Professor, Health Education

Director, Safety Center

Office: Center: 1435 Douglas Drive, SIUC

Department: Pulliam 323b

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

email: safety@siu.edu

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

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 on street and driving simulation phases of driver education.

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

Roles and Responsibilities of Master Teacher working with Students in HED 442s

This information was developed to help Driver Education Master Teachers whom will work with students enrolled in HED 442s. The basic role of the Master Teacher is to supervise, guide, and evaluate the assigned student teacher in order to assist with the development of her/his driver education teaching skills.

Requirements of Effective Master Teacher

Minimum of five (5) years of successful driver education teaching experience.
Fully certified or endorsed in driver education in the state where currently teaching.
Is recommended by the student wanting to work with the Master Teacher and is approved by the instructor of HED 442s.
Knows the standards and curriculum of driver education in the state where she/he teaches.
Keeps abreast of new driver education knowledge and procedures, new driver education teaching techniques, and uses knowledge of procedures in driver education teaching.
Is willing to work extra hours to accommodate the HED 442s students in their teaching experiences.
The Master driver education teacher who agrees to work with HED 442s students must send to the instructor of HED 442s an email message (safety@siu.edu) indicating his/her willingness to work with the HED 442s students, to provide evaluations of HED 442s students’ driver education teaching abilities, and providing a statement relating to items 1-5 above. The Master driver education teacher must also send a copy of his/her resume or curriculum vitae to the instructor (safety@siu.edu) for his final approval (the instructor does have final approval to whom you work with in teaching classroom driver education or teaching laboratory driver education).

Preparing for HED 442s Students

The time and care that the Master Teacher spends in preparation for the HED 442s student’s arrival will pay great dividends in effectively providing a good learning atmosphere for the students and communicating the expectations for their performance.

The Master Teacher must obtain copies of materials for the HED 442s student, such as school handouts, driver education textbooks, etc.

Prepare a draft of a tentative timetable of experiences for the HED 442s student for the entire period of their experiences (observation, teaching small groups, whole group instruction for one lesson, whole group instruction for multiple days, etc.). A copy of the tentative schedule MUST be provided to the instructor of HED 442s and must be approved by the instructor of HED 442s before the student is allowed to start the observation/teaching experiences with the Master Teacher.

Identify units of work for which the HED 442s student will assume responsibility.

Supervising a HED 442s student

The Master Teacher provides the most insightful supervision of the HED 442s student’s behavior. In addition to general observation and feedback regarding the HED 442s student’s behavior, it is expected that the Master Teacher will consistently use clinical supervision techniques which involves observing and recording the HED 442s student’s performance, providing specific feedback, and engaging in collaborative conference discussions in order to enhance growth in the HED 442s student’s driver education teaching skills. In order to facilitate this, the Master Teacher may wish to keep a journal of the HED 442s student’s performance and should require that the HED 442s student also keep a daily journal. A copy of this journal MUST be provided to the instructor of HED 442.

The Master Teacher should conference with the HED 442s student and should provide oral and/or written feedback daily. Conference topics will depend upon the needs of the HED 442s student and the laboratory situation.

Observation of the Master Teacher’s Laboratory Situation by the HED 442s Student

Most of the HED 442s student’s activities during the first few days will consist of observation to learn about the Master Teacher’s teaching style and about the students in laboratory instruction. This will also be the beginning of learning driver education knowledge from the Master Teacher.

Increasing the HED 442s Student’s Responsibility

The level of responsibility for teaching should increase as the Master Teacher feels that the HED 442s student is ready. Remember that some HED 442s students are “brand new” at teaching, while others may have had some previous teaching experiences.

The Requirements of the Student enrolled in HED 442s

Buy required course materials for HED 442s at The Printing Plant, 606 S. Illinois Avenue, Carbondale, IL 62901 (1.618.529.3115). This must be done by the first Wednesday in the semester enrolled. The student needs to indicate to the instructor of HED 442s that they have purchased this material.

Person in HED 442s will have to make initial arrangements with a Driver Education Master Teacher at a public high school to teach both driving simulation and on-street. Teacher’s name, address, telephone number, FAX number, and email address must be provided to instructor of HED 442s. The instructor of HED 442s will make final decision as to acceptability of Driver Education Master Teacher’s participation in working with HED 442s student in off-campus situation before the student can start any activity. The student can not start the learning/teaching activities with the Master Teacher until the first day of the semester enrolled.

