MINI COURSES
What's our Mini Courses?
Who it's designed for:
🟢 Those looking for specific, targeted training
🟢 Those looking for bite sized, shorter courses
🟢 Suitable for trainees (PDIs) and ADIs
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What it covers:
A range of training topics and themes!
Complete with detailed training and practical tasks
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Type of subscription:
Lifetime Purchase
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Pricing:
Lifetime: £30
Immediate access - yours forever!
Mini Course Deal:
Buy 4 Mini Courses and get 1 free! ​​​​​​
About these courses
✅ Bite sized courses on targeted skills and elements
✅ Great for self study, training, and CPD​​
✅ Consolidates and enhances knowledge and practical ability
✅ Engaging videos and practical tasks to implement in lessons
✅ Yours forever - you can re-watch as often as you like! ​
✅ User friendly platform and app
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Pricing and Access
Lifetime Purchase: £30
Immediate access - yours forever!
To purchase individual Mini Courses, please click the purchase button next to each Mini Course.​
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Mini Course Discount Deal:
Buy 4 Mini Courses and get 1 FREE!
If you'd like to buy 5 for the price of 4, please do not purchase the individual courses you'd like - please click the Mini Course Discount Deal to complete payment. You'll be redirected to a form to choose your 5 Mini Courses.​​​​​​​​​​​
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On Go Green?
Go Green members receive access to two Mini Courses each month - rotated each month to give you variety and extra training content! Lou's 14 Days to Wake Up Your Questions and our 8 Fundamental Instructor Skills Mini Courses are included in Go Green PDI Course subscriptions too!
Looking for a specific course?
Click on the course to jump straight to it
🟢 Lou's 14 Days to Wake Up Your Questions
🟢 The High 5 Skills
🟢 The 8 Fundamental Instructor Skills
🟢 Why PDIs fail part 1, 2 and 3
🟢 Adapting Lessons
🟢 Fault Identification
🟢 Commentary Driving
🟢 Mastering Mock Tests
🟢 Mastering Manoeuvres
🟢 Supporting Pupils with Anxiety
🟢 Level of Instruction - Part 1
🟢 Level of Instruction - Part 2
🟢 Effective Communication
🟢 Top 10 Reasons Pupils Fail Their Test
🟢 The Business Side of Being a Driving Instructor
🟢 Self Care within Instructing
Once you've signed up through PayPal, you'll be redirected to our course platform to activate your course.
You'll also receive an email with a link to activate. Our emails sometimes find their way to your spam folder!​
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Lou's 14 Days to Wake Up Your Questions
✅ Reflect on your questions, understanding factors that make questions effective
✅ Learn motives to ask productive, constructive questions
✅ Understand common traps and pitfalls
✅ Experiment with popular alternatives, leading to better outcomes with pupils
✅ Try Lou's techniques and practical tasks to implement in your lessons
✅ Discover ways to stimulate, challenge and influence your pupil's learning
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The High 5 Skills
✅ A closer look at: Car Control, Awareness, Anticipation, Planning & Judgment
✅ Dive into how the High 5 Skills are interlinked and the role they play
✅ Learn how to incorporate the skills into carrier subjects and the value they hold
✅ Take practical tasks, techniques and games into your lessons to make it real life!
✅ Facilitate pupils to develop the High 5 Skills - now and for their future driving
✅ Discover ways to build pupil's confidence and help them understand the value
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The 8 Fundamental Instructor Skills
✅ A deep dive into the crucial skills you need, to build solid foundations in instructing
✅ Discover how the skills are interlinked and the role they play
✅ Take our 5 golden nuggets for each skill, to develop a deeper understanding
✅ Implement our practical tasks for each skill into your lessons
✅ See how your Part 3 or Standards Check is assessed against these skills
Why PDIs fail part 1, 2 and 3
✅ Discover the top 5 reasons PDIs fail each part of the qualifying process
✅ Explore a deeper understanding of the common traps
✅ Find solutions and actionable tips to implement in your training
✅ Useful for PDIs and Trainers - learn the common pitfalls and how to avoid
Adapting Lessons
✅ Embrace change, understand your pupil's needs, and sense when to adapt
✅ Learn the degrees of adaptation and the variables within this
✅ Discover the factors to consider and how to take the most appropriate action
✅ Look at the common traps within adapting, solutions to avoid
✅ Hear real life case studies and examples
✅ Learn how adapting on your part 3 looks different, with ADI1 guidance
4 Steps to Fault ID
✅ Understand what fault ID truly means and how to implement the 4 steps
✅ Learn how to observe with purpose and identify faults
✅ Discover questions to analyse the root cause of faults
✅ Understand how to find workable solutions that pupils can practice
✅ Learn how to categorise and prioritise faults - what to fix and when!
