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Review stage three progress
Check how your learner is going with stage three learning goals, coach tips and post-drive questions.
In this topic
Stage three goals
Stage three supervising tips
Stage three post-drive questions
Coming up in stage four: Rehearsing solo
Stage three goals
By the end of this stage, you and your learner should agree they’re able to do these tasks safely:
- Do right-hand turns.
- Use their hazard perception skills.
- Keep a safe distance from other road users in busy traffic.
- Drive on roads of all speed limits.
- Change and merge lanes.
- Choose safe gaps when entering traffic.
- Slow down smoothly.
- Drive through busy intersections.
- Control their speed.
- Plan their own drives.
- Introduce navigation and music on their phone while driving safely. No interaction with a phone/device whilst driving.
Stage three supervising tips
Keep these things in mind when you take your learner on drives:
- Talk with them about how they’re going at the end of each drive to check on their progress.
- Be aware of how your role as a supervising driver changes in this stage from more to less active.
- Help plan drives with them but let your learner take the lead.
- Make the time to help your learner practise on multi-lane roads.
- Plan drives with your learner in the day and night.
- Support your learner to keep a safe distance from other road users.
- Help your learner to practise a safe approach when merging, overtaking, changing lanes and driving through intersections and roundabouts.
- Help your learner practise everyday driving scenarios such as: going to school, going to the shops and so on.
- Review their logged hours to make sure they’re getting a broad range of driving experience.
Stage three post drive questions
In stage three, it’s a good idea to get your learner to start reflecting more on their driving behaviours.
Use these questions to help talk to your learner after a drive:
- How do your driving decisions impact on others?
- What do you find challenging when you drive near other road users?
- What driving tasks do you need to practise more?
- How do you feel driving at night?
- Can you talk me through your process when you approach busy intersections and roundabouts?
- How do you feel driving on multi-lane roads?
- What hazards have you come across and how did you respond?
- Can you talk through your process for merging, changing lanes and overtaking?
- Are there any road or lane markings or signs you’re not sure about?
Coming up in stage four: rehearsing solo
Stage four is when your learner will start to practise driving as if they’re driving on their own with you at their side.
They’ll practise in all environments from quiet to challenging areas.