Driver Education Programs- National Driver TrainingNational Driver Training InstituteDriver Education Program for Parents of Teenagers -- Welcome
Comprehensive driver education requires in-depth study of a multitude of topics to include a functional understanding of the rules of the road, right-of-way law, and the incompatibility of behaviors such as substance abuse, distracted driving, and aggressive driving or “road rage.”
Our systematic and progressive approach utilizes the latest trends in driver training. The program is available in multiple formats: text, interactive CD-Rom, or internet.
The curriculum is built in seven levels. Each level contains two parts. Part one is classroom and part two is driving. The student must pass the classroom and driving activities at each level before graduating to the next level. Our concurrent training outline is easy to follow and allows students to practice and retain what they have learned. (Texas students are eligible for their permit test after completing 6 hours of study).
For your convenience, you only have to send in coursework at the completion of all seven levels. Send us your evaluations and logs for review; books and CDs are yours to keep.
Take some time to watch the Young Drivers video here. See if your teen likes this video. If they do, they will love our program.
We have added over 25 full length modern videos to our online video library. All packages include access to this extensive video collection. No other driver ed program in the United States can compare.
Understanding Car Crashes is one of many example of the types of videos included in our program. Take a test drive ON US!
Part 1: Drivers Ed Discovery Group
The discovery group in each level begins at home with reading material provided in the student manual. Once the student has read the material, he will take a written test provided in the driver education manual or online program.
In addition to the reading material, the student will accrue class hours by participating in "additional activities." These projects, such as tire rotation, oil changes, current events research, etc., give the student "hands on" experience and make the discovery group learning more practical and less theoretical. We are constantly updating our video library. Each level will require the student to watch videos that are associated to that particular level. Young Drivers and Understanding Car Crashes are both examples of the quality of films that we have to offer.
The student must complete a minimum of 30 (32 for Texas) hours of driver education, and achieve a score of 90% or more to qualify for our completion certificate. No exceptions.
Part 2: Behind-the-Wheel
Phase two of each level is driving. Your student will gradually increase in skill, experience, and driving maturity while progressing from one level to the next. Each level directs you step-by-step through a progressive and systematic process of driver training.
We also include "Things to Emphasize" and "Things to Watch For." These sections in the parent's manual help you to identify when your teenager is likely to be nervous, inattentive, or overconfident and prepare you to handle the situation. Our driving evaluation sheets allow you to objectively assess your student's performance.
Performance based evaluation equips you, the parent, to confidently graduate your teen from one level to the next. You and your teen will know when to progress forward. You will be surprised and excited as you witness your teen's maturity, skill, experience, and progress.
Statistics have proven the value of ensuring your teen has spent enough time training. Our driving logs give you a simple form to record all of the information you need while tracking your teen's training.
Our program is approved in many states throughout the US. Please visit your state page to find out about current laws in your state and how they might effect you.
* Your state requires that behind-the-wheel instruction be completed with a local driver education instructor. Our program is available in your state to supplement your current driver education program. Click here for program options.
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National Driver Training is the only driving school that invests your dollars directly into driver safety. Not only do we provide the nation's best curriculum and videos for driver education and training but we also work directly with senators and representatives on your behalf to establish the parent's right to instruct their own teens across the nation. We have been involved with legislation around the country in 28 states.
Our successes are unparalleled. While other driving schools may choose to maintain the status quo, NDTI is raising the bar on driver safety and lowering the collision and fatality rates of teenagers. Please visit our Driver Education Forum for further information on programs in your area. See Articles that Hit Home!
You are never on your own; our staff is dedicated to being available for you and your student. Driver Education can be confusing. Our tutor team is trained to answer your questions and provide prompt friendly service. National Driver Training provides you with 30 toll free technical support lines to assist you and your teen 10 hours each day, Monday thru Friday, at no additional charge.
We have added over 25 full length modern videos to our online video library. All packages include access to this extensive video collection. No other driver ed program in the United States can compare.
