Every student is bound to face challenges and failures throughout their life. Curvd learning’s approach helps destigmatize failure and develops students’ ability to embrace it as part of learning by creating personalized opportunities for students to intentionally face failure and guiding them to reflect, self-assess and iterate.
Examples of “Ready, Set, Fail” in action
Students experience “curveballs” during the course of a project, creating opportunities to practice regrouping and responding adaptively.
Students debrief challenges & failures to explicitly leverage difficult situations as learning opportunities
Students explore strategies for navigating stress and apply them in the context of their work
“The reflection piece is important no matter what. Emphasize how they felt they did on different learning objectives of the assignment. Use the times they hit a roadblock or conflict with their group to reflect on what happened, how it made them feel and what they learned from it. That last piece allows them to reflect on the negatives. It’s important to let kids feel bad at times, it’s a human reaction we don’t want to gloss over. What they learn from failing gives them direction and focus, so they don’t dwell on those bad feelings.”
-Mara Morrison
“If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.”
-Carol Dweck
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Free Educator Resources to embrace failure productively
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If you’re interested in implementing more student voice & choice in your classroom and working with a network of like minded educators to help students embrace failure as a learning opportunity, sign up for our Educator Breakthrough Series workshop designed to do just that. The virtual seminar launches this summer and space is limited.
