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Let Students Learn From Failure

Ask a Tech Teacher

Too often, students–and teachers–believe learning comes from success when in truth, it’s as likely to be the product of failure. Here are ten ways to teach through failure: Use the Mulligan Rule. The teacher won’t be surprised by a failure or a question they can’t answer. Revise your mindset.

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Shift to Self-assessment

Catlin Tucker

It is a process where students evaluate their work, reflecting on what they’ve learned, how well they’ve understood complex concepts, how much progress they’ve made toward mastering key skills, and where they may need to invest time and energy to improve their concept knowledge and skill set.

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Will Existing Mental Models Threaten Post-pandemic Progress in Education?

Catlin Tucker

I believe these are aspects of education we have the opportunity to re-evaluate and reimagine in the wake of COVID. 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. We do not have to return to school exactly as it was before the pandemic.

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How and When to Give Feedback

Catlin Tucker

Focus on Process-based Feedback Process feedback focuses on evaluating and improving the steps, strategies, or techniques that students employ during the learning process. Reduces Fear of Failure When students receive feedback that focuses on the process rather than just the end result, they are less likely to fear failure.

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The 4 most common mistakes districts make in professional development

eSchool News

Teachers are always planning, evaluating, and assessing their own curriculums and spend most of their “free” time addressing those needs to improve teaching and learning. To support this effort, some schools offer tech-based PD as an added option, which may or may not set it up for failure. Squeezing tech-based PD whenever you can.

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5 educators share insights into teaching and learning

eSchool News

They will have some amazing successes–and some failures–as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. In the coming year, early adopters will continue to play with new AI tools to see how they can be used in education.

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Five Tips for Helping Post-Secondary Students Overcome Failure

Faculty Focus

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