VADETS is a Professional Driver Education Association with the mission to improve the quality of driver education and provide effective instruction to new drivers in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The VADETS membership is drawn from over 2,500 driver education professionals who teach in public, private, and driver training schools.
We hope you find the information and links useful in your quest to provide young drivers with the skills needed to drive a motor vehicle safely.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact us.
VADETS 2023
Virtual Conference will be
Tuesday, October 3, 2023.
Click the "Join Us" link to register.
Driven To Protect Discovery Hub See the link below to see an overview about the Driven to Protect Discovery Hub: https://youtu.be/Hg9MLhkoBV8. This is a great way for educators to learn more about their online resources. Download social media content from Driven To Protect for Teen/Driver safety week. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Southeast Region SERADTSEA Annual Conference February 22 – 24, 2024 Join 350 driver educators, driving schools, and leaders in driver education at our annual conference. Learn about new products, services and organizations that are dedicated to keeping our nation's drivers safe. Registration opens in October. Williamsburg Woodlands Hotel & Suites ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
Poster, Bumper Sticker, License Plate ContestThe Virginia Association of Driver Education and Traffic Safety (VADETS) is sponsoring a 2023 poster, bumper sticker, and license plate contest. The contest will be judged at the VADETS State Conference in July, 2023. The theme is general traffic safety and students should select issues or topics they feel are important to driver education. Each school should conduct its own contest and teachers may submit the best three (3) entries in each category at the conference. All submissions for contests are due 6/1/2023. Questions may be submitted to VADETSinfo@gmail.com. Teachers can submit a picture of posters, bumper stickers & license plates to this Google Folder (name file with student's name) and bring them to the conference or mail them to: VADETS PO Box 1 Powhatan, VA 23139 | 0 TEACHER OF THE YEAR Congratulations to our 2023 Driver Education Teachers of the Year! Classroom TOY: Classroom TOY:
In-Car TOY: For information about Teacher of the Year and to nominate a teacher for next school year, please visit this link to download and email (vadetsinfo@gmail.com) or mail the completed form to: VADETS Teacher of the Year Committee PO Box 1 Powhatan, Va 23139 TOY nominations are due 5/1/2023. | Curriculum WorkbooksThe study guide/workbook provides the framework for the content in the Curriculum and is also designed to assist students in learning safety concepts. The Virginia Driver Education Curriculum has been updated to meet the 2022 Driver Education Standards. These will be posted on an Orph site and information on accessing it will be sent. The updated site does have worksheets for the first 2 modules. Hopefully by the time teachers complete those modules, the updated workbooks will be available. If not, we will continue to post worksheets for each module on the orph site.
TBD + 20% Shipping and Handling Each case contains 50 study guide/workbooks Workbooks shipped in multiples of 50 only For additional information email vadetsworkbooks@yahoo.com |