Teaching Qualifications

Teaching Qualifications

Teaching qualifications that could be helpful or relevant to an ADI could include:

City and Guilds Teaching Adult Learners

This is a qualification mainly aimed at people wanting to deliver classroom lessons, but even if you do not plan to teach in a classroom it can help to get a better understanding of the principles of how people learn; teaching techniques; and lesson planning.

RoSPA
National Diploma in Advanced Driving Instruction

This is a qualification that will include:

·	Classroom Teaching and Presentation Skills

·	Assessment of your Driving

·	Instructional Commentary Driving as a Teaching Technique

·	In Car Teaching & Coaching Techniques

This qualification will also gain you entry to the DSA Register of Fleet Driver Trainers.

Driving Standards Agency Register of
Fleet Driver Trainers

At the moment this is a voluntary register of ADIs who deliver training to company car drivers.

Entry to this register is either by completing a DSA approved training course
eg. RoSPA National Diploma in Advanced Driving Instruction
or by passing the DSA qualifying examinations, which follow a similar format to ADI qualification:

·	Part 1 Theory

·	Part 2 Driving Ability

·	Part 3 Instructional Ability

These tests differ from the ADI qualifying tests, and are aimed at assessing relevant abilities for training experienced drivers.