How to evaluate whether you are getting the most benefit from a driving lesson:

Driving Lessons should always begin with an interactive discussion to establish your state of learning and explore any issues that may influence the driving session. Following this would be a discussion as to what topics you would like to cover and use of Q & A to establish your theory knowledge of the subject to be covered. A risk plan would then be devised as to who is going to take responsibility for what actions: For example – is the instructor going to talk you through the entire topic or are you going to share the responsibility for your actions and have the instructor coach you with well guided questions. It extremely important to understand this aspect to avoid over or under instruction. After a short period of practice, a brief stop to evaluate what has been learnt before deciding on the next phase of the lesson.it could be you both agree that further practice would be beneficial or perhaps the plan would be to move to the next stage and attempt a spell of independent driving.

It is vital that you are always involved in the planning process to gain the maximum benefit from your driving lesson.

Not all driving instructors are adapting this type of client centred learning as many are yet to take the up-to-date training required and this is often reflected in the price they will charge for their Driving lessons.

if you find that its normal procedure during your lessons to simply drive around for one to two hours with no clear objective of what you are trying to achieve, then you are probably wasting both your money and time. All driving lessons should have a clear objective that can be matched at the end of the lesson and you should be able to clearly identify whether you reached that objective and if not, what the reasons were and how you are going to overcome any obstacles.