Fail Small, Succeed Big
Teachers are at the forefront in the effort to embrace failure as a learning mode. The team at Fail Small, Succeed Big recognizes their perspectives around failure as important information in our work toward a solution that allows for students to fail small and succeed big. As a result, we conducted a survey among 35 teachers in pre-kindergarten through post-secondary level, asking them to rate their beliefs on statements related to student failure and success.
54% of the teachers believed students benefit from seeing their progress over time.
42.9% of teachers want the ability to integrate technology in the classroom to provide students with immediate feedback and the opportunity to revise student work.
Evaluating the process in which students work through problems was considered as valaubale as the end result by 60% of teachers.
Seeing student growth data was important to 57.1% of the teachers.
80% of teachers believe all students have the potential to improve.
54.3% of the teachers believed students would work harder if their persistence is recognized and valued by their teacher.
Clearly, teachers recognize the importance of failure as a learning mode. So how can we create opportunities for students to learn from failure in their classrooms? CLICK HERE to learn about how growth mindsets can make the difference.