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Dialogue Style

Volunteer Trainers use “open” questions

A ratio of 1:2 or 1:3 volunteer works well

At gaining children’s attention

Helps the children to make their own decisions

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Safe Places

Foundation skill on which the other skills are built

To avoid dangerous locations

Training allows children to recognise safe and dangerous places.

Children then use the knowledge to identify dangerous places in unfamiliar surroundings

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Introduction to Safe Places

Two errors children make:1.Cross diagonally2.Choose unsafe areas where

their view of oncoming traffic is obscured

Dangerous places include:Junctions,Hills,bends,corner,

parked cars and street furniture Skill one: Safe Places

4 Weeks

Skill Two: Parked Cars 4 weeks

Skill Three Junctions 4 Weeks

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Overall Aim

To help children to work out safe strategies for themselves

To use open-ended questions

Prompts instead of rulesLearning is promoted

through a natural, indirect style.

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Safe Places Training

1.You can transfer ideas

2. Dialogue Style is Important.

3.Get the children to verbalise their ideas.

4.They are more willing to discuss

5.It generates disagreement

6.Develops a wider understanding of traffic so they can transfer ideas to other situations.

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Trainers Role

Encourage children to make suggestions Explain their suggestions to each other Question or comment on each other’s

suggestions/explanations Solve the problem together by coming to a

group decision

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Achieving successful Communication Always encourage the children to suggest

their own answers Make sure they explain their ideas and

don’t just say “no”or “yes”. Help by drawing their attention to points

they may have missed by using prompts Be positive, don’t criticise their ideas