GP Driver & Instructor Training
Practical ADI Standards Check training designed to help you understand your current performance, develop your instructional skills and prepare confidently for your DVSA Standards Check.
Work one-to-one with an ORDIT registered trainer on Lesson Planning, Risk Management and Teaching & Learning Strategies.
Professional ADI Development
The Standards Check assesses your continued ability to provide effective driving instruction. However, preparing for it shouldn't simply involve trying to put on the perfect lesson for an examiner.
Our training focuses on helping you understand what is happening during a real lesson, recognise your pupil's needs and adapt your instruction appropriately.
Rather than delivering generic Standards Check training, we'll identify your existing strengths and the areas where further development could make the biggest difference.
Understand the Assessment
The DVSA assesses 17 areas of competence across three main categories. Understanding how these areas work together is an important part of developing effective, client-centred instruction.
Area One
The lesson should have clear goals that reflect the pupil's needs and ability. The structure should support those goals while remaining flexible enough to change when necessary.
Training helps you recognise whether the lesson remains appropriate as the pupil's performance develops.
Area Two
Effective risk management requires you to recognise developing situations early and decide when and how much support your pupil needs.
The aim is to maintain safety while still creating opportunities for the pupil to think, make decisions and learn from the experience.
Area Three
Effective teaching means selecting an approach appropriate to the pupil rather than relying on one method throughout the lesson.
That can involve explanation, demonstration, questioning, coaching, feedback and reflection depending on what the pupil needs.
Practical Development
Knowing the 17 competencies is useful. Being able to demonstrate them naturally while managing a real pupil and a changing driving environment is what matters.
That's why our Standards Check preparation can include observation of real lessons, practical development and detailed feedback.
We'll look at how you plan the lesson, manage risk, communicate with your pupil and adapt when the situation changes.
The feedback then focuses on practical changes you can apply to your everyday lessons rather than simply learning phrases to use when an examiner is present.
A Simple Principle
Good instruction isn't about waiting for something to go wrong and then discussing it afterwards.
Developing the ability to recognise situations earlier gives you more opportunity to manage risk appropriately while still allowing the pupil to learn.
Know What to Expect
A DVSA examiner observes you delivering a normal client-centred driving lesson to one of your pupils. The Standards Check lasts around 45 minutes, with the pupil driving for approximately 40 minutes.
At the start, you'll discuss the lesson goals and risk management with your pupil. The lesson should then develop from their needs and ability.
The examiner observes how effectively you plan the lesson, manage risk and use appropriate teaching and learning strategies while your pupil is driving.
Your pupil should be given an opportunity to reflect on their performance. Afterwards, the examiner will discuss your performance and provide your result.
Understanding Your Result
0–30
The performance does not meet the required standard.
31–42
You remain on the ADI register.
43–51
A high standard of instruction has been demonstrated.
Regardless of the overall score, you will be unsuccessful if you score 7 or less in Risk Management or the examiner has to stop the lesson because you have put yourself, your pupil or another person in danger.
Who We Help
You don't have to wait until you're struggling to benefit from instructor development.
Individual Development
The same skills assessed during a Standards Check are relevant to the lessons you deliver every day.
As a result, the aim of training isn't to create a performance specifically for the examiner. It's to help you improve the quality of your normal instruction so that good practice becomes part of the way you teach.
Frequently Asked Questions
The DVSA assesses 17 competencies across Lesson Planning, Risk Management and Teaching & Learning Strategies.
A total score between 31 and 42 results in Grade B. A score between 43 and 51 results in Grade A.
Yes. A score of 7 or less in the Risk Management category results in an unsuccessful Standards Check regardless of your overall score.
Yes. Practical lesson observation can be used to identify strengths and areas for development before your Standards Check.
Yes. Training can focus on the areas highlighted by your previous result and on developing the skills needed to improve your normal lesson delivery.
No. ADIs can also use Standards Check training as professional development to review and improve their everyday instructional skills.
Develop Your Instruction
Whether your Standards Check is approaching or you simply want an independent review of your instruction, contact GP Driver & Instructor Training to discuss the support you need.
