Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2022

There’s a lot to be learned from failure. Here’s more detail on how students learn fro m failure. Next year, incorporate it into your classroom management by asking students to submit their work electronically (if you don’t already). I’ll give you ideas. In fact, you can’t.

Skills 167

Skills Failure Learning Knowledge 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

When we feel like students’ every movement is a reflection of our professional competency or personal failure, it is easy to focus more on enforcing student compliance than cultivating student joy. Ultimately, it hurts students when teachers approach our work from a place of stress and fear.

Coaching 218

Coaching Teachers Evaluation Feedback 218

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

Quizzes 158

Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 158

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2019

Failure is a learning tool. In life, failure happens. Those who thrive know how to recover from failure and continue. Let them know what’s going on in class. Welcome their questions and visits. Respond to their varied time constraints and knowledge levels. Assessments aren’t about finding perfect. Differentiation is the norm.

Failure 128

Failure Gamification Textbooks Knowledge 128

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. It was a challenge to correct her without having her shut down, declare herself a failure, and move on. She didn’t do it by being an easy grader or downsizing my work requirements or even unduly praising me.

Teachers 136

Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 136

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

Last school year, I made drastic changes in my classroom management system. Those names are just a few in the pool of “famous failures”—and in this case, the “failure” part is more important than the “famous” part. Wondering why Jennifer chose Aurasma?

Science 113

Science Failure Teachers History 113

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With barely a month’s worth of virtual training on lesson planning, pedagogy, content specific best practices, assessment, DEI work and classroom management, I was nowhere near prepared to teach a culturally and linguistically diverse sixth grade class completely online during the height of a pandemic.

Teaching 166

Teaching Culture Failure Fairness 166

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Many believe they need to succeed immediately and that any failure they encounter will be devastating. I’ve always enjoyed bringing new techniques, methodologies and tools into the classroom, but by nature I am risk-averse, so my excitement is typically followed by a slew of big fears. Many of my students don’t have this mindset.

Teachers 141

Teachers Textbooks Lecturing Social Studies 141

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Here are some strategies to foster a growth mindset: Embrace failure as a learning opportunity: Encourage students to see failure as a steppingstone towards improvement. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience. Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process and can teach valuable lessons.

Failure 98

Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Here are some strategies to foster a growth mindset: Embrace failure as a learning opportunity: Encourage students to see failure as a steppingstone towards improvement. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience. Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process and can teach valuable lessons.

Failure 96

Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 96

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2023

What there is is a teacher not afraid to try new ways, test them out in a classroom environment, toss what doesn’t work and share the rest. Her/his success doesn’t come without lots of failure and mistakes, widgets that sounded good but were too complicated or non-intuitive for a 21st century classroom.

Teachers 148

Teachers Failure Learning Styles Lecturing 148

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The task then for faculty is to determine a way to provide constructive feedback for students that encourages goal setting and keeps the emotional response or feelings of failure at bay. Promoting “quality” feedback: First year teachers’ self-reports on their development as classroom managers. Molloy et al.

Feedback 119

Feedback Reading Disabilities Assignments 119

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JULY 19, 2017

Orton was a neuropsychiatrist and a pioneer in focusing attention on reading failure and related language processing difficulties. Orton-Gillingham (officially labeled “Orton-Gillingham Multisensory Structured Language Approach”) came about through the foundational contributions of Samuel T. Orton and Anna Gillingham.

Learning Styles 108

Learning Styles Students Languages Language 108

Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2023

It is to our detriment to assume that adult learners in our classrooms, despite the advent of pandemic learning, are aware of the stresses that digital learning can incur if not managed properly. Inform your students about laptop use and possible warning signs of technical failure.

Lecturing 105

Lecturing Instructors Assignments Failure 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2017

There’s a lot to be learned from failure. Here’s more detail on how students learn from failure. Next year, incorporate it into your classroom management by asking students to submit their work electronically. I’ll give you some ideas. Don’t be afraid to fail in front of students.

Skills 75

Skills Teachers Failure Learning 75

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The task then for faculty is to determine a way to provide constructive feedback for students that encourages goal setting and keeps the emotional response or feelings of failure at bay. Promoting “quality” feedback: First year teachers’ self-reports on their development as classroom managers. Molloy et al.

Feedback 98

Feedback Reading Disabilities Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

As the team found, small but critically timed interventions like this can make the difference between success and failure. Researchers at Charles Sturt University in Australia used a failing grade or those who were on track to receive a “near miss” in the first few weeks of the semester to target at-risk students with extra support.

Course Design 128

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

As the team found, small but critically timed interventions like this can make the difference between success and failure. Researchers at Charles Sturt University in Australia used a failing grade or those who were on track to receive a “near miss” in the first few weeks of the semester to target at-risk students with extra support.

Course Design 111

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

In a Fixed Mindset your failures define you like, “I’m no good at dancing!” Here’s the Amazon blurb: Why do kids need to know about Growth Mindsets? Scientists have found that there are two different kinds of mindsets: FIXED MINDSETS and GROWTH MINDSETS. A fixed mindset never changes. My growth mindsets can change!

Critical Thinking 89

Critical Thinking Evaluation Failure Fairness 89

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Grades are awarded but never connote failure. Conversely, the 4th grader who still struggles with division is made to feel comfortable taking all the time s/he needs, trying different methods, until mathematical division makes sense to him/her. Only then does s/he move on. Keep working.

Learning 83

Learning Achievement Failure Math 83

Teacher Mood

MARCH 6, 2025

Embracing a Growth Mindset allows us to view failure as an opportunity for learning and improvement rather than a reflection of our inherent abilities. Teach your students to see failure as a chance to learn, grow, and come back even stronger. Overcoming a fixed mindset is definietly going to have some growing pains.

Beliefs 52

Beliefs Failure Feedback Students 52

Teacher Mood

OCTOBER 10, 2024

When students believe they can succeed (self-efficacy) and feel good about themselves (self-esteem), theyre much more likely to take on challenges, try new things, bounce back from failures , and be overall more engaged in learning.

Students 52

Students Feedback Failure Beliefs 52

Cult of Pedagogy

DECEMBER 10, 2023

What are the systemic failures that are preventing the school from having food?” I’m already setting myself up for failure because there’s all kinds of things that are out of my control around how they’re reacting to me. Why was the teacher the only person positioned to do that?

Students 52

Students Failure Counselling Culture 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2024

Because to many, ‘tech problem’ equates to the mind-numbing, bone-chilling feeling of ‘I have no idea what to do’ In a word: Failure. Voltaire) Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Having said all this, I am willing to stipulate: Tech failure is inevitable.

Failure 167

Failure Technology Internet Testing 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Because to many, ‘tech problem’ equates to the mind-numbing, bone-chilling feeling of ‘I have no idea what to do’ In a word: Failure. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Having said all this, I am willing to stipulate: Tech failure is inevitable.

Technology 124

Technology Failure Internet Classroom Management 124