✅ Put our practical tasks into action during your lessons!
Commentary Driving
✅ Discover what commentary driving is, when and why to use it, and the benefits
✅ Learn how the High 5 Skills can be incorporated to improve awareness
✅ Recognise how commentary driving can be used in your driving and teaching
✅ Look at the link between commentary driving and the 17 competencies
✅ Equip yourself with skills & techniques to analyse yours & your pupil's driving
✅ Understand how specific detail, timing, and communication has value here
Mastering Mock Tests
✅ Understand the purpose of an effective mock test and it's use for pupil reflection
✅ Learn how to maintain objectivity and know the relevance of DT1 test criteria
✅ Discover types of faults, how to assess, and provide constructive feedback
✅ Know your role, and understand how to prepare yourself and your pupils
✅ Learn what a good mock test looks like, and alternative mock tests to add variety! ✅ Understand how to reflect through results, and debrief thoroughly
Mastering Manoeuvres
✅ Learn acceptable criteria for manoeuvres, how to teach, explore, and fix
✅ Discover considerations and factors, skills to teach first, and use of reference points
✅ Understand the driving test criteria and the tolerance during tests
✅ Explore the relationship between teaching manoeuvres and transferable skills
✅ View our own aerial footage of each manoeuvre to see what they 'look' like!
✅ Implement our practical tasks to level up your lessons!
Supporting Pupils With Anxiety
✅ Understand what anxiety truly is and how it may implicate a pupil's learning
✅ Discover how anxiety might manifest and show emotionally and physically
✅ Learn tools and techniques to respond and support pupils functionally
✅ Learn progressive exercises, positive reinforcement, & reframing thought techniques
✅ Take our 5 suggested adaptable tips to support pupils!
✅ Understand the role of your skill, confidence, control and communication
Level of Instruction - Part 1
✅ See our overview, the different types of instruction, and when to set your levels
✅ Learn how to recognise different levels and the importance of communication
✅ Learn how to determine a starting level, initial assessment techniques and variables
✅ Take our techniques for instruction & learn to fine tune based on real time feedback
✅ We explore FAQs based on techniques, management, assessment & requirements
Level of Instruction - Part 2
✅ Learn to recognise when a change is needed, adaptability and variable factors
✅ Look at proactive vs reactive instruction, and managing inappropriate instruction
✅ Explore related competencies, maximising instruction whilst meeting pupil needs
✅ Explore how level of instruction may differ during a part 3/standards check
✅ Hear our real life case studies and examples
✅ Learn to handle high stake environments and promote true independence
Effective Communication
Explore communication within:
✅ Directions & instructions, to be clear and in good time
✅ Roles & responsibilities, to achieve best outcomes through level of instruction
✅ Managing driving tests, to manage expectations and becoming better equipped
✅ Self evaluation, to create a culture where pupils return effective communication
✅ Safety critical incidents, to be proactive, responding, and using verbal control
✅ Your business, to stay professional, maintain reputation, and build rapport
Top 10 Reasons Pupils Fail Their Test
✅ We explore the 2025 DVSA published top 10 reasons pupils fail their test!
✅ We compare these to the 2019 list and explore why these are the top reasons
✅ Look at contributing factors, real examiner feedback, and clarifying assumption
✅ Hear suggestions to incorporate these into lessons to avoid pupils falling into traps
✅ Learn to shape your lessons and teaching techniques to combat these traps!
The Business Side Of Being An Instructor
✅ Insights and considerations - what to do, not to do, tips & advice to be successful!
✅ We discuss HMRC, tax & accounts, income & expenses, and financial records
✅ We discuss T&Cs, GDPR, privacy policies, business records, and safeguarding
✅ We discuss insurances that you might need, plus advertising do's and don'ts
✅ We discuss managing an effective diary, and communication to maintain rapport
Self Care Within Instructing
✅ Look at how self care fits into life as an instructor and contributes to success
✅ Discover types of self care, related to fitness, sleep, diet, stress and mental health
✅ Learn how to look after yourself whilst teaching, with different variables
✅ Learn to shape your future, set realistic goals, achieve a better work/life balance
✅ Discover ways of staying mentally healthy to avoid burning help
✅ Explore our signposted resources and know when to seek additional help if needed
