NAME:
Mr. Vonner
SCHOOL:
Milan High School
CLASS:
Driver Education
SCHOOL PHONE:
(731) 686-0841, Fax (731) 686-9829
Mr. Vonner has taught driver education at MHS since 2005, born in Milan, TN
atrended Gibson County Training School-Polk Clark, has been certified to
teach since August, 1973. He is a 1973 graduate of the University of
Illinois. He retired from a national youth organization in 1997, having
worked for them nearly twenty years in management and supervisory
positions.
Mr. Vonner has taught and coached in public, private and specialized schools
in various positions to elementary, middle, high school and undergraduate
college students in different states since 1973. He holds a professional
teaching license in Tennessee and a teaching license (inactive) in Illinois.
He has taught at Milan High School since August, 2005.
Mr. Vonner has taught over seven hundred students to become safe and
responsible drivers at Milan High School; more than ten thousand over his
career. He emphasizes defensive driving techniques in his teachings and
believes that defensive driving is the basis for reducing the chance of
getting into an automobile collison. Mr. Vonner believes, "when driving, one
not only drives for self, but each person has to drive from other drivers'
perspectives as well." Hence, to be a good driver is to be a defensive
driver.
Mr. Vonner is certified to administer written and driver's license skill test
to qualified students through the Tennessee Department of Safety, Cooperative
Driver Testing Program where dozens at MHS has benefitted from this
collaboration.
The mission for MHS driver education is to develop safe,
responsible and conscientious young drivers who use acquired skills to
prevent collisions, make wise decisions and, become good citizens and
productive members of society.