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© 2008 by Mahomet-Seymour Schools.
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Mahomet-Seymour Schools
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Curriculum
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Drivers Education
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The learner will be able to identify signs by color,
shape and symbol.
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The learner will be able to recognize traffic flow
patterns and lane usage by identifying driving settings, road markings, and
signs.
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The learner will be able to explain right of ways for
all road situations.
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The learner will be able to understand Illinois
law limitations that pertain to permits, licenses, D.U.I's, school bus
stops, work zones, other motor vehicles and other Illinois
traffic laws.
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The learner will be able to view an organ
donation: recognize the risk of
their own death from driving, recognize that organ donation is the only
means of survival for some people waiting for transplants, discuss these
and other organ donor issues with parents and guardians.
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The learner will be able to examine some of the
problems and attitudes of senior drivers.
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The learner will be able to view the video "teen
driver" and examine the problems and attitudes of three teen drivers
known as "not me", "cool", and "freedom".
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The learner will view the video "it's a matter
of attitude": identify the
names, attitudes, and emotions of each driver, and explain the results of
their attitudes on their driving performance.
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The learner will be able to recognize his or her own
attitude as the single most important part of their life time of driving.
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The learner will be able to read an article on road
rage, defining its attitudes and problems.
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The learner will be able to state the goal of driving as safe
transportation.
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The learner will be able to write an essay on what a
good driving attitude is.
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The learner will be able to view a video,
"street smart" and examine the difficulties of permit driving
with parent coaches.
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The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of procedures and
concepts in the following driving areas of training: pre-driving, starting,
shifting, braking, accelerating, backing, tracking, turning, passing,
merging, changing lanes, parking, turning around, and following.
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The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of
the advantages and limitations of the seat belt, head restraint, child
restraint systems, ABS, air bags and other car safety features.
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The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of
the dynamics of an auto collision.
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The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of
the purpose, function and reliability of seat belts, head restraints, child
restraint systems, ABS, air bags, and other car safety features.
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The learner will be able to recognize the inherent
flaws in excuses given for not wearing seat belts.
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The learner will be able to recognize the following
driving settings: highway,
interstate, rural, town or city, residential, work zone, and school zone.
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The learner will be able to identify important
driving information from: traffic patterns, signs, signals, road markings,
road conditions, pedestrian proximity, and animal proximity.
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The learner will be able to identify and predict
driving problems within settings.
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The learner will be able to choose strategies and
actions that will reduce and solve problems that they have identified.
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The learner will be able to recognize the need for
sleep as an over powering and crippling driver problem that is much
underrated by the general public.
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The learner will be able to identify signs associated
with fatigue and falling asleep.
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The learner will be able to identify short term
remedies for fatigue and falling asleep.
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The learner will be able to understand that sleep is
the only long term solution to fatigue, that no one is immune to falling
asleep at the wheel, and that most people do not know when they are about
to fall asleep while driving.
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The learner will be able to recognize alcohol as a
contributing factor to both fatigue and falling asleep.
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The learner will be able to understand that fatigued
drivers fall asleep during daylight hours almost as easily as they would
during late night hours.
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The learner will be able to develop strategies to
prevent fatigued driving.
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The learner will be able to develop strategies for
safe driving under the following adverse driving situations: night driving,
driving in rain, on snow and ice, in fog, in high wind, and in severe cold
temperatures.
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Pedestrians, Bicycles, Animals
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The learner will be able to identify pedestrian and
bicycle created motor vehicle problems and develop strategies for
preventing motor vehicle collisions with either of these groups.
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The learner will be able to identify small animal and
large animal created motor vehicle problems and develop strategies for
preventing motor vehicle collisions with either of these groups.
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Trucks, Trains, Motorcycles
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The learner will be able to identify the unique
problems that large trucks, trains, and motorcycles bring to the roadways
and develop strategies for safely driving.
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The learner will be able to define alcohol as a drug
and define concepts relating to its drug use.
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The learner will be able to understand (in a simple
way) the immediate and long term effects of alcohol on human physiology.
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The learner will be able to understand the effect of
alcohol on the user's behavior and attitude, and recognize typical user
denials of impairment.
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The learner will be able to understand the immediate
and residual effect of alcohol on driving performance.
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The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of drunk driving indicators.
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The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of
alternatives to drinking and driving as well as consequences for drinking
and driving.
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The learner will be able to review collisions
identifying the driver's attitudes and errors causing the collisions.
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The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of
driver emergency procedures when mechanical failures occur with a vehicle.
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The learner will be able to write a list of steps to
be taken by a driver after becoming involved in a collision, and fill out
an IDOT accident report on an actual or hypothetical collision.
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The learner will be able to observe the driving of
other students in a productive educational manner, and without creating
driver distractions for three to six hour.
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The learner will be able to demonstrate improvement
in driving knowledge and skills over six hours of lessons while progressing
from the parking lot, to rural roads, to town roads, to highways, to
interstates, and finally to a variety of city traffic situations.
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The learner will be able to demonstrate that good
driving habits have been achieved over their six hour driving progression.
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The learner will be able to by the end of six hours
of driving progressions, demonstrate that their decision making and driving
responses will keep them and their passengers safe
without an undo amount of coaching from the instructor.
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