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Parent Taught Driver Education Program Guide
TDLR Parent Taught Driver Education Program Guide Texas Parent Taught Driver Education (PTDE) is a state-approved driver education program where the parent (or step-parent, grandparent, foster parent, or legal guardian) teaches their teen how to drive. Parent Taught Driver Education has the same driver education content, standards, and requirements as driver education taken through a licensed driving school or a Texas public high school. Today in Texas, Parent Taught Driver Education is a very popular alternative to commercial driving schools. The Texas PTDE Program is regulated by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). To get started, a Texas parent must register for the Texas PTDE Program on the TDLR website, and purchase the TDLR Parent Taught Driver Education Program Guide. The Program Guide outlines Parent Taught Driver Education in Texas and includes the important forms that a Texas parent or guardian must fill out and submit to a local Texas DPS Office when their teen applies for a Texas Learner License and Texas Provisional Driver License. The DPS Office will ask to review a parent’s Parent Taught Driver Education Program Guide Receipt. A teen won’t be able to get their Texas Learner License or Texas Provisional Driver License without presenting their PTDE Program Guide Receipt. In addition, a parent and teen must choose and purchase a TDLR-Approved Parent Taught Driver Education Course, like The Online Driving Professor’s Texas Teen Parent Taught Driver Education Course. How to Determine Eligibility for the Texas PTDE Program
How To Register and Purchase the TDLR Parent Taught Driver Education (PTDE) Program GuideParents can purchase the TDLR PTDE Program Guide on the TDLR Website. The Program Guide costs $20 and is emailed to parents within 24 hours. Parents should check their spam and junk folders if they do not see the Guide in their inbox after purchase. When registering on the Program Guide Order Form, a parent must enter their student’s full legal name carefully. Correcting a student’s name after registration will require written consent. After receiving the TDLR email, parents must download the Program Guide and read it over carefully. Parents must keep their PTDE Program Guide Purchase Receipt. This is a required document when a teen applies for a Texas Learner License and Texas Provisional License. How to Purchase a TDLR-Approved Parent Taught Driver Education CourseA list of TDLR-approved Parent Taught Course Providers, like Online Driving Professor, can be found on the TDLR website here. A parent may begin teaching the course after receiving the TDLR PTDE Program Guide and the course material from an approved Parent Taught Course Provider, like The Online Driving Professor.What PTDE Program Guide Forms Are Needed When Applying for a Texas Learner License and Provisional License?When applying for a Texas Learner License and Texas Provisional License, a parent-instructor must present the receipt for purchase of the TDLR PTDE Program Guide. When applying for a Texas Provisional License, a parent-instructor must complete the 30 Hour Behind-the-Wheel Practice Log, found on page 11 of the PTDE Program Guide. A parent must record their teen’s 30 hours of additional adult-supervised driving of which 10 hours is driving at night. This log is a required document when applying for a Texas Provisional Driver License. Let’s review again the Parent Responsibilities in the Texas Parent Taught Driver Education Program
The Online Driving Professor offers the highest quality online Texas Teen Parent Taught Driver Education course. O ur students and parents rate the course highly for quality content, easy to understand, easy to navigate, cost effective, and highly flexible. You can learn driver education on your schedule and on any device – laptop, phone, and tablet. Sign-up today! How do I get a drivers ed packet from Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation?You can order the program guide packet from the TDLR and submit the mandatory $20 state fee online here. The PTDE program guide packet contains forms that you'll fill out and submit to your local DPS office when you get your permit and license, and the DPS will also ask to see your PTDE program guide packet receipt.
Where can I find Texas PTDE program guide packet information?To request your guide, you have two options, online or by mail. Online: Fill out the Texas Request for Parent Taught Driver Education Program Guide on the TDLR website. Here you may select to have the PTDE program guide emailed or mailed to yourself, and you can pay the $20 fee with a credit card.
How do you get the aceable packet?Once you've gotten to the purchase confirmation page, there will be a link to download your packet. TDLR also emails you a receipt which also contains the link to download the packet right away. If you requested for TDLR to mail the packet to you, it takes about 2-3 weeks to receive it.
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