This coaching tip continues our 8 part series on simple strategies for maximizing your student’s ability to learn. These tips come from a lecture by Debra Bell. The seventh simple strategy is another one that’s already a key part in our program: students learn best when they experience what they are studying; that they become fully immersed in it.
Imagine reading a book all about taking apart and reassembling the carburetor of an old car. It doesn’t mean much to you until you get your hands on a carburetor and get some experience with what it is you are studying. Imagination can take us far, but not all the way. To really understand something, we need reference experience. This is a concept that is not new to us at Driver Ed in a Box®. It’s why so much of our program is aimed at helping you with the in-vehicle practice. That time behind the wheel is where your student is getting the experience, the immersion, that allows them to fully comprehend what they read in the text about the skills of collision-free driving. Driving is something new and unfamiliar to your teenager. Until they have that experience behind the wheel, everything they read about driving is just theory to them.
Watch this video to see Patrick Barrett, the Driver Education Guru, talk more about how important practical experience is to the learning process.