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2018

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Teaching Life Lessons: When Millennials Fail, Jeffrey Ramirez, Janalee Isaacson, Deborah Smith, Brenda Senger Jan 2018

Teaching Life Lessons: When Millennials Fail, Jeffrey Ramirez, Janalee Isaacson, Deborah Smith, Brenda Senger

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Background: Students who fail may face feelings of diminished self-perception, decreased sense of achievement, and experience negative emotions or moods such as: guilt, embarrassment, thoughts of reoccurring failure, feeling of letting others down or disappointing teachers and parents.

Aim: This paper is to discusses the topic of failure and providing thoughts and reflections on the topic. The authors believe that faculty can help students learn to fail and also maintain their self-worth and dignity. Helping students learn from these failures and promoting resilience and humility when faced with life adversities may be one of the best lifelong lessons faculty …