PACING GUIDE for DRIVER EDUCATION 1900300 and 1900310 Objects/Standards: PR- Personal Driver Responsibilities; SK – Signs and Road Knowledge; VK – Vehicle Knowledge and Application; DK – Driving Knowledge and Application.
Number of Reporting Days/Weeks Category/ Standard 1.5 weeks
1.5 weeks
2 weeks
PR DE912.PR.1.1
PR/SK/VK/DK
SK DE912.SK.2.1
Big Idea The Driver and Licensing Basics
No STATE Standard or Benchmarks *Intended Goals for Course
Demonstrate understanding of basic aspects of Highway Transportation System.
Pre Test and DELAP Permit Testing
-Perform Pre-Assessment with created written test for assessing general overview and knowledge of Driver Education. -Complete written DELAP permit test as given by instructor and provided from the State.
Signs, Signals and Roadway Markings
Recognize and apply knowledge of what to do for road signs, signals and roadway markings.
Essential Ideas/Learning Goal Questions
Instructional Resources
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Describe how you are part of the Highway Traffic System. • Cite your responsibilities and tasks as the driver. • Describe the IPDE Process. • Connect your legal and financial obligations as a driver? • Formulate your responsibilities to yourself and others while engaged in driving tasks? • Explain the Graduated Driver Licensing Program (GDL). • Analyze Driving Fatality Rates for age groups. TESTING
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Describe the importance of shapes and colors of regulatory and warning signs and how to respond to each one Explain how regulatory signs control traffic. Identify the meaning of arrows, flashing lights, lane signals. Describe actions required with pedestrian and traffic control signals. Analyze exact process of what to do at a green, yellow and red light. Describe actions needed with broken and solid yellow and white lane markings Explain function of rumble strips.
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DMV handbook Driveright Textbook District PreTest
DELAP provide Test materials. District Provided Test Idea/Written Test for scantron recording. Test Road Signs
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PR DE912.PR.1.3
Alcohol , Other Drugs and Driving
Connect peer pressure, drinking and use of other drugs on driving and the laws that protect us.
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3-5 weeks
DK DE912.DK.4.1
Performing Basic Vehicle Maneuvers
Apply understanding of how to perform basic vehicle maneuvers.
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Identify meaning of highway exit ramps, railroad, school crossings and parking restrictions. Define Blood-alcohol Concentration (BAC) and factors affecting it. Compare and contrasts myths and facts related to use of alcohol, Investigate the physical, mental/emotional and psychological effects of alcohol. Analyze the different effects of depressants, stimulants and hallucinogenic drugs affect a driver. Describe the effects of combining alcohol with other drugs and how this changes effects on a driver. Interpret what is meant by the implied consent law. Summarize zero tolerance levels of impairment and how it is detected and measured. Explain the responsibility of the driver when stopped by a police officer. Draw conclusions on how peer influence and pressure might affect a person’s decision about drinking and potentially driving. Memorize the 5 steps in making a responsible decision and create your 5 personal ways you will say no to peer pressure. Explain use of rear, side and convex (blindspot) mirrors should be used and why. Apply concepts of how to safely back up, how backing up is high risk maneuver and how to minimize the risk. Connect situations and timing for proper signaling. Explain 3 methods for turnabouts and safest approach. Compare advantages and disadvantages of
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Quiz Speaker PSA’s
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Simulators and Extensive Driving
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DK DE912.DK.4.2
Managing Risk with IPDE Process
Interpret driving risks and explain IPDE process.
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1 week
PR DE912.PR.1.2
Effects of Driver Conditions
Analyze emotional and physical effects of a driver and their driving behaviors under these conditions.
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2-3 weeks
PR DE912.PR.1.4
Managing and Recognize the risks associated with Avoiding inattention and distractions inside Distractions and outside their vehicles.
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angle, perpendicular and parallel parking. Describe how to perform each parking maneuver and the differences in each. Apply the 4 steps in the IPDE process. Identify the factors that contribute to the degree of risk you face when driving. Identify the 6 zones and apply the positions and steps involved in Zone Control System. Analyze how knowledge and experience help you make accurate predictions. Describe the selective use of IPDE process and why it takes time and experiences to learn and apply it. Describe how emotions affect your ability to drive well and how you can manage these emotions. Explain how passengers can help and influence driver both negatively and positively. Define visual acuity and field of vision. Relate factors that affect and limit vision. Make observations on how your senses help you drive and how you manage sensory distractions. Predict how fatigue, medicines, carbon monoxide, smoking and many other elements affect a driver. Describe how drivers with permanent disabilities compensate. Compare how distracted driving differs from inattentive driving. Apply examples to the 4 categories of distracted driving; include how drivers can avoid inattention and distraction. Identify and provide examples of 5 categories of inside the vehicle distractions and how to avoid and reduce these distractions. Hypothesize how cell phone use can be
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Simulators and Extensive Driving
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Simulators and Extensive Driving
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Simulators and Extensive Driving PSA’s Quiz Book Assignments
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VK DE912.VK.3.2
Natural Laws and Car Control
Apply understanding of tire traction, balance, controlling curves, stopping distance and controlling impact force.
