WS Driving Collective
Learning Never Stops
Author: Wayne Smith
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Today’s young learner drivers grew up in a very different world from many of the instructors teaching them. Rather than labelling those differences, what might we learn by understanding the influences that shaped them?
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🟡 Building a Better Driving School · 8 min read Simple isn’t easy. Simple is smart. The world isn’t getting any simpler. If anything, it feels as though it’s becoming more complicated every year. Technology changes. Customers’ expectations change. The way we communicate changes. The way we run our businesses changes. Sometimes it feels as…
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🟢 Supporting a Learner Driver · 8 min read Supporting someone learning to drive isn’t about becoming their driving instructor. It’s about becoming the person who gives them the confidence to keep learning. Not long ago, one of my learners told me something that made me smile. Apparently, a grandparent had said: “I only needed…
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🟠 BECOMING A DRIVING INSTRUCTOR · 10 MIN READ I originally thought driving instruction might be something I could do until retirement. Looking back now, my only real regret is that I didn’t discover it sooner. I didn’t grow up wanting to become a driving instructor. It wasn’t some great career ambition I’d carried around for…
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We spend our working lives thinking about the person sitting beside us. Perhaps occasionally we need to think about the person sitting in our own seat too. When you’re a driving instructor, most of your working day is naturally focused on somebody else. Are they safe? Are they learning? Are they anxious? Did they understand…
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We’ve Been Here Before: Making AI Useful, One Small Step at a Time AI can do some extraordinary things. But perhaps the best place to start isn’t with what AI can do. It’s with something you’d like to make easier. When I was growing up, if you wanted to telephone somebody, you used the landline…
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🟡 Building a Better Driving School · 8 min read When I first became a driving instructor, being busy felt like success. These days, I measure success rather differently. When I became an ADI, we were emerging from the pandemic. It was an unusual time to start a driving school. Demand for lessons was high…
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Some of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned about teaching people to drive came from people who never sat in the passenger seat of a learner car. If you’d asked me years ago who had most influenced the way I teach, I’d probably have named a respected driving instructor or one of the mentors who…
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Passing your driving test is a huge achievement—but it’s not the end of your learning journey. Wayne Smith reflects on his own first solo drive and explains why the real education begins after you’ve passed.