Jesse Florence, from Abergele, brought a professional driving background into his instructor training and successfully passed ADI Part 3 in Rhyl in September 2024. He is now a fully qualified instructor teaching automatic driving lessons.
Before becoming a driving instructor, Jesse worked as both a bus driver and an HGV driver. He therefore came into instructor training with plenty of experience on the road, but teaching someone else to drive required a very different set of skills.
Professional driving experience can provide a strong foundation of road awareness and planning, but ADI Part 3 is about much more than demonstrating good driving. An instructor must be able to understand what a pupil needs, manage risk and help learning take place.
Jesse worked with Marcus to develop those instructional skills and learn how to turn his own driving knowledge into effective, pupil-centred driving lessons.
In September 2024, Jesse successfully passed his ADI Part 3 in Rhyl, completing the final qualifying test and becoming a fully qualified Approved Driving Instructor.
Knowing how to drive professionally and knowing how to teach someone else are two different things. Jesse's training focused on developing the instructional skills needed to bridge that gap.
Jesse came into ADI training after working as both a bus driver and HGV driver. His experience gave him a strong understanding of the road, observation, planning and dealing with different traffic situations.
Becoming an instructor meant moving from making driving decisions himself to helping a pupil understand, practise and eventually make those decisions independently.
Jesse's training focused on lesson planning, risk management, questioning, feedback and adapting the lesson to suit the pupil, bringing those skills together in real driving lessons.
Jesse successfully passed his ADI Part 3 in Rhyl in September 2024, completing the qualification process and becoming a fully qualified Approved Driving Instructor.
Jesse brought considerable road experience from bus and HGV driving into his training, then developed the additional teaching skills needed to successfully complete ADI Part 3.
Jesse is now working as a fully qualified Approved Driving Instructor, teaching learners in an automatic car.
His professional driving background remains useful, but his ADI training added a completely different skill set: helping learners understand what is happening, make their own decisions and gradually become safe and independent drivers.
Jesse's journey shows that becoming an instructor can be a natural next career for an experienced professional driver, while still requiring plenty of new learning along the way.
ADI Part 3 is the instructional ability test and the final qualifying test required to become an Approved Driving Instructor.
A DVSA examiner observes a real driving lesson and assesses the instructor across 17 competencies covering lesson planning, risk management and teaching and learning strategies.
See how ADI Part 3 works →Jesse arrived with professional driving experience from buses and HGVs, but becoming an ADI required him to develop a new set of skills around teaching, learning and managing risk with a pupil.
Training with Marcus is tailored around what you already bring to the process and the areas you need to develop before your next ADI test.
Whether you already drive professionally or are coming from a completely different career, talk to Marcus about what is involved in becoming an Approved Driving Instructor and where to begin.
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