Teach Your Learner - Private Driving Practice Book
- Guide your child like a pro with a structured approach that mirrors professional driving lessons
- Learn together with clarity using the unique dual-page system for parents and their child, with clear guidance and visuals
- Focus your practice on what matters with concise teaching points, common mistakes, and practical driving test tips
- Save time and money by using structured private practice to complement professional lessons and accelerate progress
- Make learning safe, simple, and effective - perfect for in-car practice or home study
Description
A Professional Approach to Private Driving Practice
Teach Your Learner is a purpose-built guide for parents and family members who want to confidently support learner drivers in the UK.
Written by a Grade A, DVSA-approved Driving Instructor Trainer, the book mirrors the structure and standards used by Qualified Driving Instructors.
This ensures that private practice is safe, correct, and fully aligned with professional lessons, allowing parents and learners to work together with clarity and confidence while developing real-world driving skills.
A Unique Parent and Learner Page System
What truly sets Teach Your Learner apart is its innovative dual-page format.
Each lesson is split into a detailed Parent (Teacher) page and a focused Learner page.
The Parent pages provide concise yet thorough guidance, key teaching points, and insider instructor tips, while the Learner pages use clear visuals, colour-coded bullet points, common mistakes, and driving test tips to reinforce understanding.
This structure ensures both teacher and learner know exactly what is being taught, why it matters, and how to achieve each goal together.
Saving Time, Money, and Stress
DVSA guidance suggests learners typically need 40-50 hours of professional instruction alongside 20-25 hours of private practice to reach test standard.
Drawing on years of experience, Teach Your Learner demonstrates how structured private practice alongside lessons can help learners progress faster, often reducing the number of paid lessons required.
Costing less than a single driving lesson, it offers exceptional value while making teaching and learning to drive simpler, safer, and more effective - perfect for both home study and in-car use.
What's Inside?
- Beginner
- Cockpit Drill
- Foot Controls
- Hand Controls
- Using the Mirrors (MSM routine)
- Blind Spots
- Moving Off
- Pulling Over
- Signalling
- Safe Clearances
- Awareness, Anticipation & Planning
- Meeting other Traffic / Obstructions
- Junctions
- Approaching a side road to turn left
- Approaching a side road to turn right
- Approaching T-Junctions to turn left
- Approaching T-Junctions to turn right
- Emerging at T-Junctions
- Crossroads - Approaching on a main road
- Crossroads - Emerging from a side road
- Crossroads - Traffic light controlled
- Roundabouts - Mini
- Roundabouts - Standard
- Roundabouts - Spiral / Gyratory
- On The Road
- Making Progress / Safe Speeds
- Positioning
- Overtaking
- Pedestrian Crossings - Zebra
- Pedestrian Crossings - Traffic Light controlled
- Dual Carriageways - Slip Roads
- Dual Carriageways - Side Roads, turning right
- Dual Carriageways - Side Roads, turning left
- Satnav / independent Driving
- Emergency Stop
- Manoeuvres
- Pull up on the right and reverse
- Parallel Park
- Bay Park - Reverse in, drive out forwards
- Bay Park - Drive in forwards, reverse out
- Extra Info
- Turning Around
- Show Me / Tell Me Questions
- Eco Driving
- Parking Techniques - Parallel Park
- Parking Techniques - Bay Park Reverse
- Parking Techniques - Bay Park Forwards
- Driving Test
- What happens on test day
- The driving test marking sheet
- Marking sheet guidance notes
- Driving Test Report explained
- Pupil Progress Record
- Useful contact details