Today we continue our series on the 5 Parts of a Successful Lesson, and today’s part is Part 4: Review the New Learning. You’ve practiced and practiced the new technique, and now you’re in the parking lot, or driving home, and it’s time to talk to your student about all that practice.
When you review the lesson with your teen, you want to talk about everything you introduced and everything your teen practiced. You want to bring your teen’s focus back to the purpose of the lesson. You and your teen practiced a new technique today, and understanding the purpose of that technique, how it will help keep your teen out of collisions, will help your teen remember what to do.
Your teen may already have learned the purpose of the technique before practicing it, but now your teen has some experience to connect the lesson to, and that takes those neural connections deeper. Most of us do much better remembering information when we can connect them to experiences. Your helen willetts pokies Pokies teen susanna reid pokies demi moore pokies kelita smith pokies just Pokies experienced some driving practice, and reviewing now will help them connect the theoretical learning (what they read in the book or watched in the video) to the practical learning (driving practice).
So, how do you review? You ask questions. Ask your teen why she turned when she did. Ask her why she needs to pick a Point of No Return, or if she noticed the benefit of picking a Point of No Return. Ask your teen where she thinks she needs improvement, or what she thinks she did particularly well today. You, of course, can let her know where you think she needs improvement and what she did well afterwards, but the point of asking her all these questions is to get your teen to get comfortable being introspective about their driving abilities. A good teacher can get their students to get good at reviewing themselves.
Watch this video to see Patrick Barrett, the Driver Education Guru, explain more about the 4th part of a successful lesson.