As reviewed in the adiNEWs

Review of the Highway Code Training Aid published by ADiTA

By Lynne Barrie MA (Driver Training)

You need good visual training aids to be a professional ADI. They keep your pupil’s and your knowledge up to date and are a god way to retain the pupil’s interest. This one from ADiTA is meant to be an “interactive accompaniment” to the Highway Code. The new Highway Code itself is even longer than before and many pupils never read through the previous version. Although we want all our pupils to read the Highway Code, some of them see it as just too daunting. This means you need to dedicate some lesson time to teaching the key lines, signs and road marking that are regularly seen on the roads. This new visual aid will give you the material to do that.

It’s presented in car-friendly A5 size, in a bright yellow, sturdy ring binder. There are 60 pages printed on good quality glossy card. The whole thing feels as if it would stand up well to in-car use. Most pages contain large versions of road signs or original road diagrams for use as flash cards. You could flick through the book and find pages on which to ask your pupils questions. For example you could turn to the page showing a road diagram with Stop and Give Way signs and ask ‘Why would you need extra observations at a junction like this?’ It’s a concise folder of all the markings and signs that it’s essential for your pupils to know. It would help you do this in two or three ten minute sessions during different lessons for a pupil. It’s a good alternative to trying to read the Highway Code, where the sign images are much smaller, in the tuition vehicle. On the pages showing just road signs, the meaning of the signs isn’t shown, but there is an index at the back that gives the ‘answers’, should you be experiencing an ADI mental block! There are also 2 useful pages on speed limits and stopping distances.

The cost is £18 plus £4 p&p, details are at www.adita.co.uk . It’s a good and useful training aid, but it is just for this one particular purpose of making sure the pupil has taken on board the necessary Highway Code information on road signs and markings. I’m keeping a copy in my car!