New member from North Somerset
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 11:57 pm
Hello everyone,
I'm just posting here to introduce myself as a new member of Advanced Driving UK, and am pleased to be a part of what appears to be a very worthwhile and supportive online community. I am keenly interested in road safety issues from an educational perspective, as I am currently involved in teaching a pioneering new BTEC qualification in Driving and Driver Education, which we are piloting in several schools situated within the local area. As my background is primarily in education (I originally trained as an English teacher!), I am keen to see a far greater emphasis on road safety within the school curriculum, with a particular focus on the high-risk 17-24 age group who it seems are seldom encouraged to consider further training, let alone view the process of learning to drive as a lifelong learning continuum!
That's my professional interest in the forum - to discover, promote and share educational best practice in delivering effective road safety programmes. However, my personal interest is that I am always keen to further my own skills development as a road safety practitioner, and am a current IAM member, PDI and IAM observer-in-training. I am continually looking for ways to develop my driving skills, and actively seek out new opportunities to do so. Finally, as I strongly believe in the merits of further driver training for all licence holders, I also take an active role in our local IAM group as Press and Publicity Officer, and endeavour to promote the merits of Advanced Driving courses to an ever-sceptical audience!
I hope that's enough to give you an idea of why I joined AD-UK, and I look forward to contributing to the forums in any way I can.
JTizzle.
I'm just posting here to introduce myself as a new member of Advanced Driving UK, and am pleased to be a part of what appears to be a very worthwhile and supportive online community. I am keenly interested in road safety issues from an educational perspective, as I am currently involved in teaching a pioneering new BTEC qualification in Driving and Driver Education, which we are piloting in several schools situated within the local area. As my background is primarily in education (I originally trained as an English teacher!), I am keen to see a far greater emphasis on road safety within the school curriculum, with a particular focus on the high-risk 17-24 age group who it seems are seldom encouraged to consider further training, let alone view the process of learning to drive as a lifelong learning continuum!
That's my professional interest in the forum - to discover, promote and share educational best practice in delivering effective road safety programmes. However, my personal interest is that I am always keen to further my own skills development as a road safety practitioner, and am a current IAM member, PDI and IAM observer-in-training. I am continually looking for ways to develop my driving skills, and actively seek out new opportunities to do so. Finally, as I strongly believe in the merits of further driver training for all licence holders, I also take an active role in our local IAM group as Press and Publicity Officer, and endeavour to promote the merits of Advanced Driving courses to an ever-sceptical audience!
I hope that's enough to give you an idea of why I joined AD-UK, and I look forward to contributing to the forums in any way I can.
JTizzle.