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How to Create a Classroom That’s a Safe Space for Failure

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Over the last five years, I have worked hard to teach my students that failure is a gift. This isn’t a new idea, but we still struggle with the idea that failure is a necessary component of success. Embracing failure can seem counterintuitive to students. They are loud, chaotic, and full of failure and growth.

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Will Existing Mental Models Threaten Post-pandemic Progress in Education?

Catlin Tucker

Failure to identify and name the mental models driving our actions and decisions will undermine any effort to make long-term change in a system. However, these beliefs about learning may stand in stark contrast to the mental models people have constructed based on their expeirences in school 10, 20, or 30 years ago.

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How and When to Give Feedback

Catlin Tucker

Enhances Self-Efficacy Process feedback can bolster students’ self-belief and confidence. When they receive feedback that acknowledges their effective strategies and effort, it reinforces the belief that they can succeed. This ensures that they comprehend the destination or desired result of the activity or assignment at hand.

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There’s No Easy Protocol for Handling Classroom Conflict. We Must Challenge Ourselves.

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I felt like a failure. I also turned to a different kind of professional reading that shaped my beliefs about students, learning and the purpose of education. In her book “Other People’s Children,” the author Lisa Delpit writes that, “We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.”

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Making Is Great Because It’s Chaotic. But Not Everyone Is Looking for Chaos.

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offers when asked to describe the making-focused lessons and activities that she uses with her students. When they’re engaged in making activities, students are learning, but “learning just looks different” than the typical classroom, according to Kwan. Want to learn more about this research project?

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Five Keys to Motivating Students

Faculty Focus

Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. It needs to be challenging but something that can be accomplished.

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Five Keys to Motivating Students

Faculty Focus

Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. It needs to be challenging but something that can be accomplished.