8 Lesson Planning - Objectives - SMART
Unit 8: Lesson Planning - Objectives - SMART
Research Material:
The Driving Instructor’s Handbook
Coaching for Performance - Chapter 7 - Goal Setting
Effective and inspiring goal setting can really help motivate customers. They also set good boundaries for you – meaning that you don’t try to achieve too much and find yourself falling short, or aiming too low and wasting time.
Discussion Points:
Specific - Clear definition of what the goal is
Measurable - How will achievement of the goal be defined?
Once a skill has been performed under guidance, prompting, or independently?
Agreed - This ensures that both parties are working towards a goal which they both feel is achievable. Your customer must feel they are a participant, and not just a passenger.
Realistic - The dangers of setting unrealistic goals.
Timed - Ensuring that goals are not open ended.
P.U.R.E.
Positively stated - negative goals will often have negative effects
Understood - this is needed before agreement can be gained
Relevant - putting current goals into the wider context of driving
Ethical - positively encouraging good attitudes
C.L.E.A.R.
Challenging - keep motivation high, but without being unrealistic
Legal - with reference to the Highway Code if necessary
Environmentally sound - with reference to eco-driving
Appropriate - fitting it to the customers experience and skills
Recorded - with reference to the track record
Exercises:
Write SMART, PURE and CLEAR objectives for the following lessons:
Controls Lesson - first lesson with a new customer who has never driven.
Turn in the Road Lesson - with a customer who can drive competently but has never manoeuvred
System of Control lesson - re-enforcing good use of the MSPSL system for a customer approaching test standard
You will role-play these objectives with your trainer.
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