Diana Laufenberg (teacher) shares 3 surprising things she has learned about teaching -- including a key insight about learning from mistakes. Just memorizing a bunch of stuff for an exam or test is not how learning happens in the real world. Learning involves learning from trial and error.
When you let go of past paradigms (Check out a talk from Ken Robinson on changing paradigms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U), you'll go places where you can not even imagine. Teachers need to get comfortable with allowing kids to fail as part of the learning process - we're over-infatuated with the right answer or the correct bubble choice. Learning does not happen if it's all about the right answer.
It's not about "perfect" - Learning has to include failure because failure is instructional in the process of learning. We have to stop thinking that learning is about coming to school to get the information - we should be see learning as being more about experiential learning, embracing failure, and empowering student voice. If we don't - we're missing the mark and it's about time we do it better for our kids!
Mistakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up4hFj-jcTY
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