Expanding your teaching toolkit doesn’t mean abandoning your archetype or teaching style. It simply means having more ways to reach your students.

I experience this often when training teachers. Sometimes I can tell—just by the look on students’ faces—that something isn’t landing. When that happens, I pause and ask myself: How else might this land?

I had this exact experience recently while teaching a 300-hour program. We were discussing range of motion in the hip joint and why it varies so widely. I could tell the information wasn’t clicking for everyone. So I stopped, reframed the language, and approached the same concept from a different angle—without changing the content itself.

And suddenly, it landed.

That moment is archetypal teaching in action. The knowledge didn’t change—only the way it was delivered did.