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Daring Greatly - Implementing Failure Skills In The Learning Process, Megan K. Timm
Daring Greatly - Implementing Failure Skills In The Learning Process, Megan K. Timm
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Failure plays an unavoidable role in the life of everyone. From the most mastered professionals to the toddler taking his first steps, everyone will experience failure at one point or another. In the educational setting, both educators and students will have failure experiences, and will undergo the consequences of that experience, whether positive or negative. This literature review will summarize fields of research that highlight both the negative and positive consequences of experiencing failure and will also introduce “failure skills,” which is defined as the key to producing positive consequences from experiencing failure. Examples of the “failure skills” are: Grit, …
Harnessing The Value Of Failure To Promote Student Growth, Jared Lyle
Harnessing The Value Of Failure To Promote Student Growth, Jared Lyle
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One common element that all students face in school is failure. A review of literature will seek to answer the questions: What are the effects of failure on self-efficacy and mindset? What are the most effective structures to help students to handle and use failure in the classroom? This study will review the study of how parenting, gender, income effect how students deal with failure. Also, the study will identify how students with high and low self-esteem view failure differently. Secondly, a review of literature will investigate the differences of how students with growth and fixed mindset approach failure differently, …
Learning To Fail: Using A Growth Mindset In The K-12 Classroom, Colleen Kopp
Learning To Fail: Using A Growth Mindset In The K-12 Classroom, Colleen Kopp
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As more and more research is being conducted on learning, the education system is forced to change with it. The approach to creating the right space and culture, lesson planning, instructional methods, and ultimate goal for learning all need a closer look. It is not enough to simply allow students to make mistakes in the classroom. That is just the beginning. The climate needs to one in which mistakes are welcomed, and are an expected part of the learning process. The learners need to feel safe to not only make mistakes, but to use them as part of the process …
Failing Forward: How Student Failure Builds A Framework For Lifelong Learning, Andrew R. Kurkowski
Failing Forward: How Student Failure Builds A Framework For Lifelong Learning, Andrew R. Kurkowski
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Humans have been dealing with the issue of failure since their existence. No matter the field, whether it be business, athletics, science, mathematics, etc., students and professionals are going to experience minor and major failures in their pursuits. Some may say that the main goal of the educator is to encourage students to pursue lifelong learning. With this being the case, one question that this paper aims to address is how to teach students use these inevitable life events as tools for growth in the academic environment and whether this mindset is effective in accomplishing the development of lifelong learning …