Two recent articles raise the question of what it would look like to embrace error in the classroom. One discusses a British girls’ school that is planning a “failure week” to encourage its students to “embrace risk, build resilience, and learn from their mistakes”:
“‘Failure week’ at top girls’ school to build resilience”
The other, from the Chronicle of Higher Education, challenges the assumption that faculty should always appear all-knowing in the classroom. Instead it encourages faculty to model for students what it looks like to “try, fail, and persist.”
One professor quoted asserts, ”I personally believe students benefit greatly if they see us struggle . . . They see that it’s OK for them to struggle.”
Read the full article here: “Note to Faculty: Don’t Be Such a Know-It-All”