Understanding Car Crashes is one of many example of the types of videos included in our program. Click on the image below...
What is GDL? Graduated Driver Licensing is a system for phasing in on-road driving, allowing beginners to get their initial experience under conditions that involve lower risk and introducing them in stages to more complex driving situations.
Take some time to watch the Young Drivers video here. See if your teen likes this video. If they do, they will love our program.
What is Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL)? Essentially an apprentice system, graduated licensing involves three stages. the first is a supervised learner's period, lasting a minimum of 6 months in optimal systems, then an intermediate licensing phase that permits unsupervised driving only in less risky situations, and finally a full-privilege license becomes available when conditions of the first two stages have been met.
Within this framework, substantial variation is possible in terms of the provisions of the stages and their duration. This variation often has created difficulty for jurisdictions that are constructing a graduated system. Policymakers need to know what features their system should include and what the characteristics should be.
Oklahoma Approved - Level 1 instruction can be started at any time. However, immediately after Level 1, behind-the-wheel instruction begins. At this point, the student must be at least 15 and ½ years of age, possess a valid Oklahoma Driver’s Instruction (Learner’s) Permit, and the parent must submit an affidavit and have it accepted by the Oklahoma Dept. of Public Safety stating the parent is a licensed driver and the vehicle is properly insured. Find out more about Oklahoma Driver Education.
New Mexico Approved - New Mexico law requires students to obtain written approval from the Traffic Safety Center at the Institute of Public Law before enrollment into our course. You can download this application by visiting http://ipl.unm.edu/traf/ and clicking "Application to Enroll in Driver Education Correspondence School. Find out more about New Mexico Driver Education.
Minnesota now Approved - 30 hour classroom now approved in Minnesota for full time homeschoolers only. Find out more about Minnesota Driver Education.
We are now hiring part time driver education instructors throughout all of Colorado. No experience necessary - Will train. Must be at least 25. Flexible hours/coordinate schedule with each student.
Educators-Seeking enthusiastic people to teach driver education and driver training
(Behind-the-wheel) to teenagers and adults- Openings part and full time work available. Ideal position for schoolteachers, police officers, bus drivers and professionals needing full or part tine employment. Must have perfect driving record, clear CBI background clearance and willing to train and receive certifications.
National Driver Training will pay for training cost and fees you provide required time. Aurora, Parker, Littleton, Monument and Colorado Springs, Northglenn, Greeley, Loveland and Fort Lupton.
For availability in your area, please call 1-800-942-2050 or fill out our online application
Great programs for great prices! Designed to fit your schedule.
Defensive Driving - Colorado 8 and 12 hour defensive driving course online. Colorado Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division APPROVED! Court APPROVED.
Behind-the-Wheel Training - Our on-road personal trainers work with your student individually for an hour at a time. Your personal trainer can follow a standard lesson plan or customize the instruction for your individual needs. Parents are always welcome to ride along on their teen's lesson.
Our most popular teen program, 6 hours of private instruction, costs $360. Adult students may choose two, four, six or more hours. Our fees are:
National Driver Training Institute has helped support every home school group, private school, public school and legislator who has contacted National Driver Training Institute for help in creating parent taught driver education laws and legislation for their state.
We are happy to report we have prevailed together on every legislation bill we have supported?
No other parent taught driver education provider has supported legislation financially or otherwise? National Driver Training Institute has been on the floor each and every time when called upon to witness on behalf of parents and legislators. So when considering a parent taught driver education program…
Consider who has helped changed the laws in your state. Also, consider which company has returned thousands of dollars in research and development in protecting our young drivers.
National driver Training Institute's program “ Help for the Teenager Who Wants to Drive” is still the only approved Graduated Driver Licensing Program in the United States. In fact we own the name “Graduated Driver Licensing”. Just add .com and see where you go.
How did The National Driver Training Institute's program “ Help for the Teenager Who Wants to Drive” get started?
