The LEARN! Key Principles

The LEARN! Key Principles set out below are 17 recommendations that should be implemented in all European countries in order to ensure that everyone – especially children and youngsters – receive good quality traffic safety and mobility education.

Click on the Key Principles below for more information as well as inspirational best practice examples that illustrate how these principles can be applied in practice.

This online version of the Key Principles (below the download links) contains additional best practice examples as well as several extended versions of best practice examples found in the PDF version.

WHY TRAFFIC SAFETY AND MOBILITY EDUCATION IS IMPORTANT
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ENSURE THE RIGHT TO RECEIVE
TRAFFIC SAFETY AND MOBILITY EDUCATION

All Children

All children and youngsters should receive high quality traffic safety and mobility education with continuity and progression

Curriculum

Integrate traffic safety and mobility education in the curricula for schools, including a minimum amount of teaching hours

Goals

Set strategic, tactical and operational goals for traffic safety and mobility education

Sufficient Resources

Allocate sufficient resources for traffic safety and mobility education

ENGAGE AND SUPPORT SCHOOLS

Engage and Support

Engage and support school management

Traffic Safety & Mobility Policy

Motivate schools to have a traffic safety and mobility policy

Contact Teacher

Appoint a traffic contact teacher at school

Support Teachers

Strengthen teachers’ competence and support them

ENSURE HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION

Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes and Motivations

Ensure that traffic safety and mobility education is about knowledge, skills, attitudes and motivations as well as training in traffic

Up-To-Date

Keep traffic safety and mobility education up to date

Quality Standards

Use Quality Standards

Evaluations

Undertake tests, process and/or outcome evaluations

Assessments

Assess pupils and let pupils evaluate themselves

FACILITATE FRAMEWORK CONDITIONS

Interdisciplinary Material

Use interdisciplinary material as a means to teach traffic safety and mobility education

Educate Student Teachers

Educate student teachers about traffic safety and mobility education during their training

Follow-Up

Follow-up to ensure traffic safety and mobility education is taught

INVOLVE ALL RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS

Involve Everyone

Involve pupils, students, parents and all relevant stakeholders