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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.

Failure 217
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Does your school have a growth mindset when it comes to change?

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Belief that education needs to change. As an example, many people believe they need to become fitter, yet are not prepared to act on this belief by actually taking part in a fitness program. Degree of technical knowledge and understanding of technology. This may not be easy, but all that is needed is a “gut feel.”

Beliefs 189
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When Best Practices Fail Black and Brown Students, We Must Challenge Our Moral Contradictions

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I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. We cannot in one breath condemn the prison-to-school pipeline and then create systems and structures that funnel to failure. Honor and implement the knowledge gained from Black scholars. What was I negotiating?

Culture 178
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Making Is Great Because It’s Chaotic. But Not Everyone Is Looking for Chaos.

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Instead, educators described making as an approach to teaching and learning that puts students at the center; that encourages what educators variously termed “supported failure,” “controlled struggle,” and “failing forward”; and that teaches resilience, perseverance, empathy and problem-solving. How does this look in practice?

Coaching 171
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Five Keys to Motivating Students

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If students don’t have the knowledge and skills necessary to accomplish the task, how can they acquire those? Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. 671) Even more simply: If students believe they can do it, they are motivated to try. The first implication for teachers involves the feedback they provide students.

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Five Keys to Motivating Students

Faculty Focus

If students don’t have the knowledge and skills necessary to accomplish the task, how can they acquire those? Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. 671) Even more simply: If students believe they can do it, they are motivated to try. The first implication for teachers involves the feedback they provide students.

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Let’s Talk About Habits of Mind

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Their motivation is often failure, and taking the wrong path again and again. Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations. ” Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations. Consider prior knowledge and experience. They excel at activities that aren’t the result of a GPA and an Ivy League college. Thinking Flexibly.