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- Driver Educator Recertification
Thursday, June 4, 1:00pm-5:00pm : Workshop, Cost: $20
Seminar to Develop a New Mexico Curriculum on Distracted Driving
(4 CEUs for driver educators).
It’s no secret that the problem of distracted driving has become epidemic in this country. New Mexico’s rules for driver education now specify “impairments and distractions” as areas of required education. Studies show that drivers—all of us— are aware that most distractions make driving much more dangerous, and yet we continue to engage in these behaviors.
This seminar will draw on New Mexico’s professional talent to develop a short, portable and persuasive unit on distracted driving for driver educators, using the most up to date information. Organizers will provide a curriculum expert, background materials and four hours of driver CE credit for the New Mexico driver education professionals who participate in this curriculum development workshop.
Who: Driver Education Teachers, Driving Safety Instructors and DWI School facilitators, bring your best ideas, short video, website, handout or other idea for inclusion in this Distracted Driving Curriculum. Online access to the internet will be available, so bring your wireless-equipped laptop if you like. We will also provide a computer attached to a projector to review online video, websites and other materials.
Once the curriculum is developed, it will be available on the internet for anyone who wants to download it.
This Seminar will provide 4.0 Continuing Education Credits for NM Driver instructors. Download registration form here.
Friday, June 5: Presentations Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm, Cost: $30
8 CEU Hours in two 4-hour blocks
This is the yearly recertification workshop and class for New Mexico's driver educators. Click here for agenda. Download registration form here.
- June 19: DWI School Facilitator Training
Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm
Cost: Free
This class will help prepare new facilitators to teach in DWI Schools. Your role is to provide support by helping the
students to honestly evaluate their drinking and driving behavior and ways to make positive changes through the
development of an effective Personal Action Plan. Download registration form here.
- July 13-17: Driver Instructor Certification
Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm each day
Cost: $250
This 40-hour course provides instruction strategies for teaching driver education in the classroom and behind the
wheel. It is mandatory for anyone who wants to teach driver education in commercial driver education scholls or in
the public schools. College credit is available.
PLEASE NOTE: The new rules in New Mexico for driver education instructors have combined the Classroom
Curriculum and Behind the Wheel instruction into a single, one week, 40-hour class. Applicants to become driver
education instructors are required to take the entire 40-hour course.
Instructors currently teaching Classroom Curriculum or Behind the Wheel on a training waiver are required to take this
class(es). Current waivers will expire 10 days after the last day of the class. Download registration form here.
- Teaching Techniques
Friday August 7, 2009,
8:00am-5:00pm
Cost: $25
This class will help prepare new teachers to create effective classroom environments, presentations, and teaching plans. It is mandatory for the following instructors (who have not already taken the class):
- Driver Education instructors who do not have a teaching license (see Rule 18.20.3.18F)
Driving Safety Instructors (see Rule 18.20.8.16F; this may be waived with documentation of a teaching certificate.)
- All instructors, including DWI school facilitators, may take this class to satisfy 8 hours of continuing education.
Download registration form here.
5. New Mexico Traffic Safety Summit
Bridging the Gap - Building Partnerships to Save Lives
August 18-19-20, 2009
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August 18: Focus on Tribal Issues,
August 19-20: Solving NM Safety Issues through Partnerships
There is no fee to attend this conference but you must register to attend. Registration is limited to 250. Register Online or download registration form here-- fax, mail or send by email -- there are two gray buttons at the bottom of the first page-- use these to email us your registration and print out a copy for yourself.
Safety Awards for outstanding traffic safety programs will be presented at the Summit. Click here to nominate a program for a safety award. The deadline to nominate a program for an award has been extended to April 30, 2009.
Isleta Hotel is kid-friendly, with a childcare activity center for ages 3-12, and for teens and adults, there’s bowling, Lazer Tag and an arcade. Bring the family! Location: Isleta Hotel,
11000 Broadway SE, Albuquerque, NM 87105. Guest Rooms: King or Queen: $80.00.
Reservations must be made by August 4th, 2009, toll free 877-747-5382 or locally 505-724-3800.
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for continuing education? Take a look at our calendar for information about traffic safety related events in New Mexico, or email Carolyn Johnson to add your
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The Institute of Public Law, University of New Mexico School of Law
MSC11 6060, 1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
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