Driving Instructor Personal Service Workers

The goals identified in curricula and defined learning outcomes.

The body of rules, procedures and regulations related to health and safety measures intended to prevent accidents or incidents in transportation.

Know the mechanical components used in vehicles and identify and resolve potential malfunctions.

Understand road traffic laws and the rules of the road.

Identify the learning struggles and successes of students. Select teaching and learning strategies that support students' individual learning needs and goals.

Employ various approaches, learning styles, and channels to instruct students, such as communicating content in terms they can understand, organising talking points for clarity, and repeating arguments when necessary. Use …

Support and coach students in their work, give learners practical support and encouragement.

Understand and anticipate the performance and behaviour of a vehicle. Comprehend concepts such as lateral stability, acceleration, and braking distance.

Diagnose issues with vehicles and assess the efforts and costs required to resolve them.

Be able to drive vehicles; have the approapriate type of driving license according to the type of motor vehicle used.

Stimulate students to appreciate their own achievements and actions to nurture confidence and educational growth.

Keep the vehicle clean and in roadworthy condition. Ensure regular maintenance of the vehicle and provide valid official documents such as licenses and permits where appropriate.

Ensure that the vehicle is equipped with accessibility equipment such as passenger lift, seat belts, restraining harnesses, and wheelchair clamps or webbing straps.

Provide founded feedback through both criticism and praise in a respectful, clear, and consistent manner. Highlight achievements as well as mistakes and set up methods of formative assessment to evaluate …

Ensure all students falling under an instructor or other person's supervision are safe and accounted for. Follow safety precautions in the learning situation.

Observe lights on the road, road conditions, nearby traffic, and prescribed speed limits to ensure safety. Interpret traffic signals and act accordingly.

Keep up with new research, regulations, and other significant changes, labour market related or otherwise, occurring within the field of specialisation.

Follow up on students' learning progress and assess their achievements and needs.

Park motorised vehicles without compromising the integrity of vehicles and safety of people.

Drive defensively to maximise road safety and save time, money, and lives; anticipate the actions of other road users.

Take students' personal backgrounds into consideration when teaching, showing empathy and respect.

Instruct students in the practice of driving a vehicle such as a bus, taxi, truck, motorcycle or tractor safely, practice mechanical operation on roads with little traffic, and promote an …

Processes and principles related to the customer, client, service user and to personal services; these may include procedures to evaluate customer's or service user's satisfaction.

The way energy forces interact and affect components in motor vehicles such as cars, buses, invalid carriages and other motorised vehicles.

Instruction targeted at adult students, both in a recreational and in an academic context, for self-improvement purposes, or to better equip the students for the labour market.

The functioning of specific car equipment such as how to operate and handle the clutch, throttle, lighting, instrumentation, transmission and the brakes.

Know the different engine components, and their operation and maintenance. Understand when repairs and replacement should be undertaken.

Denomination of the different elements and equipment of fishing vessels.

The learning disorders some students face in an academic context, especially Specific Learning Difficulties such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, and concentration deficit disorders.

Theoretical and practical applications of the science studying the action of displacements and forces on physical bodies to the development of machinery and mechanical devices.

The mechanics involved in boats and ships. Understand the technicalities and participate in discussions over related topics in order to solve problems related to the mechanics.

Know the characteristics, maintenance requirements and operating procedures of various kinds of engines such as gas, diesel, electrical, and engines with steam propulsion plants.

Detailed knowledge of the different physical components of the vessel. Provide maintenance and care to ensure optimal operations.

Know a large variety of maritime vessels and their characteristics and specifications. Use that knowledge to ensure that all security, technical, and maintenance measures are taken into account in their …

Types of car engines in road and racing cars, inclusing those with emerging technologies like Hybrids and electric motors, and how they work.

Field of information which distinguishes rental agency classification systems, containing types and classes of vehicles and their functioning and components.

Know and understand characteristics of fuels and lubricants, and the fuel loading specifications of various types of vessels.

Gain theoretical and practical knowledge of safety equipment used in vessels, including devices such as lifeboats, life rings, splash doors and fire doors, sprinkler systems, etc. Operate equipment during emergency …

Thoroughly understand the principles of vessel stability; follow safety requirements during loading and unloading of cargo.

The different types of driver's licenses, the procedures for obtaining them, and which vehicles may be driven holding each type. Any special conditions or responsibilities tied to a driver's license.

The components, regulations, and properties of theoretical and practical driving tests.

The various components making up a vessel electrical system and the interplay between these components.

Adhere to standards of hygiene and safety established by respective authorities.

Evaluate the students' (academic) progress, achievements, course knowledge and skills through assignments, tests, and examinations. Diagnose their needs and track their progress, strengths, and weaknesses. Formulate a summative statement of …

Present to others examples of your experience, skills, and competences that are appropriate to specific learning content to help students in their learning.

Drive vehicles in urban areas. Interpret and understand transit signs in a city, the regulation of traffic, and the related common automobility agreements in an urban area.

Drive, manoeuvre and park tractors, trailers and lorries on roads, around tight corners, and in parking spaces.

Efficiently operate common communication systems used in emergencies, such as base station mobile transmitters and receivers, portable transmitters and receivers, repeaters, cellular phones, pagers, automated vehicle locators, and satellite phones …

Use GPS Systems.

Ensure that the necessary materials for teaching a class, such as visual aids, are prepared, up-to-date, and present in the instruction space.

Read maps effectively.

Utilise water navigation devices, e.g. compass or sextant, or navigational aids such as lighthouses or buoys, radar, satellite, and computer systems, in order to navigate vessels on waterways. Work with …

Compose work-related reports that support effective relationship management and a high standard of documentation and record keeping. Write and present results and conclusions in a clear and intelligible way so …

Stay up-to-date with latest trends in car technology and anticipate change in the field.

Ensure that a vessel carries up to date and adequate charts and appropriate nautical documents. Lead the process of preparing the voyage report, the vessel passage plan, daily position reports, …

Drive a vehicle operated under an automatic, or self-shifting, transmission system safely and according to regulations.

Drive two-wheeled vehicles such as bicycles and motorcycles for the performance of different tasks relating to the transportation of goods and passengers.

Inspect vessels to ensure their effective and safe operation. Keep the vessel and its equipment in conformance to regulations.

Drive a bus in reverse and make turns.

Use an additional instructor's brake, gas or clutch pedal, placed at the passenger seat in a vehicle, in order to overrule the driver's pedals and take control.

Use didactic ways to educate on road traffic laws, on the appropriate driving behaviour, on authorisation requirements for vehicles and trailers, on the operation of different types of vehicles, and …

Use your memory of geographic surroundings and detail in navigation.