Albany-Greene
Driver Education
COURSE OVERVIEW:
Welcome to our website. It is our goal to provide viewers with up to date information with regard to driver education in the greater capital district area.
Our Driver Education offers students a comprehensive, four phase program that concentrates on physical, mental, social and emotional skill training. The program consists of over 24 hours of classroom and 24 hours of on-road and simulation instruction. This program will focus on the skills needed for a student driver to become a safer, more responsible decision maker, as it relates to the highway transportation system. We hope to provide a good foundation for a lifetime of safe driving and the ability to contribute to the improvement of traffic safety in our community and the State of New York.
PREREQUISITE:
We require students to have passed their leaners permit test before first day of class. This helps to demonstrate a readiness and maturity level for this fast paced, high level skill training.
UNITS OF INSTRUCTION:
Highway Transportation System
Rules of the Road
Signs, Signals & Roadway Markings
Basic Car Control
Performing Basic Vehicle Maneuvers
Managing Risk with the SIPDE Process
Perceptive Driving Skills
Decision Making and Risk Assessment Skills
Driving in Rural Areas
Driving in Adverse Conditions
Driving In Urban Traffic
Driving on Expressways
Negotiating Intersections
Effects of Driver Condition
Alcohol, Other Drugs and Driving
Dealing With Distractions
Sharing the Road with Others
Natural Laws & Car Control
Maintaining Your Vehicle
Handling Emergencies
Insuring a Vehicle
Buying a Vehicle
STUDENT OUTCOMES:
1. Develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become safe, low risk,
responsible driver
.2. Learn how to identify, predict, decide, and execute in a manner that
develops the behavior and mental skills necessary to help manage risk.
3. Have a working overview of the driving task and skills needed to navigate
the complex highway transportation system and become a safe driver.
4. Learn how to use various strategies; SIPDE Process, the Smith System and
Zone Control Driving System, to process and apply these accepted concepts
into safe driving behaviors.*
5. Develop sound habits for searching and managing space, visibility and
traction problems.
6. Help students make sound decisions about driving-related behaviors;
controlling emotions, attitude, distractions, drowsiness, drugs, deadly driving
habits.
MAJOR LEARNING EXPERIENCES TO ACHIEVE OUTCOMES:
1. Have students classify which risk factors they, as responsible drivers,
would be able to eliminate or minimize.
2.Use in-class and simulator lab driving rehearsals to help students practice
targeting and perceptual skills.
3. Students will learn the procedures and visual check points in a
non-threatening range environment.
4. Using range, students will experience the problems associated with
space-time relationships, backing and parking situations.
5. Using multimedia presentations of community areas, students will identify
critical clues for searching, identifying, and making low risk decisions.
6. On road experiences at multiple speeds and conditions will be used to show
students the natural laws that affect their vehicles.
7.Local law enforcement and Health department will be utilized in the
classroom to discuss unique community problems, risk factors, and state/local
traffic laws and distracted and drowsy campaigns.
8. While behind the wheel, students will be taken to areas within our community
where high conflicts between other users is constant and frequent.
9. Using digital images and video of traffic scenes, students will identify
lane choices and hazard detection.
10. A final classroom test provided to our program by NYSDTSEA will be
administered to determine how well students understand traffic safety concepts
and an on road test to determine space, time, and decision making skills in
complex traffic situations will demonstrate readiness and further driving
practice. It may also provide and indication if the student is close
to being ready for road testing.
ADOPTED TEXTS AND INSTRUCTIONAL WEBSITES
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Driver Education
COURSE OVERVIEW:
Welcome to our website. It is our goal to provide viewers with up to date information with regard to driver education in the greater capital district area.
Our Driver Education offers students a comprehensive, four phase program that concentrates on physical, mental, social and emotional skill training. The program consists of over 24 hours of classroom and 24 hours of on-road and simulation instruction. This program will focus on the skills needed for a student driver to become a safer, more responsible decision maker, as it relates to the highway transportation system. We hope to provide a good foundation for a lifetime of safe driving and the ability to contribute to the improvement of traffic safety in our community and the State of New York.
PREREQUISITE:
We require students to have passed their leaners permit test before first day of class. This helps to demonstrate a readiness and maturity level for this fast paced, high level skill training.
UNITS OF INSTRUCTION:
Highway Transportation System
Rules of the Road
Signs, Signals & Roadway Markings
Basic Car Control
Performing Basic Vehicle Maneuvers
Managing Risk with the SIPDE Process
Perceptive Driving Skills
Decision Making and Risk Assessment Skills
Driving in Rural Areas
Driving in Adverse Conditions
Driving In Urban Traffic
Driving on Expressways
Negotiating Intersections
Effects of Driver Condition
Alcohol, Other Drugs and Driving
Dealing With Distractions
Sharing the Road with Others
Natural Laws & Car Control
Maintaining Your Vehicle
Handling Emergencies
Insuring a Vehicle
Buying a Vehicle
STUDENT OUTCOMES:
1. Develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become safe, low risk,
responsible driver
.2. Learn how to identify, predict, decide, and execute in a manner that
develops the behavior and mental skills necessary to help manage risk.
3. Have a working overview of the driving task and skills needed to navigate
the complex highway transportation system and become a safe driver.
4. Learn how to use various strategies; SIPDE Process, the Smith System and
Zone Control Driving System, to process and apply these accepted concepts
into safe driving behaviors.*
5. Develop sound habits for searching and managing space, visibility and
traction problems.
6. Help students make sound decisions about driving-related behaviors;
controlling emotions, attitude, distractions, drowsiness, drugs, deadly driving
habits.
MAJOR LEARNING EXPERIENCES TO ACHIEVE OUTCOMES:
1. Have students classify which risk factors they, as responsible drivers,
would be able to eliminate or minimize.
2.Use in-class and simulator lab driving rehearsals to help students practice
targeting and perceptual skills.
3. Students will learn the procedures and visual check points in a
non-threatening range environment.
4. Using range, students will experience the problems associated with
space-time relationships, backing and parking situations.
5. Using multimedia presentations of community areas, students will identify
critical clues for searching, identifying, and making low risk decisions.
6. On road experiences at multiple speeds and conditions will be used to show
students the natural laws that affect their vehicles.
7.Local law enforcement and Health department will be utilized in the
classroom to discuss unique community problems, risk factors, and state/local
traffic laws and distracted and drowsy campaigns.
8. While behind the wheel, students will be taken to areas within our community
where high conflicts between other users is constant and frequent.
9. Using digital images and video of traffic scenes, students will identify
lane choices and hazard detection.
10. A final classroom test provided to our program by NYSDTSEA will be
administered to determine how well students understand traffic safety concepts
and an on road test to determine space, time, and decision making skills in
complex traffic situations will demonstrate readiness and further driving
practice. It may also provide and indication if the student is close
to being ready for road testing.
ADOPTED TEXTS AND INSTRUCTIONAL WEBSITES
- Responsible Driving, Glencoe Publishing, 2005,
- Drive Right, Prentice-Hall Publishers, 2000
- SPIDE - Search, Identify, Predict, Decide, Execute - Mental Processing as we drive
- New York State Driver Traffic Safety Education Association materials- www.nysdtsea.org
- AAA Foundation for Public Safety - Safe Driving Materials and Videos - https://www.aaafoundation.org/
- Interactive website for testing driving reactions and decision making skills - www.nidb.org
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