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. …
How Riders Learn
Articles on Motorcycle Rider Education: Part IV – How Riders Learn
How Riders Learn
As discussed previously, learning is a result of perceptions that reach the brain through one or more of our senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste). …
Learning Levels
There are several different levels of learning and each with its own characteristics. This article will discuss four specifics types: rote, understanding, application, and correlation which may be considered as segments along a continuum or the depth of learning. …