If the public school where arrangement have made with a Master Teacher has a driving simulation system as part of its laboratory program in driver education, then the HED 442s student must teach three (3) to four (4) different driving simulation lessons during the semester that they are with the Master Teacher. The HED 442s must observe all other driving simulation lessons taught. The HED 442s student will develop comprehensive lesson plans for the 3-4 driving simulation lessons. A draft copy of the lesson plan must be shared with and approved by the Master Teacher at least three (3) days before the scheduled time to teach the driving simulation lesson. A final copy of the lesson plan must be signed by the Master Teacher and submitted to the instructor of HED 442s within one week of teaching the lesson plan. The instructor of HED 442s has the right to reject any lesson plan that does not meet the requirements of a lesson plan as specified in the course materials. In case of rejection, the HED 442s student must make any and all appropriate corrections.

If the public school where the Master Teacher is located does not have a driving simulation system as a part of their laboratory program in driver education, then the HED 442s student must meet with the instructor of HED 442s on 3-5 different dates as determined by the instructor of HED 442s during the semester in order to learn about teaching driving simulation and the driving simulation equipment used at the Safety Center, must review on their own time all 11 driving simulation laserdiscs that are used at the Safety Center, and then teach 3-4 driving simulation lessons. The student will develop comprehensive lesson plans for 3-4 of the 11 driving simulation lessons available at the Safety Center. A draft copy of the lesson plans must be shared with the instructor of HED 442s one week before the actual teaching of the lessons. A copy of each lesson plan developed will be provided others in the course (whom are enrolled in an ILP format during the semester enrolled) and two (2) copies provided for the instructor of HED 442s. The format and sample lesson plans are located in the course material packet.

Teach five (5) beginning students how to drive at a local high school from the first day of their instruction to the last day (it is the responsibility of the HED 442s student to show to the instructor of HED 4442s, and signed by the Master Teacher, that the HED 442s student provided each of the five beginning drivers with at least 6 hours of laboratory (6 hours on on-street or appropriate hours of driving simulation and remainder hours in on-street instruction). After having a plan on the total number of lessons to be taught to each student on-street, the student will develop comprehensive lesson plans for 5 different lessons taught with these five (5) beginning drivers. An outline of the other lessons taught must be developed. The HED 442s student and the instructor of HED 442s will agree as to the lesson plans developed after the HED 442s student and the Master Teacher reaches such agreement. The student will use the guidelines of the other lessons taught with the beginning drivers as are identified in the HED 442s course materials book. The lesson plans are to be discussed with the Master Teacher in the local high school each day one is present. The HED 442s does not have to develop a lesson plan for all lessons taught to the five (5) beginning drivers, however, as stated earlier, they must have at least an outline of the other lessons. 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. A description of the specific route used in each lesson (where lesson plans are required and where they are not required) is required. Copies of the routes must also be approved by the Master Teacher prior for all lesson taught on street. This route should be shared with the Master Teacher at the local high school and will be submitted to your HED 442s instructor. The instructor of HED 442s has the right to reject any lesson plan that does not meet the requirements of a lesson plan as specified in the course materials. In case of rejection, the HED 442s student must make any and all appropriate corrections.

Each student teacher will be comprehensively evaluated in two (2) on street teaching situations for each of the five (5) taught by the Master Teacher at the local high school and in all driving simulation lessons taught (by the instructor of HED 442s or the Master Teacher if the local school does have a driving simulation system as a part of their laboratory program). Be prepared and allow time for the Master Teacher to discuss his/her assessment after the lesson is taught. The Master Teacher should send his/her assessment to the instructor of HED 442s as soon as possible. The instructor of HED 442s will provide a copy of a driving simulation teaching evaluation form and an on-street teaching evaluation form to the Master Teacher. After reviewing the each teaching session with the HED 442s student, the Master Teacher must submit the completed evaluation forms to the instructor of HED 442s as soon as possible after the teaching/evaluation date.

Each student teacher will develop a Anotebook@ containing lesson plans and various other driver and traffic safety education handouts pertaining to driver education laboratory instruction. It must have dividers for ease of use and separate of the various driver education lesson plans (driving simulation and on street). This Anotebook@ is due the Friday before the final examination week at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Grading Scheme

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

Assignments	1^st eval.	2^nd eval.	3^rd eval.	4^th eval.	5^th eval.	Total
Driving Simulation Lesson Plans	50 points	50 points	50 points	50 points		200 points
Driving Simulation Teaching	(67.5 points) 50 points	(67.5 points) 50 points	(67.5 points) 50 points	(67.5 points) 50 points		(270 points) 200 points
On Street Lesson Plans	50 points	50 points	50 points	50 points	50 points	250 points
On Street Teaching (2 evaluations for each of the 5 students taught by HED 442s student)	50 points 50 points	50 points 50 points	50 points 50 points	50 points 50 points	50 points 50 points	500 points
Total						1150 points

Updated 1 January 2005