1. Essential Instructional Skills for Professional Driver Trainers
UNIT 6: Practice Teaching

2. Unit Objectives: You’ll be able to:
Develop and present your 3-minute overview
Complete a brief lesson plan for your teaching demonstration
Present your teaching lesson
Employ the 4-step teaching/learning process in your presentation
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3. Motivation: 3-minute Overview
Introduces the teacher/instructor
Relates to prior learning
States the main topics
States the purpose of the learning (i.e., benefits of the lesson)
States the objectives of the lesson
Gives the time-frame of the lesson
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4. Motivation: Learning Environment
Seating arrangement
Table space
Climate control (lighting, ventilation, etc.)
Wall charts and other permanent displays
Whiteboard/flip-chart arrangement
Projector/screen
Preview audio-visual support
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5. Presentation: Your Lesson Plan
Provides the content to be taught
Identifies visuals to be shown
Provides instructor notes/prompts
Provides points of emphasis
Provides sample questions to be asked
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6. Presentation: Guidelines
Use simple language
Be familiar with the lesson
Use eye contact
Use humor but not jokes
Ask questions often
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7. Presentation: Guidelines cont’d
Stay in control
Use body language, but avoid distracting mannerisms
Be yourself
Use visual aids
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8. Application: Guidelines
Questions to be asked
Learning activities
Teacher
Learner
Skill activities
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9. Evaluation: Guidelines
Use oral questions
Directly related to the stated objective of the current lesson
Student-led demonstrations
Formal tests
Homework
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