Oh dear is my comment to this, along came CPD and the devoted few followed the path, however CPD surely has to be something you desire not something that you have to do, now we have coaching, the same devoted few but this time more acts muscling in to sell a course, or a piece of paper with a hefty price tag.
Brilliant, why not try and enhance your delivery with a client, and dedication should always be rewarded, however, doesn't that mean you are unhappy with the style you have already developed, or is it follow the crowd? Those who have embraced client centered learning, which isn't coaching will have noticed subtle enhancements from traditional teaching styles, but does that mean the method you use is no good?
Research tells us that leading the novice is more effective than abandoning the client to their own devices, they become frustrated and disheartened, a good q & a with an intermediate learner can develop into excellent results, but do you need a qualification for this, or do you need a coach of your own?
A personal coach can deliver amazing results, but the follow the crowd teacher is unlikely to, however when teaching a learner driver do you need such in depth strategies, can you over think the end result, because the original coaching studies were to see if coaching can reduce road death in the under 25's, the results when using a bigger group than the sterile HERMES group found the outcome to be inconclusive.
Interestingly there are a lot of learners landing on my doorstep complaining that their ADI keeps asking them what they want to do on their lesson and they are looking for more structure, so has the hype gone too far, should the instructor not just carry on with what they are good at and had found to be good practise, or will the face of driving instruction continue to spiral into an unrecognisable jumble of discontent.
I sure we all remember our driving lessons, the ADI started somewhere, but sometimes it's easy to fall into the trap of being self-righteous, With the changes to the entry system changing and the standards of the ADI expected to be more closely monitored surely it's time for learning to drive to be recognised as a professional entity as it is in many EU countries, as we begin to settle into the 2015 target date and the dramatic realignment of learning to drive coupled with privatisation.
It's time to leave coaching to the coaches and move into CCL, once the understanding of this has taken place. My letter from the DSA pointed out that regardless of their chapter on coaching they considered pure coaching to be a sledge hammer to crack a nut, as a qualified life coach and driving instructor I am inclined to agree.
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