Our program started in the United States Air Force. What seems to be a growing concern and serious problem with airmen in the United States Air Force is their lack of ability to drive to and from the base with out getting into a crash. Many of the airmen completed driver education in high school, however the education and training systems being used in the public school systems and commercial driving schools was not working.
In fact, the airmen that did not have driver education and training through public schools and commercial schools were involved in less crashes than the airmen that did complete such a course.
National Driver Training Institute's Employee's and researchers of the National Driver program “ Help for the Teenager Who Wants to Drive” studied the causes of the crashes and the training processes used across the country to teach our young new drivers.
After several years of study and research it was concluded that the problem with our young drivers did not exists within the young driver, but within the training process itself. So while we believe in our education process in the United States it hasn't proven to be effective in teaching our teens to be collision and crash free.
The teaching process with in itself needed a major overhaul and not even one of our universities in the United States teaching Driver Education and Training had offered any new teaching methods or processes.
Several professors, Dr. Charles McDaniel, Dr. George Carmenanti and developers of the driver education establishments tried to correct the problem by offering new systems in the late 60's and 70's, however these new concepts were rejected because of funding issues and the need for new tooling and curriculum development.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety continued to improve ways to make our vehicles and safety equipment safer with better seat belts and safety seats, bumpers that would hold up better, collapsible steering wheels and safety glass, air bags that continue to out perform the year before and still the fatalities continue to rise in numbers, each year higher than the year before.
Two major changes took place in the late 80's and early 90's. Finally we are seeing a change in the numbers of crashes and fatal collisions. The first thing that occurred was the concept of Graduated Licensing. This training process was modeled after flight school in the United States Air Force.
Graduated Driver Licensing:
We begin with joining the classroom with the behind-the-wheel training process concurrent with one another.
We add more hours behind-the-wheel to give the new drivers a chance to experience all four seasons and weather conditions under controlled risk factors.
We remove the 6 hour driver training clock and base achievement and graduation on performance, skill and experience.
We were trying to teach our new teenagers as if we were traveling on a two-lane dirt road at 35 MPH, when our average traveled speed in the United States exceeds 55 MPH on a six-lane highway. The average family had one vehicle in the fifties and sixties, .and then to two vehicles in the seventies. The day of driving on weekends with mom and dad for the first year or two is over. In today's hectic schedules, we are not spending the time to protect our teens and teach them to drive as we should be. Parents need to realize that as the times change we must keep pace with that change.
Our driving generation, 35 to 50 years old, will be remembered as the worse driving generation in the history of the automobile. We average 40,000 fatalities per year. Our generation needs to change the way we think and teach driver education.
Think about it- We spend about 12 years on basic education, reading writing, math, history and physical education
…and only 6 hours behind the wheel training in a vehicle.
Our Generation needs to be remembered as the generation that created the best drivers in history. The generation that did something about the way we think and teach driver training. We need help from every mom and dad to complete this goal. We need to invest our time in our teenagers and take the time needed to teach our teens to drive better.
This could mean as much as 1 or two years of guidance. And to do this you will need the very best curriculum and training videos available. You will need to allow driver education to become part of your families dinner conversation and sharing experiences on new intersections, changes on the interstate on ramps or maybe a lost of a fellow student friend.
Driver Education and Training is no longer a project to hire out to the local driving school. Parents need to get involved and stay involved for at least two or three years. Placing driving restrictions and hours on when a new driver is allowed to drive and with whom.
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National Driver Training's affiliate program allows established driving schools across the country to resell our home-study program. We also have numerous support services and instructor training available. Becoming an affiliate is an easy and very rewarding process. If you would like to provide our program to your students or are interested in any of our other services, find out how today!
You are never on your own; our staff is dedicated to being available for you and your student. Driver Education can be confusing. Our tutor team is trained to answer your questions and provide prompt friendly service. National Driver Training provides you with 30 toll free technical support lines to assist you and your teen 10 hours each day, Monday thru Friday, at no additional charge.
