The German Road Safety Council, supported by the German Social Accident Insurance, develops a comprehensive set of materials for teachers of vocational schools every year. The materials focus on a different topic related to the prevention of road accidents each year. The set includes, amongst others, a power point presentation, Read more…
Every year, the Finnish Road Safety Council (Liikenneturva) offers teachers further education in traffic safety, in which teachers review the basics of traffic safety education and can try out different action models. Teachers are also offered an opportunity to network with other teachers and share good practice. The Finnish Road Read more…
Teachers in preschool and basic education in Portugal have access to road safety training as part of systematic lifelong learning on the road safety education competency framework. This includes ‘training of trainers’ which, by the end of the programme, enables teachers to train other teachers. They also have online support Read more…
The Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge (VSV) provides free courses on traffic safety and mobility education to both teachers and those studying to become a teacher at pre-primary and primary schools as well as those teaching physical education at secondary schools in Flanders. They furthermore support them with information through Read more…
The Transport Research Centre (CDV) in the Czech Republic has developed guidelines for traffic education in kindergartens consisting of five chapters: child collisions; the psychometric competence level of pre-school children; good practices related to children in traffic; and kindergarten traffic education in the context of the national curriculum framework. In Read more…
Fundación MAPFRE has developed guides for teachers in Spain. These tools aim to help and guide teachers in successfully carrying out lessons, by providing teaching guidelines as well as the learning goals and content, the methodology, resources and evaluation assessments for the activities. The guides are adapted to different age Read more…
The Curriculum for Excellence is the philosophy underpinning the Scottish Education System and, to ensure credibility within the learning and teaching profession, Road Safety Scotland has aligned all its resources with it. A guide for teachers provides an overview of the available resources and how they support the curriculum. Road Read more…
The Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge (VSV) promotes the use of traffic working groups at schools in Flanders. Such working groups consist of teachers and parents, with one person functioning as contact point. It is however not uncommon that a prevention advisor acts as contact person for traffic safety at Read more…
The Danish Ministry of Education recommends appointing a traffic contact teacher at all schools that teach pupils aged 6-16 years old. They are also encouraged to participate in the traffic contact teachers’ courses organised by the Danish Road Safety Council (Sikker Trafik), which are held yearly for new and ‘old’ Read more…
The German Federal Highway Institute BASt offers a guideline which includes best practice examples for the development of safe routes to school plans. The guideline is directed to parents as well as school managers and teachers, and contains useful advice related to the process of developing, implementing and evaluating safe Read more…