# Presentation: 498317

## Slide 1

## Greetings from Idaho!

**Boise**

**DC**

**Greetings from Idaho!**

**Notes:**
Hello, and thank you 

## Idaho’s program is ALIVE

- October 28, 2003

**Idaho’s program is ****ALIVE**

**Idaho ****survived**** ****the 1980’s!**

## Slide 4

## Presentation Overview

** ****Teacher training and curriculum  ****	****improvements**
**  ****Driver education laws**
**  ****Program structure**
**  ****Idaho’s strengths and ****	**** ****	**** ****	****weaknesses**
**	****My recommendations to improve ****	****driver education and training**
**	**

## Idaho is a rural state

**Idaho is a rural state**
**1.3 million people**
**$17,841 per capita**
**Constitution requires annual balanced budget**
**Economic challenges**

## 479 Miles

**479 Miles**

**305 Miles**

## During 2002

## 94% total road mileage 

- 94% total road mileage
- is classifed as
-  rural roadway

## Idaho’s fatality rate is consistently higher than the U.S. fatality rate

**Idaho’s fatality rate is consistently higher than the U.S. fatality rate**

## States are left on their own to establish, or not establish, content and delivery standards.

**CURRICULUM IMPROVEMENT**

_**Without National Standards**_

## Retired in 1995

**Retired in 1995**

**CURRICULUM IMPROVEMENT**

## Existing and new teachers were updated and trained using:

***Zone Control***** Curriculum, by the National Institute for Driver Behavior (NIDB)**
**ADTSEA’s and the NIDB standards for in-car performance**

**CURRICULUM IMPROVEMENT**

## Idaho’s Curriculum Guide Development

## And Even More Blah

**Blah**

**Blah**

**And Even More Blah**

**Blah**

## CURRICULUM IMPROVEMENT

**Idaho teachers have improved their classroom instruction:**
**	****Replacing lecture/video format**
**	****With activities that engage students – and makes ****	****learning fun**

_**CURRICULUM IMPROVEMENT**_

## Slide 17

## Slide 18

## 	Essential Knowledge and Skills to be included in the curriculum.

_**Public School Rules**_
**	****Essential Knowledge and Skills to be included in the curriculum.**
**	**

**CURRICULUM IMPROVEMENT**

## Topic 7.   Performing Basic Maneuvers. 

**Topic 7.   Performing Basic Maneuvers****. **
**The student understands the risk prevention procedures leading to good habits for starting the vehicle, entering and leaving roadways, steering wheel control, acceleration control, braking control, performing right and left turns, and maneuvering in reverse. **
**The student is expected to describe and demonstrate:**
**•****	****the pre-drive and starting tasks;**
**	****the four (4) steering wheel control techniques and when each is used;**
**•****	****procedures for entering and leaving the roadway;**
**•****	****acceleration control;**
**•****	****controlled, threshold, and trail braking control;**
**•****	****procedures for a left and right precision turn from a stopped and **
**	****moving position; and**
**•****	****procedures for backing straight and while turning.**

- Idaho
- Teen Driver Education and Training
- Essential Knowledge and Skills

## Commercial Driving Schools

**Are not required to meet any minimum state standard for passing or failing teen drivers.**
**	**

## Recommendation

**Recommendation**

## Idaho’s Driver Education Program established in 1963

**PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW**

**Full-time traffic safety professional in the Department of Education**

## 1963 - Driver Education was offered during the school day 

**Today it is primarily offered before and after school and during the summer.**
**	**

**PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW**

## 	1963 Standards

**	****30 hours classroom**
**	****6 hours behind the wheel**
**	****6 hours observation**
**	****6 weeks (42 days)**
**   ****Still the standard today!**

**PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW**

## New Regulations

_**Adopted this Year**_
**Summer classes can be conducted in 30 days.**

**PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW**

## Quote:

**Quote:**

***Dr. Allan Williams, IIHS  2001***

## States are not motivated to improve driver education without a national effort directing that change.

## Recommendation

***I believe we must treat driver education and training as a national priority by establishing national standards and support for driver education and training.***

**Recommendation**

## Created in 1988

- Alternative choice to public schools
- Youthful drivers must receive
- 30 hours classroom
- 6 hours BTW
- 6 hours observations
- 6 weeks instruction
- Standards are different

**COMMERCIAL SCHOOL LAW**

## Since 1995

_**Since 1995**_
- Commercial schools have grown 37%
- From 13 to 35 schools
- Student enrollment increased 59%

## Program Information

**Funding for the state’s driver education program comes from driver licensing fees**
**	****	********	****Support for the program **
**	****	********	****State reimburses ****	****	****	****	****public schools**

