Developing Creative Training Methods in EU Candidate Countries

In mid-February we held a hugely successful train-the-trainer programme in Vienna, for delegates from Antalya, Turkey for the European project APPSA (Achieve Pedestrian Priority and Safety in Antalya City Center).  The training programme provided creative methods for promoting road safety and pedestrian priority to diverse target groups ranging from primary school children to driving instructors.

The focus of the training – developed within the framework of the European Transfer of Innovation project APPSA – was on enabling driving instructors, police officers and traffic safety officers to create target-group-oriented training courses using a variety of multimedia materials, adapted to learners’ various ‘multiple intelligences’.  The trainees will be using their new skills to develop their own tailored trainings in Turkey, disseminating this best practice to over 50 new road-safety trainers in Antalya.

Source: Transport of London

Our trainees learnt that teaching road-safety legislation to learner drivers can involve more than just dictating a set of rules. Instead, by using various multimedia materials, such as this shocking image from a recent road safety campaign in London, trainers can begin to have a real impact on the knowledge, understanding and attitudes of learners.

The training culminated with a practice-training, in cooperation a Vienna-based driving school.  Our trainees from Antalya had the opportunity to develop short training sessions, and practice them on a specialised group of Turkish-speaking driving instructors from the driving school U3ver.
How would you use this image to create lively training sessions, that get learners moving, talking, planning, thinking?