{"id":21026,"date":"2020-01-12T22:20:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T06:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21026"},"modified":"2020-01-12T22:20:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T06:20:41","slug":"turn-failure-into-a-catalyst-for-future-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21026","title":{"rendered":"Turn Failure Into a Catalyst for Future Success"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By LeAnn Simmerman, Teacher of the Gifted, Maury County Public Schools, TN<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Failure can be a painful experience for anyone, but is especially tough for teens who are still forming a sense of self. When people experience failure, they often report feelings of embarrassment, shame and depression. Teens can perceive failure as a judgment \u2013 final, condemning and irreversible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But, as many educators know, failure is an essential part of the learning process. A 2016\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0from Columbia University\u00a0found that high-school students\u2019 science grades improved after they learned about the personal and intellectual struggles of scientists, while students who only learned about the scientists\u2019 achievements saw their grades decline.<\/p>\n

So, yes, failure is important, but how do we teach it? In an aim to reach students at a critical age \u2013 high school TGR EDU: Explore provides one strategy in its\u00a0Rethinking Failure<\/em><\/a>\u00a0digital lesson bundle. Built out over three class sessions,\u00a0Rethinking Failure\u00a0<\/em>helps students define failure, analyze its role in successful ventures and learn to apply a growth mindset approach to reframe their own experiences with failure.\u00a0Edutopia<\/a>\u00a0is another resource for actionable strategies.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0an article<\/a>\u00a0about failure\u2019s role in long-term success, educator Monica Fuglei shares her reasoning behind hosting an \u2018I hope you fail\u2019 lecture each semester.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter years of teachers asking for the right answers [my students] aren\u2019t accustomed to someone highlighting or requesting the wrong ones. Students\u2019 failures tend to linger, creating mental baggage that interferes with learning. Lifting the burden requires us to address failure head-on and encourage students to accept it as a natural part of getting educated.\u201d<\/p>\n

When students feel comfortable making mistakes, the nervous feeling of being \u2018wrong\u2019 goes away, and is replaced by an opportunity to learn and grow. I urge every teacher and parent to help their students become comfortable with failure, and to make the invaluable connection between failure and future success.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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