Check out your active learning roadblock results!
You're riding as a:
Curious Cyclist
As a newer instructor, you are doing your best to keep your balance. But learning the rules of the road can be tough, especially when your capacity to carry more is limited.
🚧 Your roadblock is overload from opportunity. You’re excited about every new strategy, tool, and technique, but trying to implement everything at once can leave you scattered, overwhelmed, and exhausted.
🚲 The best way to protect your energy is to pace your growth. Progress doesn’t require perfection or speed. Instead, it requires focus, intention, and space to refine what you’re already learning.
Being a cyclist in the teaching traffic jam can be tough. You are managing your workload, keeping up with constant changes, and learning new tools everyday, all while weaving between more experienced educators, student vehicles and outside pressure to pedal faster! You are thinking that active learning could be the best vehicle to transport you but you haven’t taken it out for a test drive just yet.
Your greatest opportunity for success is to approach active learning at a sustainable pace.
There is no rush. Your career will include many semesters of teaching and it is best to set a solid foundation in active learning so that you can continue to ride the teaching highway for years to come.
Key Characteristics of a Curious Cyclist:
Does this sound like you?
You are eager to learn as much about teaching and learning as you can and grow your teaching toolbox.
You love the challenge of learning something new and want to implement all of your ideas as soon as humanely possible.
You know there are ways to improve your teaching practice, but you can feel overwhelmed with managing all of the ideas, tools and techniques available.
p.s. If you are like, “No way, not me!” no problem. Just head over to this page of all the results and choose one that fits better. We are all unique individuals!
Three strategies to ride with confidence as the Curious Cyclist:
Take it slow
There is no rush! You don’t have to implement every teaching tool by next semester. There is time to set a foundation and gain confidence. Mastery happens when you implement fewer strategies more deeply, instead of chasing every new idea at once.
⚡️Action step: Start a "someday/maybe" file in your organizational system. When you have an idea, an email, an article that sparks your interest, stash it here. You can always revisit it when the time is right.
Lean into kindness
As a new educator, you have a unique ability to change the “nurses eat our young” mentality. Instead, you can model kindness, empathy and support. Growth in teaching is a long game, and self-compassion keeps you in it.
⚡️Action step: Look for opportunities in your syllabus or class welcome message to show your students that you are approachable and welcoming.
Embrace your unique skills
You are not doing this teaching thing “wrong.” In fact, your fresh perspective and open-minded approach is optimal for the change we need in nursing education.
⚡️Action step: Identify one natural strength you bring (humor, storytelling, tech-savviness, empathy) and intentionally build your next activity around it.
What's next ...
Want to know EXACTLY how to implement these strategies?
There is an short email series about how to find find direction while navigating the road as a curious cyclist.
The first step is arriving in your inbox shortly so watch for an email with the [🚲} in the subject line.
See you there!