. People are unique and everyone learns at a different pace. Where one pupil may excel at certain driving tasks and yet struggle with others, other learners will struggle in completely different areas, and excel in different skill. Some students find that it all starts coming together after a few attempts and thereafter it comes natural to them.
However learning involves effort from both the instructor and from the student.
Progression takes place best when the learner is attentive and actively attempts to consolidate the new material for each new topic.
We will suggest free Apps and guides to help our students reflect back on the lessons so that the information that they have learnt starts to make sense and you can easily refer to it and reflect back on it with ease when you return to the following lesson.
The App to reflect back on lessons is
Here is a list of the areas that you need to cover when teaching a student to learn to drive which could be adapted into individual lesson plans or grouped together to form a focus of a lesson.
- Vehicle safety checks
- Car controls and instruments
- Safe road positioning
- Anticipation and planning
- Use of speed
- Other traffic
- Left
- Right
- Left
- Right
- Cross roads,
- Multi-lane,
- Road markings,
- Traffic light controlled junctions,
- Box junctions
- Lanes,
- Left,
- Right,
- Straight on,
- Multi lane
- Mini Roundabouts,
- Double Mini Roundabouts,
- Traffic Light controlled Roundabouts
- Satnav use
- Following directions / signs
Moving off and stopping safely
Turning into a new road
More complex Junctions
Progress, avoiding hesitancy, clearance
Confidence driving on faster roads, A roads etc,
Independent Driving
Driving test preparation
Your lessons plans can be adapted and developed from resources such as the ones we recommend or the resources that you compile or put together. Recommended resources...