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DK DE912.DK.4.3
Negotiating Intersections
Negotiate right of way, controlling gaps, judging railroad crossings and roundabouts.
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distracting. Identify the categories and provide examples of outside the vehicle distractions and how they differ from inside vehicle distractions. Formulate ways for drivers to avoid outside vehicle distractions and becoming a distraction to other vehicles. Develop a logical argument for a friend or family member on why they should avoid inside and outside distractions. Describe inertia, momentum, gravity, and energy in motion as it relates to your vehicle on the road. Explain traction, tread and proper inflation as they relate to vehicle control on the road. Assess the factors that reduce traction. Describe factors that affect a vehicles balance, explain how sharpness of a curve, vehicle load and road shape effect vehicle control. Apply 3 actions that determine total stopping distance and the key factors in breaking distance. Distinguish the factors that that affect force of impact in a collision. Demonstrate proper use of seat belts. Prove why and how seat belts and air bags protect passengers. Differentiate how child passengers should be protected in a vehicle. Identify elements of an intersection and describe actions you should take as you approach and enter an intersection. Describe what you need to do if faced with a closed front zone at an intersection. Classify when you have the right of way. Construct situations in which a driver must yield the right of way. Predict how long it takes to cross and join or
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Simulators and Extensive Driving
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Simulators and Extensive Driving
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DK DE912.DK.4.4
Sharing the Roadway
Explain how to share road with pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists and specialized or emergency vehicles.
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merge into traffic. Apply concepts of correct actions to take entering intersection with signs and green, yellow or red traffic lights. Summarize procedures for making protected or unprotected left turns or for turning on red. Tell how to identify uncontrolled intersections and what actions you take approaching one. Cite evidence of some line-of-sight or pathof-travel restrictions you may encounter and who has the right of way at uncontrolled intersections. Distinguish between passive and active railroad crossings and the correct actions to take at railroad crossing. Critique how roundabouts benefit drivers and pedestrians. Compare flow of traffic circle to that of an intersection with a signal. Describe correct procedures for driving through roundabouts. Identify factors that put pedestrians at risk and actions that pedestrians can take to ensure their own safety. Explain correct procedures for interacting with pedestrians in a variety of situations. Describe how to search for cyclists and how to predict their actions. Predict the benefits of protective gear and identify situations where motorcycle riders may be at risk. Estimate risks associated with sharing the road with large vehicles. Describe how to pass, follow and meet large trucks safely. Recognize and explain all precautions you must take when driving near school buses
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Simulators and Extensive Driving Book assignments
1 week
DK DE912.DK.4.5
Driving in Adverse Conditions
Explain differences and complications of visibility and road conditions in adverse weather.
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1-2 weeks
DK DE912.DK.4.6
Handling Emergencies Properly
Understand how to handle emergencies that arrive with vehicle malfunctions, driving errors, roadway hazards, and collisions.
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1 week
DK DE912.DK.4.7
Driving in City Traffic
Understanding driving differences in city traffic and city road situations.
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and emergency vehicles. Describe how to use the IPDE process to manage risks in situations like poor visibility. Describe techniques to use at dawn, dusk, and night driving. Apply concepts of what to do when encountering driver who fails to use low beam head lights. Draw conclusions of what happens to traction during rain and snow, including hydroplaning. Demonstrate how to correct steering and braking if skidding or hydroplaning. Explain precautions for driving and maintaining control of vehicle in windy, wet and winter conditions, including extremely hot or cold environments and how they affect a driver or road conditions. Explain proper techniques and actions to take if tire, brakes, engine or steering fails. Explain what to do if loss of vision or vehicle fire. Explain what to do if four or two wheels are off the road and when to use an emergency swerve. Assess how to reduce vehicle damage caused by potholes. Explain what to do if entering curve too fast. Design an exact escape plan for a vehicle entering/sinking /submerged in water. Distinguish how to avoid or minimize, headon, side-impact and rear-end collisions, include immediate and follow up steps to take if collision occurs. Investigate your financial responsibility by law to have insurance and factors affecting cost of insurance. Apply concepts of how to adjust to city traffic, use IPDE process for city driving.
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Simulators and Extensive Driving
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Simulators and Extensive Driving Book Assignments
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Simulators and Extensive
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DK DE912.DK.4.8
Driving in Rural Areas
Understanding driving differences in rural road environments.
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DK DE912.DK.4.9
Driving on Highways
Understanding the differences and dangers of entering, exiting, and driving on highways.
