If you are aged between 17 and 20 and live in the UK and currently don’t have your full driving licence then the pain over the last few month will have been very real. Not only have you had to cope with your loss of
Back To Work
Most instructors and students were extremely happy to restart driving lessons in July. We are all living in a new world and driving lessons have not been exempt from the new precautions we are all expected to be taking. As an instructor I am acutely
To Prepare Theory Test Tricks & Tips
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Health of a driving instructor during the lockdown
Apart from key worker training no driving instructor has been allowed to teach during the coronavirus pandemic. All in all that means the majority of the 43000 qualified ADIs across the country have not been working since mid March. Although we haven’t as yet been
Lockdown Learning
Living through lockdown and being unable to teach due to government restrictions and current guidelines on social distancing, has led me to reflect on the different aspects of my teaching practice. I have been teaching one to one instrumental lessons in schools for around ten
Have you forgotten how to drive?
We have all been locked down for over six weeks so far due to the coronavirus outbreak. I have received many texts from worried students of mine asking if they have forgotten how to drive. There is a lot of anxiety surrounding this as of
Common Driving Faults Part 2
In my first blog concerning common driving faults whilst learning to drive I discussed how to steer and how to avoid stalling. In this part of the blog I will discuss changing gear and stopping alongside the kerb. Fundamentally I need to express the importance
Common Driving Faults and How To Correct Them
Learning to drive can be quite a daunting experience. Often during the first lesson a student will turn up thinking it is easy to drive but it soon becomes apparent that it’s not as easy as they thought. The feeling that if their idiot brother
Roundabouts
From my experience as a driving instructor the mere mention of a roundabouts lesson (or even a single roundabout) strikes fear into the heart of even the most confident learner driver. Why is this the case? After all, a learner has been around thousands of
Diary of a Driving Instructor coping with the Coronavirus
The coronavirus has effected every aspect of life but how has the last couple of weeks changed the life of a driving instructor? With the worldwide crisis there have been daily changes in what we can and cant do, both personally and with our businesses.
