Beliefs Failure Lecturing 
eSchool News
MARCH 26, 2025
The reality of jagged learning paths Students arent afraid of hard work–theyre afraid of failure without purpose. As educators, we can show our students that failure isnt the opposite of success–its a step toward it. Kids who feel brilliant at something–anything–carry that belief into their struggles.
eSchool News
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Building skills and confidence As I had hoped, the class learned more efficiently and enthusiastically about STEAM topics through this hands-on learning approach than they would have from my standard PowerPoint presentations and lectures. If you free your pre-service teachers to play, they’re apt to do the same with their students.
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Edsurge
JUNE 7, 2021
There was also a common belief among higher ed leaders—as there still is—that building online infrastructure is far too costly. Not until the health crisis forced campuses to close physical classrooms did so many colleges see the cost of their failure to act sooner.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
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.”
Edsurge
JANUARY 7, 2019
As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”
Edsurge
DECEMBER 4, 2020
There is a strong belief among many professors that all students need to succeed in intermediate algebra in order to progress, agrees Olga Rodriguez, a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California Higher Education Center. The shift in pedagogy there is that much more challenging.”
Faculty Focus
AUGUST 20, 2023
Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Actively reviewing and summarizing lecture notes, textbooks, and supplementary materials will deepen understanding and retention. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience.
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