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Introduction to
Online Driver Ed. Course
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Better
Drivers Driver Ed. Course - Introduction
Welcome to Driver Education Class. Earning a driver's license and the privilege of driving is a great step toward the freedom--and responsibility--of adulthood. It is exciting for us to be part of this time in the lives of our students. Thanks for coming to Better Drivers. It is hard to preface a driver education course. There are so many things to say and every one of them is the most important. So I have a couple of introductory blurbs. You should read them all so you know what this whole thing is about. Please read A Message from the Instructors . ********** Course Syllabus Our course is approved by Guam DMV. The Territory of Guam Driver's Handbook is available for download here . There
are seven parts to our classroom portion of the driver education course as
approved by Department of Motor Vehicles. The chapters are as follows: 1.
Passing
the Written and Driving Tests
2.
Attitude,
Perceptions and Traffic Safety
3.
Managing
Space and Time and Collision Avoidance
4.
How
to Drive, Rules of the Road and Traffic Laws
5.
Traffic
Signs and Lanes and Lines (Road Use)
6.
Drugs
and Alcohol and Their Affects on Drivers
7.
Adverse
Conditions (Rain, Storms, Night Driving, Construction, and Others)
If you
want a complete course, * Read all the articles on both sites; the online course
site and the guamdrivingschool.com
site. * Read the "Survey
of the Handbook". * Do all the sample questions and read the discussions. * Watch all the videos. * Do the assignments. * Come into one of our offices to make payment and take the final exam and recieve
your certificate. ROCEDURE for the On-line Course: 1. Preview course material to be sure you want to do it. Be
sure parents or legal guardians approve . 2. Contact driving school by email. Let us know you are taking the
online course. Include name ,DOB and telephone
number. 3. Study. Email instructors with any questions you have. 4. Come to office to take the final exam, make payment and pick up
certificate. When you register and pay, you
have access to unlimited classroom instruction in either physical location (Yigo or Hagatna) as well as
the Internet material.
You can go as fast as you want and finish in one day, or you can be
more thorough and get more out of it. It's up to you. You will eventually need to come to one of our offices to
complete the course by taking the final exam, making your payment and pick up
your certificate. We tried to offer the final exam via email but found
it wasn't as successful as we had hoped, so for now you must come into one of
our offices, either E. Agana or Yigo
to complete the course. When you email the driving school, please be sure to include
your name and date of birth so we can keep track of our correspondence. It is
all part of your student record. Thank you in advance for doing that. There are two parts to driver’s Ed. This online course comprises the
first half, the classroom portion. You will have to come in eventually and do
the behind-the-wheel training where you actually drive in a car with one of
our instructors. Do not forget this part. If you call me up and say “no one
told me I had to do driving lessons” then you did not read this information! Of
course, you have to do the driving lesson with a real, live instructor. Here
are the steps to obtaining a license . Print this out and post it
on your fridge as a reminder of “what to do next”. BENEFITS of On-line Course Delivery COURSE MATERIALS: The Territory of Guam Driver Handbook is included in the class fee.
For classroom attendees, the book is provided in booklet form. For those who
study on-line, the Territory of Guam Driver's Handbook is available in PDF
format for free download here. It is about 8 MB. (It was 32 MB when we
scanned it, so we typed the whole thing to make a smaller file size for you.)
Customers who take the course online can stop by our office and get a free
handbook if they have paid the class fee. You can read the PDF Handbook online or you can print it, but it's
about 40 pages (too fat to staple) and lots of ink, so if you really want to
read an actual hold-in-your-hands book, just come in to our office and register,
pay the $60, and get a free handbook. The Survey of the Handbook is
an important part of the course. It includes a series of lectures based
on the text of the Handbook. The book text is highlighted in color-coded
markings. Blue words link to more detailed discussion. Green text
is for phrases you need to memorize for the test. Purple text indicates
instructors' commentary. Each Unit starts with a few main points, then the essays/lectures,
then the multiple-choice questions. There are also extra multiple-choice
practice questions and optional assignments and tutorials. The on-line course delivery option
will provide the required 32 hours of instruction for the classroom portion
of the driver education requirements. Better Drivers Driving Education is
approved by Guam DMV. So of course our certificates are honored
by DMV.
Let's
get started! (There are more articles, videos and audio files coming soon! We
are working hard to present this to you.)
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