In Poland, road safety at schools is taught mainly by the techniques teacher. These teachers are either alumni of pedagogical studies with techniques specialization (which also includes elements of road safety) or alumni of other studies. The latter group should therefore also do a post-graduate course in ‘techniques with elements Read more…
The Finnish Road Safety Council (Liikenneturva) offers traffic safety materials and action models (plans for teachers that include goals, instructions and lists of materials) that have been integrated into various subjects. An “annual clock” tool has been developed as a planning aid for schools, teachers and students to plan traffic Read more…
In Portugal, traffic safety and mobility education is included in the lessons of other subjects as well. As part of lessons on citizenship and development, pupils in the first and second grade learn to apply road safety norms, such as how to walk and cross roads safely, as well as Read more…
Working with curriculum specialists, Road Safety Scotland investigated opportunities to embed road safety within traditional subjects in the curriculum. Science lessons were developed which focused on speed and provided reaction timers to local road safety teams for use in schools. Road Safety Scotland also developed a physics experiment kit, also Read more…
Every year, the Automobile Association of the Republic of Srpska, together with other road safety stakeholders, organises the national road safety contest “Children in traffic”. The contest includes a theoretical test assessing the pupil’s knowledge of the road safety rules as well as a practical test in which the pupils’ Read more…
The Norwegian Council for Road Safety’s Model for Behaviour Modification (see this example as part of Principle #11) promotes the so-called 5E model, which is a tool to support teachers in planning, implementation and evaluation of learning for the actively participating pupil. It is called the 5E model because all five Read more…
All the teaching materials provided free-of-charge to the schools by the Danish Road Safety Council (Sikker Trafik) have been evaluated to make sure that they meet the national goals for traffic safety education and have the desired effect. As a minimum, the evaluations include an online mobile survey to be Read more…
The Road Safety Framework Fund is designed to promote and encourage further partnership to ensure the delivery of road safety commitments in Scotland, including through education. There are two rounds of funding each year. The scheme developers can bid for funding and, as part of that, they must include plans Read more…
The knowledge institute CROW developed a traffic education checklist that assesses certain elements of traffic education interventions in 10 steps. These steps consist of assessing the problem analysis, target group specification, educational goals, didactical principles, content of the material, assessment and evaluation during the intervention, the manual, the implementation, process Read more…
The Norwegian Council for Road Safety (NCRS; Trygg Trafikk) noted a need for gaining a better understanding about which training programmes produce a positive impact in the short and long term and what elements contribute to this effectiveness. However, a number of potential issues need to be taken into account. Read more…