Assignments Essay Failure 
Teach Hub
JUNE 27, 2025
Embrace Failure as a Learning Opportunity There’s a saying that goes, “If you never fail, you’ll never succeed”. We need to remind them that failing doesn’t mean you’re a failure. Failure means you tried, and when you fail, you must learn to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.
Faculty Focus
JULY 10, 2025
But what we see in higher education—missed assignments, low engagement, quiet classrooms—isn’t always a motivation issue. Normalize Struggle Students from under-resourced schools often view academic struggle as failure. I also let students revise one major assignment. Often, it’s a preparedness gap.
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Faculty Focus
JULY 10, 2025
But what we see in higher education—missed assignments, low engagement, quiet classrooms—isn’t always a motivation issue. Normalize Struggle Students from under-resourced schools often view academic struggle as failure. I also let students revise one major assignment. Often, it’s a preparedness gap.
Cult of Pedagogy
MAY 11, 2025
Communicate major assignments and assessments in advance and give students opportunities to plan their time and effort. In a classroom focused on avoiding errors and completing tasks, students may see the purpose of a math assignment as completing items 1-17 without any errors so it can be checked and graded.
eSchool News
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Every month, my Advanced English teacher, Mr. Johnson, assigned our class one of the classics of English literature and expected us to demonstrate what we had learned with an accompanying essay. Consequently, I found myself in a pressure cooker each month, drafting essays in the final days and hours before they were due.
eSchool News
JANUARY 22, 2025
The use of design thinking can foster a healthy relationship with failure within students. Research by Dorland (2023) shows that design thinking training may enable students to embrace, rather than struggle with failure in their work. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 14(1). link] Dorland, A. 2016, May 25).
eSchool News
JUNE 4, 2019
Whether it’s studying for an exam, completing a college essay, or finishing a social studies project, all students will inevitably find themselves procrastinating at some point in their academic careers. A school-avoidant student will continue to miss classes indefinitely and assignments will remain incomplete until term’s end.
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