The HOOT
Pine Run Elementary School Newsletter
TEACH KIDS TO FAIL--TO TEACH THEM TO LEARN
It's hard as parents to watch our children struggle, to see them frustrated, to see them fail.
Yet we recognize that skills such as persistence, resiliency, determination, and commitment can only be learned by overcoming the challenges of failure. As failures are faced and conquered, lessons are learned, achievements are made, and confidence build. Without these skills, children would struggle to effectively navigate their worlds.
Failure is not always an easy road, and many times there is not picture-perfect success at the end. Sometimes, the end is yet another failure. However, these subsequent failures offer benefits too. New knowledge and learning is gained and can be applied to the next challenge faced.
As educators, we see failure as an everyday part of education. Taking risks, trying hard things, being challenged, and even failure are critical components of the learning process, whether in academics, athletics, arts, or social situations. The teachers and staff at Pine Run work diligently to help our students through this process in a variety of ways. We provide students with internal and external tools to help them understand and regulate their emotions, to communicate their feelings, and to seek help when appropriate from others.
At Pine Run, we believe in supporting our students as they experience failure. We help them to use failures to gain resiliency, independence, and confidence. We also believe in the importance of our partnerships between home and school. The following article and video have some great tips on how to help children learn to fail. I hope you find them beneficial!!
Musician and author Derek Sivers explains the importance of failure--for effective learning, growth mindset, and quality through experimentation.
Activity: Take a few minutes and think about a time when you made a really bad mistake. Write down what happened: what was the mistake, why did you make it, how did you feel, what could you have done differently? Reflect a bit more and write down what you learned from making the mistake--maybe about what you were trying to accomplish or about yourself. Divide into small groups and share your experience with others.
Assignment: Be an investigative reporter and ask as many different people as you can to tell you about a bad mistake they made and what they learned from it. Write down their answers. Be sure to get their first name, age, and what they do. Type up all the answers you collect and share them with colleagues or classmates.
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