Your Call Jane Saddler Road Safety Scotland

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Your CallJane SaddlerRoad Safety Scotland
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Your CallJane SaddlerRoad Safety Scotland
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Your Call

• Why do we need a new resource?
• Who is the target audience?
• What do we want to achieve?
• Where are we in the development process?
• When will it arrive?

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Why?

• Our target audience is 11-14 year old (S1-S3),
  the age range statistically most at risk on our
  roads
• Current resource needs to be updated and brought
  in line with a Curriculum for Excellence

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there is a teenager.

• feels invincible
• has done road safety
• unaware of risk
• peer pressure
• too cool

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and a teacher

• needs to deliver curriculum
• timetable pressures
• lacks up to date resources
• little preparation time
• lacks own teaching space

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What do we want to achieve? Progression Real
Relevant Choice Flexibility Challenging
Engaging
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What we want to achieve

• PROGRESSION
• Build on work that has already been covered at
  primary
• 2. REAL RELEVANT
• meaningful for this age group
• up to date

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What we want to achieve

• CHOICE FLEXIBILITY
• choose the most appropriate content/
  methodologies to suit teaching group/school.
• CHALLENGING ENGAGING
• active learning/rich tasks/attractive

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• Whats the ultimate aim
• To produce a resource that
• Challenges young peoples views and ideas
  allowing them to reflect on life experiences.
• Encourages young people to take responsibility
  for their own learning.
• Encourages young people to take responsibility
  for the safety of themselves and others on our
  roads.

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Active learning environment

• MORE
• Discussion/debate
• interaction
• Open questions
• Finding out
• Solving problems
• Inventing
• Real life experiences
• Speculation/reflection

• LESS
• Teacher talk
• Passivity
• Closed questions
• Being told
• Giving answers
• Copying
• Worksheets
• Giving of right answers

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• For you to try

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• Rank the following in order of their level of
  distraction while you are driving
• A. using your mobile phone
• B. having an argument with your passenger
• C. listening to a soundtrack that evokes a
  strong memory
• D. using a hands free mobile
• E. running late for a meeting

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Learning intentions of lesson

• Content based
• discuss distractions - emotional, physical
• Skills based
• basic skills - communication
• higher order thinking skills - creative
  thinking, decision making
• affective skills - responsibility, team work,
  motivation, cooperation, enthusiasm

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Where we are now

• Consultation research findings
• Set up a working group
• Develop materials lesson plans,
• DVD dramas and animation production

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Where are we now - the Vision

• 1. Short DVD dramas and game based lessons
• S1/S2 drama with a pedestrian theme
• explores risky behaviour, peer pressure,
  citizenship, responsibilities, distractions
• S2/S3 drama with a passenger theme
• explores pre driver attitudes, stereotypes,
  responsibilities, distractions
• aspects of being a cyclist, pedestrian and the
  passenger in a car/public transport are covered
  in each

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Where are we now - the Vision

• 2. Utilise modern technology
• Content
• social networking sites, webcams, i-pods
• filmed using self-generated mobile phone camera
  images and CCTV
• Delivery
• whiteboard, DVD, PC
• whole class or individual

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Where are we now - the Vision

• 3. Give road safety greater breadth in
  curriculum
• Covers themes of
• Peer pressure, risk taking, decision making,
  confidence/assertiveness, citizenship, media
  influence, personal safety

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Where are we now - the Vision

• 4. Make relevant links
• Curriculum for Excellence
• Health Wellbeing
• Determined to Succeed
• Glow
• Citizenship - British Red Cross
• Sustainable transport

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When will it arrive!

• Trial materials with young people
• Promote resource teachers, RSOs, pupils,
  parents
• Effective training in the use of the resource

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• Coming to a classroom near you
  in the not-so-distant future
  YOUR CALL

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