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Engaging Strategies for Reluctant Learners in High School

Teachers Pay Teachers

Build up foundational knowledge Many students enter high school with gaps in their instruction, making many lessons and activities feel impossibly difficult. Conduct a casual formative assessment during a class discussion or group activity, and regularly check in with students who need more support.

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Lifting as We Climb: A Reflection on Mentorship, Growth, and Leadership in Nursing Education

Faculty Focus

They encouraged me to embrace active learning, to create space where students become participants rather than passive listeners. Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself. Her belief in me helped me overcome self-imposed limits.

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Lifting as We Climb: A Reflection on Mentorship, Growth, and Leadership in Nursing Education

Faculty Focus

They encouraged me to embrace active learning, to create space where students become participants rather than passive listeners. Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself. Her belief in me helped me overcome self-imposed limits.

Beliefs 98
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How to Create a Classroom That’s a Safe Space for Failure

Edsurge

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.

Edsurge

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.”

Beliefs 161