One of the major attractions of the BIG TOM intensive course is for learning to drive efficiently.
When you learn to drive, you are introduced to key ideas and themes that all good drivers adopt when they drive on the public roads. If you were to count them up over the course of a training programme there would be several of these key learning points. When a customer makes a booking for one of the BIG TOM intensive courses, they are immediately sent digital resources that help them to start understanding these ideas. At this stage, a pupil is perfectly relaxed at home, far more able to absorb information than when inside the driving school vehicle and all the distractions that come with it. They can ask questions and answer a quiz on the new knowledge and do all of this when calm and relaxed at home.
By engaging in these resources, when these topics crop up in the in-car training phase of the course, it isn’t the first time a pupil has been made aware of them. So already, a pupil is being asked to RETRIEVE previously learnt information, and that process of retrieval helps to reinforce learning. And then it will arise again the next day, and the next day.
Contrast the above approach with what typically happens on ‘pay as you go’ driving lessons. A pupil is introduced to a key theme on a lesson, and it is the first time they have ever heard of that information. They are in the driving school car, there are potentially many distractions around them to interfere with their ability to absorb the information that they are being told about. It will then be 7 days (perhaps even more) before they are asked to recall that information again, by which time, much of it may have been forgotten.
With the intensive courses, these ideas, techniques and tips crop up several times within a four hour training session. Pupils get the opportunity to be reminded of them, many times in quick succession. When a driving lesson is only an hour long, perhaps it might only crop up once or twice, so not only are there longer gaps in time between the learning points, but also less frequency. Generally speaking, pupils like to learn by constant and regular repetition – this is pretty much universal for how most of us like to learn.
This is one reason why customers book up the BIG TOM intensive courses: they appreciate the techniques used in learning to drive efficiently.
