Peer Discussion and Active Learning
The workshop is based on an 'active learning' approach which requires interaction between all of the participants and facilitators in order to run successfully. This active involvement in the learning process is a different approach to a facilitator delivering the content of the workshop and the delegates passively receiving the information.
Throughout the workshop activities, the facilitators need to dedicate enough time to group discussion. Most of the activities within the workshop present a problem or perspective for the young drivers to discuss and come to a conclusion, guided by the facilitator.
This discussion (which involves participants both contributing and listening) is how the learning outcomes of the workshop are delivered. The discussions engage the participants in problem solving, and get them to apply what they have just learnt or a newly-considered perspective back to their own circumstances. In this way the workshop can encourage participants to question their own assumptions and goals for driving and how this affects their safety, as well as their current practices.
By using their own experiences as a basis for these discussions, participants can also develop strategies for safer driving and understand what the barriers are to put them in place. By then sharing these barriers with the group and facilitators, solutions to overcoming those barriers can also be suggested.
For example, through discussion a participant could realise that they were being asked to do much more unnecessary driving than colleagues and that this was due to poor scheduling within their team. They may identify that discussion with their manager might be the first step to overcome that.
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