Rider Choices inaugural Tribe Talk with MSF RiderCoaches, our mission is to enhance RiderCoach communications and develop an improvement culture within our community of Motorcycle Rider Educators. …
Tribe Talk – 21 March 2020
The Human Element of Riding
By Donald L. Green Bernt Speigel (2010) wrote in the preface of his book the Upper Half of the Motorcycle that motorcyclists are “thinking, acting, reacting” organisms with “the unique
What Causes Motorcycle Crashes?
As published in the American Motorcyclist Magazine March 2020, and Linked in January 2020. By Donald L. Green, January 6, 2020 When asking a motorcyclist why so many motorcycles are
Key Traits, Supporting Characteristics, and Responsibilities of a RiderCoach
Articles on Motorcycle Rider Education: Part XXIII – Key Traits, Supporting Characteristics, and Responsibilities of a RiderCoach Although there are numerous traits, characteristics, and responsibilities associated with being a RiderCoach, the
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RiderCoach Characteristics and Responsibilities
Articles on Motorcycle Rider Education: Part XXII – RiderCoach Characteristics and Responsibilities There is a continuing discussion by those who work in Rider’s Education about whether coaching is considered a
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How Perceptions Can Drive Learning
Perceptions can be a way of understanding or interpret something when it must do with other people or the environment where an action is taking place. When a person uses their ability to perceive it may influence how they coach another based on their basic needs, the five senses, goals and values, self-concept, orientation, motivation, previous experiences, and readiness to learn as recognized in another. …
Obstacles to Learning During Rider Education
Some of these factors that reside in the feelings of students are: 1) perceiving unfair treatment; 2) impatient to move on to more interesting topics; 3) worry or lack of focus; 4) discomfort physically from illness or fatigue; 5) apathy because of poor instruction; and 6) the anxiety of learning. …
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The Demonstrated-Performance Method
Probably the oldest technique for teaching, in all of history, is the demonstrated-performance technique. Some refer to this technique as modeling – making a good example being a child who learns to do something by having the behavior or action “modeled” to them by an adult. …
The Learning Process
Articles on Motorcycle Rider Education: Part I – The Learning Process
What, Why, and How?
In the never-ending desire to learn more and share with others, I will be discussing a few introspects in the next several weeks associated with being a coach (instructor) in motorcycle rider education. …
Learning Characteristics
Articles on Motorcycle Rider Education: Part II – Learning Characteristics
To continue from Part I: The Learning Process, I would like to discuss the characteristics of learning; however, it may be important to briefly discuss why students may expect a pedagogical learning experience when it may be detrimental to their learning. …
