The type of person who makes an outstanding instructor needs to have the following traits:
Patience: to teach other people the skill of driving to others you need to be understanding patient as someone that gets frustrated or annoyed will knock the confidence of the learner driver.
Friendly: You should be a people person and enjoying meeting new people and care about your pupils.
Organised: As a driving instructor you expected to organise your own diary and arrive on time for your driving lessons and there is nothing more frustrating for pupils, and their parents if an instructor is always late for the driving lesson.
Team Player: At Teendrive we have an outstanding team that consistently get the best out of their pupils and we have one of the highest pass rates in the area.
Good Communicator: Instructors must be able to communicate instructions to their pupil and adapt the style of teaching to the pupil that they are teaching.
Professional: Driving Instructors are expected to treat their pupils with respect and courtesy, they are also expected to arrive to lessons on time, with a clean and tidy car and smart appearance.
The training can take around 4 months to get on the road earning money.
Yes, we offer a Fast Track option where you can be on teaching with *4-6 weeks and this course is the same price as the standard ADI course.
Yes, but you can only teach automatic driving lessons.
Fee type / Cost
ADI part 1 test = £81
ADI part 2 test = £111
ADI part 3 test = £111
We will deliver the training to suit your availability.
With the current hourly rate for instructors been around £30 a hour the average instructor earns around £60,000 Gross a year.
Our driving instructors are all self-employed.
Our Instructor’s receive 4 weeks Free franchise weeks over the course of 12 months.
Yes, and your car will need to be modified to have dual controls fitted.
The qualities needed to make a good driving instructor are patience, good communications skills and been able to adapt the driving lessons to suit the pupils needs. Been always professional, arriving on time, been in a clean car and be of smart appearance.
If you would like more information about training to be a driving instructor, send us a message here.
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