HED 442s – 5 hours of credit

(On campus only syllabus)

DEVELOPING VEHICLE OPERATIONAL SKILLS :

Driver Education Laboratory Experiences

Spring Semester only

Class Meeting Times: Monday and Wednesday, 1600-1830, Safety Center, 1435 Douglas Drive, SIUC

Laboratory Times: Additional hours per week (1-4 hours) as scheduled.

 

Dale O. Ritzel, Ph.D., FAASE

Professor, Health Education

Director, Safety Center

Office: Center: 1435 Douglas Drive

Department: Pulliam 323b

Telephone: 453-2080 (Center), 453-2777 (Department), 549-1994 (Home)

e-mail: safety@siu.edu

WWW URL: http://www.siu.edu/~ritzel

 

Course Description: This course is designed to prepare students to become driver education teachers.  Provides prospective teachers with simulation, range, and on-road teaching experiences with beginning drivers.

 

Course Materials Package: Each student teacher will purchase the Course Materials Packet for HED 442s at The Printing Plant, 606 S. Illinois, Carbondale.  The Packet must be brought to class each session starting with second day of class.

 

Course Objectives: At the completion of this course the successful student teacher will:

 

1.  Relate the positive benefits and the need for driver education and traffic safety in American Society.

 

2.  Develop and display an enthusiastic and sincere personal philosophy as to the value of driver education.

 

3.  Possess the knowledge and skills to teach beginning drivers in either a high school, commercial or fleet safety setting.

 

4.  Be skilled in the various resource materials, lessons plan development, learning activities strategies, and teaching methods in classroom, on street, driving simulation, and range phases of driver education.

 

5.  Obtain practical experiences in the classroom, on street, driving simulation, and range phases of driver education.

 

Course Assignments: The following is a list of course assignments which must be completed by the designated due date.  All assignments that are turned in after the due date will lose 10 percent of their assigned value per day.

 

Please Note: All assignments are to be typed unless specified otherwise:

 

1.  Each student teacher will teach 1-2 beginning students the principles, perceptions, judgments, and decisions of safe driving by using the driving simulator and on street methods of instruction.  A student teacher will be allowed to teach on street only after demonstrating 85% proficiency on the Depue/Shannon/Ritzel Rules of the Road Test.  This test is difficult and we never have had a student teacher pass this test on the first try, so study hard and study long.  Go to the HED 302s Web site to review the Rules of the Road material.

 

2.  Each student teacher will experience teaching situations in the multiple-car driving range method of driver education.  This will be accomplished with the student teachers working with each other during class time, using their own vehicles.  This will be done during the month of April 2002.  Communication devices will be provided by the Instructor.

 

3.  Each student teacher will comprehensively develop three (3) lesson plans and teach three (3) different driving simulation lessons.  These are to be typed and enough copies made available for everyone in the class.  The lessons are to be developed as specified on the laboratory schedule and reviewed by the Instructor at least two days prior to the lesson being taught.  A final draft of the lesson plan must be submitted to the Instructor for evaluation at the start of the driving simulation lesson being taught (if a lesson plan is not provided the student teacher will not be permitted to teach the driving simulation lesson).  Essential items to be included on the lesson plans are on the Format Sheet in the Course Materials Packet.  Example copies of lesson plans are included in the Course Materials Packet.  Each of the three (3) lesson plans must be run-off (enough copies for everyone in the class plus three [3]) and turned in no later that one-week after the lesson was taught.

 

4.  Each student teacher will develop three (3) lesson plans used when teaching the on street phase of instruction with their beginning driver(s).  These lesson plans should be developed by consulting with their group peers because the group peers will be teaching the same lessons to their own students.  Out of ten (10) on street lessons, each student teacher will develop lesson plans for three (3) out of the ten (10) lessons.  The lesson plans are to be discussed with the in-car evaluator each day one is present.  Essential items to be included in the lesson plans are analyzed on the Format Sheet and the AThings to Consider@ in the Course Material Packet.  All other essential items are discussed under Objective 3 above.  A description of the specific route used in each lesson is required.  In addition, each student teacher not developing a specific lesson plan is required to provide the Instructor with a written description of their driving route for each and every on street lesson before teaching that lesson (no detailed route, no teaching that day) (the student teacher developing the lesson will also have to provide a copy of their driving route).

 

5.  Each student teacher will be comprehensively evaluated in three (3) on street teaching situations and in all driving simulation lessons taught.  Be prepared and allow time for the evaluator to discuss his/her assessment after the lesson is taught.  A video tape camera my be used for these evaluations.

 

6.  Each student teacher will develop a Anotebook@ containing lesson plans and various other driver and traffic safety education handouts.  It must have dividers for ease of use and separate of the various driver education lesson plans (driving simulation, multiple-car driving range, and on street).  This Anotebook@ is due the Friday before the final examination week (3 May 2002). 

 

Grading Scheme

Each student will be evaluated on the following items and worth the number of points indicated:

 

 

Grading Scale

675-750 points -    A

600-674 points -    B

525-599 points -    C

450-524 points -    D

below 450 points - F