Overview of this session

2. Overview of this session • Why teach Traffic Safety Education (TSE)? • How to teach TSE • An overview of Kids On The Move • Kids On The Move and the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) • Working Kids On The Move into your program • Conclusion

3. 1. Why teach TSE? Victorian unintentional injury deaths for children aged 5 to 12 years of age, 2000-2003

4. 1. Why teach TSE? Serious injuries and fatalities by road user group for children aged 5 to 12 years of age, 2001-2005 Victoria

5. 1. Why teach TSE? • Primary school aged children are at significant risk when using the transport system • Safe road use behaviour develops over time and needs to be constantly practised and reinforced in a range of different travel contexts • All members of the school and general community share responsibility for the safety of children when travelling • There is a duty of care as we encourage children more to use active transport – eg. walking, cycling – when travelling to and from school, it is essential they can do so safely

6. 2. How to teach TSE • Research shows that TSE requires continuous, age appropriate and sequential education across year levels • It needs a combination of parents/carers and teachers working together to provide experiences in the classroom and in real traffic environments • The Traffic Safety Education Strategy recommends a minimum level of TSE – Prep to Year 2, Years 6 and 7, and Year 10 – in recognition of the demands on curriculum and classroom time • In primary schools use Kids On The Move and other TSE programs and resources

7. 3. An overview of Kids On The Move The Kids On The Move resource contains 3 books and a DVD video

8. 3. An overview of Kids On The Move Book 1 contains ideas for taking a whole school approach to improve road safety for students

9. 3. An overview of Kids On The Move • Rationale for TSE • Overview of Kids On The Move • Kids On The Move and the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) • Guidelines for conducting TSE activities • Ideas for whole school community approaches

10. 3. An overview of Kids On The Move Book 2 contains a mix of classroom and practical activities for teachers of VELS levels 1 and 2, focusing on key pedestrian and passenger safety issues

11. 3. An overview of Kids On The Move • 4 Modules: • Roads, Vehicles and Traffic • Stop, Look, Listen and Think • Pedestrian Safety • Passenger Safety • Within each module there are core and enrichment activities, including take-home activity sheets • Activities include components for in the classroom, exploring the local area and things to do at home

12. 3. An overview of Kids On The Move Book 3 contains a mix of classroom and practical activities for teachers of VELS levels 4 and 5, focusing on key cycling, pedestrian and public transport safety issues

13. 3. An overview of Kids On The Move • 4 Modules: • Why road safety matters • Pedestrian Safety • Cycling • Public Transport • Within each module there are core and enrichment activities, including take-home activity sheets • Activities include components for in the classroom, exploring the local area and things to do at home

14. 3. An overview of Kids On The Move A child’s world of traffic is DVD video designed to educate parents/carers of children in Prep to Year 2 to the developmental issues that put children at risk when near traffic

15. 4. Kids On The Move and the VELS • The VELS includes standards at six levels which are broadly associated with the years of schooling from Prep to Year 10. Kids On The Move focuses on: • VELS Levels 1 and 2 (students in Prep – Year 2) • VELS Levels 4 and 5 (specifically, students in Years 5, 6 and 7) • Traffic safety education fits well within the VELS three interrelated strands of learning skills, knowledge and behaviours in: • Physical, Personal and Social Learning • Discipline-based Learning • Interdisciplinary Learning.

16. 4. Kids On The Move and the VELS • Within the Physical, Personal and Social Learning strand TSE relates most to the following domains and dimensions:

17. 4. Kids On The Move and the VELS • From within the Discipline Based Learningstrand TSE concepts can be taught and explored – eg. • Mathematical skills can be drawn upon to develop the skills of estimation, stopping distances, spatial relations • English skills can be developed through reading, understanding and recognition of rules, advice, signs and road markings

18. 4. Kids On The Move and the VELS • Through the Interdisciplinary Learning strand skills can be enhanced for listening, viewing and responding, presenting, investigating and designing, producing, analysing and evaluating and thinking • These are important skills for decision making and problem solving in relation to safe travel

19. 5. Other resources and programs • Slideshow with images of traffic signs and scenes is available to download from: • www.arrivealive.vic.gov.au • www.vicroads.vic.gov.au • Kids On The Move poster

20. 5. Other resources and programs • RACV Street Scene • Metlink Travel On • Victoria Police Youth Resource Officers • Bike Ed • School Travel Planning • Walking School Bus

21. 5. Working Kids On The Move into your program • Spend some time looking through the book relevant to your class • Think about how the modules and activities link to other units and work you have planned • Discuss when and how you could include modules and activities into your class program • Report back to the group

22. 6. Conclusion • Obtaining more copies of the Kids On The Move resource – contact the VicRoads Bookshop Tel: 9854 2782 • You may be contacted in the future to get feedback on the resource and to find out how you have used it • Any questions?