## Public Schools

**Average cost per student:  ****$224.00**

**Average fee charged:  ****$77.40**

**Average instructor hourly rate:  ****$15.93**

**Average state reimbursement:  ****$106.00**

**Reimbursed up to $110 per Student**

_**Public Schools**_

## Commercial school fees range from $199 to $395*

**Commercial school fees range from $199 to $395***
*******Average fee unknown**

**Program Information**

## Cost for Driver Education have increased

**1963****	****	****	****  2003**

**Cost for Driver Education have increased**
**Fixed budgets =**

**New cars**

**Updated textbooks**

**Classroom technology**

## Increasing public school reimbursement would require changing legislation.

**	****Not a popular request ****	****during economic ****	****challenges.**

**Program Information**

## Program Information

**  ****400 ****Public school ****	****	****teachers**
**    ****69**** Commercial school ****	****teachers**

## Program Information

**	****86% of the eligible students**
**12,800 public schools**
**	****73% of the students**
**  ****4,700 commercial schools**
**27% of the students**

**Program Information**

_**Fiscal Year 2003**_

## Program Information

** ****Only ****1**** public school     ****	****	****teacher ****	****is full-time ****	****	****	****	****driver education.**

**Program Information**

## Program Information

**Driver Education has less than desirable schedules: **
**	****6am to 9pm or later**
**Fatigued students and teachers**
**Not an environment        ****	****   ****	****conducive for learning**

**Program Information**

## Recommendation

***	******I believe to  improve the quality and delivery of driver education, driver education needs to be put back into the schools as a school-based course of instruction***

**Recommendation**

## Driver Licensing

** ****	****License at age 15 by ****	****	****	****completing driver education**
**	****4 months practice**
**	****50 hours (10 at night)**
**	****Supports essential mobility ****	****for youths**

**Driver Licensing**

## Driver Licensing

**If we don’t know what a youthful driver should learn, how can we know what to test?**

**Driver Licensing**

## Driver Licensing

**Driver licensing tests should be tightly linked to driver licensing skills assessment.**

**Driver Licensing**

## Recommendation

***The AAMVA should establish standards for youthful driver testing for states’ use.***

**Recommendation**

## Different Teacher 

_**Training Standards**_

**Teacher Qualifications**

## 	Valid teaching certificate with a 	driver education endorsement

**	****Valid teaching certificate with a ****	****driver education endorsement**
**Endorsement requires 4 semester credits**
**All other endorsements require 20 or more credits**
**	****Training is inadequate**

## 	8 Semester Credits 

**	****8 Semester Credits **
**	****Teaching related**
**	****4 Semester Credits **
**	****Driver Education Teacher ****	****Training**
**	****Training is inadequate to ****	****prepare a commercial driving ****	****school teacher**

## Commercial schools can contract with a public school and replace the public school teacher.

**Commercial School Teacher Requirements**

** ****Commercial school teachers do ****	****not have to meet the higher ****	****standards required of a public ****	****school teacher.**

## Idaho’s rural environment makes it difficult to obtain required coursework.

**	****Home correspondence ****	****can be completed for ****	****teacher certification.**

**Teacher Training**

## Recommendation

*We need more diverse opportunities to obtain training without sacrificing quality.*

**Recommendation**

## Idaho’s Strengths

_**PROGRAM REVIEWS**_
**Public and Commercial Schools**
**Observations during classroom and in-car instruction**
**Identify strengths and excellence**
**One-on-one feedback**
**Reinforce new technology and    training methods**
**Comprehensive report**

## 	I believe every state should 

*	**I believe every state should *
*	**have a required program for audits and assessment for *
*	**public and commercial driving schools.*

**Recommendation**

## Idaho’s Strengths

**New Rules this year include:**
**Adoption of essential knowledge & skills**
**Achieve 80% overall to pass DE**
**Teachers must complete 15 hours Professional Development every 2 years**
**Concurrent and integrated class/btw**

**Idaho’s Strengths**

## Idaho’s Strengths

**Policies for parental involvement**
**Lesson plans required**
**New teachers must pass a knowledge test (80%) and the state’s licensing skills test (7 penalty points or less)**
**BTW teachers complete CDL physical**
**	****	****New rules give support where it’s ****	****needed:  standards for teachers, ****	****administrators and students**

**Idaho’s Strengths**

## Idaho’s Strengths

**Available through Idaho’s three universities **
**	****	****30 - 40 trained each year**
**Idaho uses resources from ADTSEA and from experts such as Mottola, Kline and Harvey.**

**Idaho’s Strengths**

## State funds provide financial support for workshops and conferences.

**For Public and Commercial School Teachers**
**State funds provide financial support for workshops and conferences.**

**Idaho’s Strengths**

## Zone Control

**Zone Control**

## 8-9 Regional Workshops or a Conference Conducted Every Year

**8-9 Regional Workshops or a Conference Conducted Every Year**

**Since 2000, 310 teachers and administrators have participated in workshops and conferences**

**Public schools substitute teacher wages paid**

**Free lodging/meals**

**Earn one semester credit or CEU**

**Free curriculum materials provided**

## Workshops focus on best practices and training techniques.

**Workshops focus on best practices and training techniques.**

**Teachers also have fun while learning.**

## Idaho’s Strengths

**Idaho’s Strengths**

## Recommendation

***I believe continuing education  focusing on instruction should ***
***be required of every driver education and training teacher.***

