Teaching a learner driver basic roundabouts in Great Britain

This is how I help people learn and gain confidence on basic roundabouts in Great Britain. It's worth noting that I don't take people on roundabouts until they have started to get a good grasp of basic T junctions, traffic lights and mini roundabouts.

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00:00 Intro
00:11 About Jake
01:02 Jake's Homework
02:15 Responsibilities
05:31 My car Your car
06:27 Slow at first
07:27 Routine
09:09 Demonstration puppet
11:40 Demonstration prompted
14:45 Recap
16:07 Outro

[JRS-UK]

All these comments about the instructor talking too much... seriously? It's Jake's first time navigating a roundabout.
Any good instructor would start with guided teaching unless the pupil requests otherwise. Once the pupil fully understands what to do, then they switch to prompted teaching - allowing the pupil to give it a go now they have the knowledge and can prompt should they miss/forget something. Richard demonstrates this perfectly, starting with a guided first attempt and moving more towards prompting (example - when Jake forget about the signal) as he progressed. - Great video as always Richard, keep up the good work :)

[Carlos-srkm]

Just passed today. Top tip visualise yourself hearing them say "You've passed" and you'll manifest it.

[banc]

Richard Fanders, you are awsome! :) people having you as their instructor should feel lucky, you're just on another level in teaching.
Thank you!

[polefit_jess_alopecia]

I have just started driving again after six years and have been extremely nervous your videos have been a huge help thank you so much I’ll make sure to thumbs up all your videos!! Thank you again x

[beaujamo]

You’re making driving lessons an art. Thank you for upping the bar!

[zouraalgeria]

Customers are really lucky to have you as their instructor, up the good job

[deef]

I've been teaching my daughter to drive in between her lessons - and this video has been invaluable to re-assure me that I am teaching her correctly. We've done the parrot method and also now we are working on her doing most of it on her own, but with me guiding her on what to watch for so she can make a good decision to go. I don't have dual controls and we have a rule, if I say "stop, stop, stop" she must stop immediately. I've had a couple of those, and she's done great, so its given me the confidence to push her a little further each time.

Generally we pick a route and do it over and over, correcting small mistakes each go round. I've actually just emailed her a link to your roundabouts video and told her to watch it before her lesson tomorrow :) so a big thumbs up from me!

[miarose]

I just passed yesterday. 🥳🥳🥳 love your video's they have helped me so much over the last year to prepare forvmy test. Thankyou so much for making the difference and helping others achieve their goals of driving 🚗 ✨️ 🙏🙏

[jassonhyde]

Your methods are really good! Explaining the lesson before applying it, on the spot rather than in a moving car, is the best way to remove the student's anxiety; Showing where to look is also good, because if the student is not very good with the pedals, there are mistakes and confusion with decisions. Thanks again for these videos, absolutely gold, you helped me so much, I'm on the 24th hour of my driving course and maybe half of the things I learned are from here (even if I'm not from the UK the principles are the same), Thank you!

[tnguyen]

Had a tough day learning how to deal with roundabouts so looked up and found this one. Is really a lift for my spirit!

[banoulka]

Would you consider uploading more learner driver videos? They seem to really help me because I can see the whole process broken down really well especially being put into practice by a learner. I also love the way you do your instructing and teaching process and love watching it to help my own decisions and thought processes when doing my own driver learning! :)

[amswestyorkshire]

Thank you Richard I love your way of teaching.

[SiostraEmo]

I find driving teachers usually talk so much, I strugle to find room in my head to proceess my thoughts, situation on the road and what I should be doing at any given moment.
Also I find that driving teachers think too much for learner drivers which results in bad driving once they have passed since sudrey theres noone to make decisions for them.

I wish there was more room to allow learner to think independently.

[awesomea]

Love these videos of you with a learner. I’m at about 8 hours with an instructor and I’m out every day practicing. Your videos are AMAZING in helping me to understand the road before I get on my lesson. Thank you!!!

[thando]

Thank you so much for the help. Learned how to drive manual in 1 week through your videos and practice and passed my test. Thank you, all the way from Australia!

[tianna]

The Spanish 😂 This is an amazing video I struggle a bit still with roundabouts and my test is in 10 days 😭 so going for a lot of practise over the weekend. This is good preparation for technique and refreshing my memory. I’ve been binge watching your videos. Thank you!

[joyalvarghese]

Dear Richard, U are a fab instructor, the way u make driving easy is appreciable. Good job... keep up ur good work imparting driving knowledge to fellow humans. God bless.

[aryabj]

Omg the instructor is soo good at what he is doing!! Good explanation.!!

[PascalDickhoff]

Whenever I look back on my driving instructor, I feel like he did a good job. But nowhere near your teaching skills :D fantastic to watch. Calm and collected, helpful and with a clear system of "i help you now, I dont help you now"... sometimes my instructor decided to suddenly do something like pushing the gas whch often confused me... But I used to tend to get too close to the curb sometimes :D hehe

[Jamesdanielfitness]

You're a great instructor! Might consider my ADI in a couple of years :)