• Driver’s Education Course Schedule

    Standard Schedule

     

    Session

    Day &

    Date

    Schedule: While this is our tentative plan, it may change.  Be sure to build in our final makeup days in case of schedule changes.

    Content: Students who take a little longer to complete work should pick it up before leaving class and have it completed by the start of the next day.

    Homework:

    Day 1

     

    Unit 1: Novice Driver Responsibilities & Licensing System

    HO: Syllabus, Stud. Info., Textbooks, Driver Manual, Website Review, Portfolio, folders, Remind signup, COMPLETE WAIVER for BTW Training

    Mention: PennDot App, State Farm Driver Feedback App

    Write ½ page, Portfolio Artifact 1

    Organ Donor Presentation – need for parent signature

    Unit 1 Introduction

    *Parent Meeting after class*

    Complete WS: 1 & 2

     

    Portfolios DUE DATE: Final Day of Clas

     

    Get parent signatures on syllabus & organ donor forms!

    Day 2

     

    Unit 1 work on WS’s 1 & 2

    Review IUP Slide Sessions 1A & 1B

    Unit 1 Review & Test - peer graded

    Portfolio work

    Worksheets 1 &2

    Portfolios

    Day 3

     

    Unit 2 – Basic Operation of a Vehicle

    Unit 2 Introduction and handouts

    Unit 2 work on WS’s 3, 4, 5

    Portfolio

    ** Show student Bus & RoW videos**

    DUE: Syllabus & Organ Donor form signed by a parent

    WS’s: 3, 4, 5

    Portfolios

    Day 4

     

    Unit 2 Review and Peer Grade

    Review IUP Slide Sessions 2

    Unit 2 Test

    Unit 3: Space Management System

    Unit 3 Introduction and handouts

    WS’s: 6, 7, 8

     

    Portfolios

    Day 5

     

    Unit 3 work on WS’s: 6, 7, 8

    Unit 3 Review and Peer Grade

    Unit 3 Test

    Portfolios

    CHANGE BLINDNESS INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE

    SHOW RIGHT OF WAY & BUS SAFETY VIDEOS

     

    Portfolios

    Day 6

     

    Trooper Joe Dunsmore: “Survival 101”

    Review IUP Slide Session 4

    Worksheets 9 & 10

    Lesson Plan Activities

    Portfolios

    Day 7

     

    Unit 4: Basic Maneuvering Tasks

    Unit 4 Introduction & Test

    Sort Card Activities (Change Tire & Caffeine)

    Review IUP Slide Session 3

    Vehicle Maintenance – Do Changing Tires Card Activity

    Tires/changing; Battery care and jump starts; Fluids; Pre-Entry, Pre-ignition, & ignition procedures; Parallel & curb parking, Moving in/out of traffic

    *HANDOUT TROOPER QUESTION FORMS TO STUDENT

    Worksheets 9 & 10

     

    Portfolios

    Day 8

     

    Right of Way: student safety videos & Portfolio work

    Unit 5: Risk Reducing Strategies for High Speed, Multi-lane Expressways

    Unit 5 work on WS’s: 9, 10

    Introduce Lesson Plan Activity

    Portfolios

    Begin work on Unit 5: Chs 9 & 10

     

    Day 9

     

    Unit 5 preparation of lesson plans, groups of 4 students

    Chapter 9      or       Chapter 10      or      PSA Poster Activity

    #1 188-191              #1 208-212

    #2 192-195              #2 213-214

    #3 196-199              #3 215-216

    #4 200-205              #4 217-219

                                     #5 220-223

    Lesson Plan Activity

    Portfolios

    Day 10

     

    Unit 5

    Complete student lessons plans on either chapter 9 or 10  OR

    Distracted Driving Poster Projects

    Poster Activity
    Portfolios

    Day 11

     

    Unit 6: Personal Factors Influencing Operator Performance

    Unit 6 Introduction and handouts

    After done with notes, students complete caffeine card activity

    Unit 6 work on WS’s: 11 & 18

    Portfolios

     

    Worksheets 11 & 18

     

    Portfolios

    Day 12

     

    Finish Unit 6 Review and Peer Grade

    Unit 6 Test

    *Begin DWD activity

    Worksheets 11 & 18

    Portfolios

    Day 13

     

    Unit 7: Environmental Conditions that Effect Safe Vehicle Operation.

    Review IUP Slide Session 5

    Unit 7 Introduction, Chapter 12, Review and Test

    Worksheets: 12

    Portfolios

    Day 14

     

    Finish Unit 7, review and test

     

    Unit 8 Vehicle Functions, Malfunctions, & Collision Reporting

    Introduction and handouts for Chapters 13, 14, 15

    Unit 8 work on WS’s: 13, 14, 15

    All Traffic Surveys Must Be Complete

     

     

    Worksheets: 13, 14, 15

     

     

    Day 15

     

    Finish Unit 8: Review and grading

     

    PRI Life After Death radio broadcast

     

    Day 16

     

    Review of Unit 9, no homework for this unit

    Night for Portfolio work

    *Class Tally of 3 Traffic Surveys. 

     

    Day 17

     

    LAST DAY OF CLASS:  Turn in textbooks

    Map Activity

    Youtube: TAC video, International PSA’s

    PRI Life After Death radio broadcast,

    Videos: Driving Tactics 1, 2, 3

    Portfolios Due

     

    We always schedule 2 makeup days for weather, etc.

     

     

    Make Up Day – please reserve date in case of emergency