ADI Course Information

To become a driving instructor you will need:

•To hold a full UK or EU car driving license & to have held this license for four out of the past six years.
•To be a fit and proper person to have your name entered into the ADI register. Motoring offences still in force are taken into account when assessing your suitability to be entered in the ADI Register. To pass 3 ADI exams required for qualification - ADI Part 1, ADI Part 2 & ADI Part 3
•To not have been disqualified at any time during the last 4 years.
•A clean license is obviously best, 3 points isn't likely to be a problem, 5 points and you should contact us before going any further.
•To be able to fund your driving instructor training, which is likely to be in the region of £2000 - £2500 if starting from scratch.

Instructor Course Outline

Part 1 Training:
Your Part 1 training is based upon the set texts suggested and reccomended by DSA. You will follow this suggested text and use the DVD,CDROMs and resource material provided by Solo(uk) and the Driving Standards Agency. This will ensure complete and efficient progress throughout the part 1 area of the qualification process. At any point during your adi training, help is available via email or telephone with your trainer - 24/7.

Part 2 Training:
Your Part 2 training will all be undertaken on a 1 to 1 basis. During your 2 hour sessions you will be given the skills you will need to become a professional driver. This is not simply a slightly harder L TEST" but is a very advanced driving test displaying excellent control, showing impecable judgement and anticipation of hazards.

At all times during your driver training you will be expected to understand what you are doing it, why you are doing it, and how you are doing it. This high concious level of driving will allow help you to explain how an expert driver attains and keeps their driving to such a high level. During your training you will be expected to practice all of the techniques you aquire as often as possible. You can either train in one of our cars or your own. Your practice will include you driving on your own in your own vehicle being as critical as possible ensuring you drive at this level all the time and not simply when you need to. Far to many PDI's think they can "turn it on" when the exam comes around, which will usually and up in being unsuccessful.

Part 3 Training:
The Part 3 training is comprehensive, and the syllabus we have developed goes above and beyond that of many other training companies:

Section 1: Preparation

•Legal responsibilities and moral obligations - codes of conduct.
•From phone enquiry to professional introductions.
•Eyesight checks and driving licences (provisional and foreign).
•Learning styles: Think, Research, Observe, Try.
•Recapping previous experience with a new customer - course planning.
•Lesson planning: Structure and timings - ROMPS.
•Lesson planning: Recapping previous lessons.
•Lesson planning: Objectives - SMART.
•Lesson planning: Main points.
•Lesson planning: Practice - Route planning as seen by a novice driver.
•Lesson planning: Summary - strengths and areas to work on.

 

Section 2: Instructional Techniques

•Levels of Instruction - Guided/Prompted/Independent
•Guided: Talk through - head it off at the pass
•Prompted: Use of suggestions, questions and hints
•Independent: And swinging the pendulum back
•Positive and Retrospective instruction
•Control of the lesson
•Communication
•Use of Q & A
•Feedback/Encouragement - motivation and plateaus
•Instructor's use of controls
•Instructor's characteristics - Attitude and approach
•Core Competencies - Fault Identification
•Core Competencies - Fault Analysis
•Core Competencies - Remedial Action
•Core Competencies - Combining Skill/Knowledge/Attitude
•Mock tests, and test day itself

 

Section 3: Exam Preparation

•The Part 3 Exam - How it works
•The Phases - Beginner/Part trained/Trained/Full licence holder
•Briefings - Need/Should/Could be useful information
•Beginner - Controls
•Beginner - Move off and stop
•Part trained - Reverse into a limited opening
•Part trained - Turn in the road
•Part trained - Mirrors and the emergency stop
•Part trained/Trained - Approach juntions left/right
•Part trained/Trained - Emerging at t-junctions
•Part trained/Trained/FLH - Dealing with crossroads
•Part trained/Trained/FLH - Meet/Cross/Overtake
•Part trained/Trained/FLH - Pedestrian crossings and signals
•Trained/FLH - Progress/Hesitancy/Normal position
•Trained/FLH - Reverse parking
•Part 3 Mock Examination

 

Section 4: Running the Business

•Covering the syllabus - using a track record
•Pass Plus, refresher and beyond
•The trainee licence
•Self assessing your performance
•Being self employed
•Getting work
•Independent or Franchise?
•The car, the instructor
•Record keeping
•Continuing Professional Development
•The check test
All sessions / topics of the course will be checked and monitored with progress reports that you your trainer will sign. You will receive a grading for many of them which will indicate how well you are progressing at all times.

Breakdown of course prices can be seen ..........Here

At Solo(uk) our success is driven by your success. We pride ourselves on the quality and high standards of the training we give to you.

Following discussions between the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) and representatives from the driver training industry it was agreed that both instructors’ and the public’s best interests would be served by a single register or directory of suitably qualified and inspected trainers and establishments.

The ORDIT register has therefore been compiled which contains a list of establishments, set out in post code order, that following inspection by DSA have satisfied the inspection criteria under the voluntary scheme of minimum training standards

View the ORDIT Register