Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, 2000, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Paper

This paper describes a recently piloted program to provide professional development for trainee teachers to include Traffic Safety Education (TSE) in school programs. It includes cooperation between three agencies: the University, the Department of Employment, Education and Training and VicRoads. The program targets two groups: - graduate diploma of education students - the schools in which they do their teaching practice. The program shows how student teachers become mentors for the target schools by: - undergoing certification of 2 days training in Bike Ed - completing 2 days Curriculum training including: - rationale for TSE - integrating traffic safety into the school curriculum - developing a unit of work using VicRoads resources. - delivery of the TSE Units the students have developed in selected schools - evaluation of the program - follow up of the student teachers in the school of their first appointment.