This week, we looked at our learning skills and took some time to be very reflective of our own learning so far this semester. For this week I want you to continue to be reflective about your learning, and your personality and to think about failure and making mistakes. Making mistakes feels bad, failure isn’t fun, it never feels good, and sometimes it can be downright embarrassing! The crazy thing about it though, is that it’s through mistakes and failure that we experience large amounts of growth; as learners, and as people. In your blog post this week, I want you to think back on this past month, week, year, etc. and come up with a failure or mistake that still sticks with you as well as what you learned from that experience. Write down what happened, why you feel that you failed or what the mistake was and what you learned from this failure.
My example for this week:
One mistake that still stands out clearly in my mind happened when I was Mr. Else’s student teacher. I had a class of grade six students and I was teaching them about finding the volume of a triangular prism. This was a very important lesson because II had the vice principal in the class watching and I TAUGHT IT TO THEM WRONG! I got confused with the numbers and the vice-principal had to come up and help me with the lesson. After this lesson, I chose to go down to her office to apologize for not being prepared enough and for making a mistake. She helped me understand the math concept more deeply and helped me to realize that in teaching, there are many mistakes. It turns out it’s what you do once you’ve made the mistake that matters. Use your mistakes, reflect on them and grow as a person! Forgive yourself, learn, and move on!
My example for this week:
One mistake that still stands out clearly in my mind happened when I was Mr. Else’s student teacher. I had a class of grade six students and I was teaching them about finding the volume of a triangular prism. This was a very important lesson because II had the vice principal in the class watching and I TAUGHT IT TO THEM WRONG! I got confused with the numbers and the vice-principal had to come up and help me with the lesson. After this lesson, I chose to go down to her office to apologize for not being prepared enough and for making a mistake. She helped me understand the math concept more deeply and helped me to realize that in teaching, there are many mistakes. It turns out it’s what you do once you’ve made the mistake that matters. Use your mistakes, reflect on them and grow as a person! Forgive yourself, learn, and move on!