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Explain how to use the 3 second following rule. Implement plan on how to avoid tailgating and conflicts with drivers and oncoming traffic. Analyze how far ahead to look, how to cover the brake and lane selection for city driving. Describe procedure for turning left or right from a one-way street and how to warn a driver going the wrong way. Describe elements of rural roads and the factors to consider safe speeds while driving on them. Identify traffic controls to use to inform, warn and regulate driving and hazards common in rural driving. Explain how the IPDE and zone control processes should be used and apply safety steps to handling curves, hills and intersections. Predict situations that would require greater following distances and when passing should never be attempted. Describe actions to take when being passed. Assess what to do when vehicles are driving slowly, there are animals on or alongside of roadway or railroad crossing hazards are present. Describe at least 2 actions you can take to allow hazards to separate when meeting oncoming traffic. Formulate safety precautions for mountain and desert driving. Explain difference between fully controlled and non-controlled access to highways. Compare 4 types of highway interchanges. Describe the actions, including speed considerations, you must take at entrance ramp, acceleration lane and merge area.
Driving
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Simulators and Extensive Driving
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Simulators and Extensive Driving
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VK DE912.VK.3.3
Buying and Maintaining a Vehicle
Understand aspects of buying, owning, leasing and maintaining a vehicle.
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1 week
Primary DK – DE912.DK.5.1 ALL standards apply
Planning your Travel
Understand how to plan, map, and organize traveling for local and long distance routes, along with equipment and vehicle preparations for such travel.
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Construct 4 possible entrance and exiting problems to highways. Explain how to apply IPDE process on Interstate Highway System, both entering and exiting. Assess advantages of using 3 or more second following distance on highway roads. Hypothesize how highway hypnosis and velocitation create risk for drivers. Explain procedures for safely pulling over to a shoulder on a highway. Explain situations, risks associated with toll plaza and what to do to reduce them. Identify and design a series of questions in deciding to buy a certain vehicle. Compare and contrast advantages and disadvantages of buying new and used vehicle. Identify safety features in a vehicle and the advantages of having them. Demonstrate understanding of vehicle battery electrical system, vehicle control system, cooling and lubricating systems. Infer where general maintenance fluids can be found and how to replace them. List 5 techniques for fuel efficient driving and recycling. Explain how cooling and lubricating systems operate in a vehicle and the importance of maintenance. Explain keyless entry and how satellites are used for vehicle and driving safety. Make observations on how driving a vehicle affects ozone layer and our environment. Explain how to reduce these effects as a driver. Create 2 questions to ask yourself each time you plan on making a short trip and 2 things that simplify a short trip.
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Primary DK DE912.DK.5.2 ALL Standards Apply
TESTING ROAD SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE POST TEST
-Perform DMV state test checkpoints and application of knowledge and skills. -Complete 25 question Post Test for District Evaluation.
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Practice using a GPS, navigation device to calculate, mileage, fuel cost, tolls for a long trip. Practice using a map, legend, key, index to calculate a trip. Create a checklist on how to prepare yourself and vehicle for a long trip. Explain how maneuvering a special vehicle is different than a passenger vehicle. Describe special equipment that may be needed when pulling a trailer or other special vehicle. • Road Signs review and General Knowledge Testing. Lab/BTW testing when appropriate. Preparation for District Post Test.
Test and Demonstration of Skills
STEP 1 – INSTRUCTIONAL PROPORTION % FOR ASSESSMENT FOR DATA WAREHOUSE Course/Term PR Object - # weeks/% of class Break down time covering Personal Driver Responsibilities Full Year 10 weeks/30% Semester 5.5 weeks/30%
SK Object - # weeks/% of class time covering Sign and Road Knowledge 5 weeks/15% 2.5 weeks/15%
DK Object - #weeks/% of class time covering Driving Knowledge and Application 12 weeks/35% 6 weeks/35%
VK Object - #weeks/% of class time covering Vehicle Knowledge and Application 7 weeks/20% weeks/20%
Blueprint Template Purpose of assessment:
Driver Education 1900300/1900310
Reporting categories: 1 Personal Driver Responsibilities 2 Sign and Road Knowledge 3 Driving Knowledge & Application 4 Vehicle Knowledge & Application Totals
Appoximate Times Item Point Values Reporting Standard or Benchmark Category (Broadest Level) (Instructional Level)
Percentage of instructional time: 30% 15% 35% 20%
Percentage of items by reporting category: 30% 15% 35% 20% 100%
Total # of Items for each category 7 4 9 5 25
Percentage Percentage Percentage of items by Number of Number of Number of of items by of items by DOK level 3- items for items for items for DOK level 1: DOK level 2: 4: DOK level 1: DOK level 2: DOK level 3-4: 10% 3 0 0 10% 10% 3 3 0 10% 20% 20% 3 5 5 10% 10% 3 3 5 10 10 10 100%
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20-30 min 6 points
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Item Type: Essay Response
Item Type: Performance Complexity: DOK Level 1 Task
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