**Recommendation**

## Recommendation

**We need to support teachers and administrators with extensive and affordable regional conferences and workshops so they can keep their knowledge and skills on the cutting edge.**

**Recommendation**

## Idaho’s Strengths

**Raised the eligible age to enroll in driver education from age 14 to 14 1⁄2 **
**Parental partnerships**

**Idaho’s Strengths**

_**GRADUATED DRIVER LICENSING (GDL)**_

## Idaho’s Strengths

**15 year old driver collisions dropped ****77%**
**15 year old licenses reduced ****54%**
**16 year old collisions reduced ****20%**
**16 year old licenses reduced ****26%**
**16 year old fatal and serious injury crash involvement rate dropped from ****2.3 to 1.3**

**Idaho’s Strengths**

## Practice Guide

_**Practice Guide**_
**Drive Objectives**
**Good Driving Habits**
**Common Errors to Coach**
**Easy to follow diagrams**

## Idaho’s Strengths

_***Road to Skilled Driving Practice Guide***_
**Over 53,000 given at no cost to public and commercial school teachers to distribute.**
**This winter we’ll conduct a study to learn how effectively the guide is being used by parents, students and teachers.**

**Idaho’s Strengths**

## Idaho’s Weakness

_**Commercial Schools Accountability**_
**Some have not complied with commercial school standards and state laws. **
**Legal process to bring them into compliance requires legal support from the state.**

## Some commercial schools have successfully delayed indefinitely or avoided consequences of their actions and continue to operate.

**Idaho’s Weakness**

## Idaho’s Weakness

**	****Driver education steering committee ****	****developed proposed rules to raise the ****	****standards for the teen driver education ****	****and training program.**
**	****Intent was to have the same teen driver standards for public and commercial school programs.**
**	****Commercial schools successfully ****	****lobbied to have the proposed ****	****commercial school rules withdrawn.**

**Idaho’s Weakness**

## Idaho’s Weakness

**    **_**Commercial School Standards**_
**	****Efforts underway to again draft new ****	****rules.**
**	****Commercial schools have been ****	****seeking changes to current statutes ****	****on how they are regulated.**
**	****State’s interest is the education and ****	****training of teen drivers and their ****	****teachers that supports development ****	****of reduced risk driving behaviors.**

## Recommendation

**I believe we need national standards for the content and delivery of driver education and training by public and commercial driving schools.**

**Recommendation**

## Slide 73

## The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

***The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.***

**Quote:**

***Albert Einstein***

## The Miracle did not survive

**Major stakeholders recognized a need to improve youthful driver performance through educational efforts.  It was hoped the powerful alliance would make the difference.**

**The Miracle did not survive**

## Transportation Safety for better communication and cooperation 

**Transportation Safety for better communication and cooperation **
**	****E****ngineering**
**E****nforcement**
**E****ducation**
**+    ****E****mergency Medical ****	****	****Services**

## Education

_**Driver Education Research**_

**E****ducation**

**E****ngineering**

**E****nforcement**

**E****mergency Medical Services**

**E****ducation**

## Is driver education worthwhile?

**	****Research study after research study ****	****has stated ****incorrectly that the ****	****principle goal of driver education is ****	****to reduce crashes.**
**	****Why has driver education been****	****measured differently than any other ****	****standard for fatalities?**

## In its current state, the definition of what driver education is expected to accomplish is not realistic.

**In its current state, the definition of what driver education is expected to accomplish is not realistic.**

## Recommendation

**I believe we need a realistic measurement of what a quality driver education program should be. **

**Recommendation**

## When and what should we teach?

## Quote:

***To be successful, driver education must start before the age of licensure and last throughout the driving years.  There should be training standards developed, and resources made available to prepare, market and maintain programs and materials.***
***	******	******	******	***

**Mike Smith, NHTSA 2001**

## Recommendation

**I believe risk management education and training needs to be an on-going, integrated public school K-12 program.  **
**We need standards and **
**resources to make it happen. **

**Recommendation**

## Who has the best delivery system?

**Without national standards how can we know who has the best delivery system?**
**Partnerships with parents, law enforcement, driver licensing, government and other highway safety partners is needed.**

## Who has the best delivery system?

**Public and commercial driving schools need to work cooperatively, seeking the highest of standards and quality instruction.**
**Rather than seeing each other   as competition for student enrollment.**

## Closing Remarks

**Improvements have been made in curriculum, training, and standards.**
**However, much more needs to be done.**

**Closing Remarks**

## Closing Remarks

**Both need to be more effective.**
**National standards are needed for content and delivery of driver education and training.**
**Both need to be at the table when the standards are determined.**

**Closing Remarks**

## Closing Remarks

**Enforcement and Engineering alone will not fix the problem.**
**Education is the missing link.**

**Closing Remarks**

## Closing Remarks

**It needs to culminate with action.**
**Not just another report gathering dust on our bookshelves.**

**Closing Remarks**

## Slide 90