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"Mistakes Are Opportunities For Learning"
"Mistakes Are Opportunities For Learning"
Teacher Preparation
Teacher Preparation
Read The Genius Myth
Review Learning is Messy -3 Step Strategy
Review Strategies from the New Growth Mindset Coach, p. 149-150
Read Productive Failure
The Genius Myth
The Genius Myth
As a young child, Einstein's parents consulted a doctor because he was so late to begin speaking. He was also a late reader. He was forced to take his college entrance exams a second time having failed the first. Einstein may have been born with some natural mental acuity where math and problem-solving are concerned, but even he would have told you it wasn't his natural intelligence that propelled him to the greatest discoveries in the field of physics; It was his unceasing determination-what we call his growth mindset. When faced with failure he tried again and again.
Here are some snippets of Einstein’s thoughts on failure:
"Failure is success in progress."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas."
"I have no special new talent. I am only passionately curious."
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
Productive Failure
Productive Failure
When parents and teachers swoop in to protect children from failure, they do them a disservice by depriving them of the opportunity to learn how to fail in a way that's productive and meaningful. Knowing how to fall is a valuable skill, and one that more and more children aren't mastering thanks to overprotective parents and self-esteem culture.
Helpful tools for choosing Student of the Month
Strategy: Ask Three Then Me is a good look for.
Highlight mistakes; deconstruct and reconstruct.
Know what obstacles are getting in the way of learning.
Sample Resources for In-person and Virtual Classroom Use
Sample Resources for In-person and Virtual Classroom Use
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Famous Mistakes
Famous Mistakes
Coding
Coding
In computer science, whether you are a novice or an expert, it is expected and perfectly normal to find bugs (issues/problems) in your programs. When we go back into the algorithm (steps) we have instructed the computer to take and remove these issues using our skills of perseverance, it is called debugging.
The term debugging originated from an actual bug, a moth to be exact, that was found in Harvard's Mark II computer 1947. This caused glitches and forced staff to take apart the computer to find the problem.
Use Hour of Code to teach mistakes are expected and opportunities for learning.
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