Mistakes are an important part of the learning process. The attached article by Alina Tugend published in Edutopia explains the research on how children use mistakes to learn. How adults react to children when mistakes are made is critical to the learning process. What are your thoughts about the role of mistakes in the learning process? You can access the article by clicking on the wordle.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Allowing Scholars to Make Mistakes
Mistakes are an important part of the learning process. The attached article by Alina Tugend published in Edutopia explains the research on how children use mistakes to learn. How adults react to children when mistakes are made is critical to the learning process. What are your thoughts about the role of mistakes in the learning process? You can access the article by clicking on the wordle.
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So often, I see children afraid to try for fear of being wrong or making a mistake. This is one thing I talk about a lot in my class. I would rather have a scholar try really hard and miss the problem, than to never have tried at all. Learning from mistakes is something we do our entire lives, child or adult. We have to be encouraging and motivating to our children to get them to strive to be the best. Sometimes that means making mistakes and correcting them to be successful.
By their very nature, mistakes teach indelible lessons. No one likes to make them or worse, admit them. It is good to work at not feeling foolish about learning from our mistakes both for children and their adult role models. The key would seem to be focusing on what has been learned.
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