Coaching Novice Drivers.

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to develop teacher candidates' foundational understanding of theoretical and philosophical principles of coaching, as well as practical coaching skills, as they apply to the driving task. The course emphasizes how specific coaching and training techniques can be used to safely and effectively scaffold novice drivers from a classroom learning context to a behind-the-wheel learning context, and ultimately to an independent real world driving context. The metacognitive skills required for self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-development will be stressed. Graduate credit requirements are described in the course syllabus. If this class is taken at the 500 level, it is a graduate course and expectations for student performance are at an advanced level. Evaluation of course requirements is more rigorous than at the lower division section of this course.