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"What if, when students failed, teachers praised them? In the business world, the world of entrepreneurship, failure remains inevitable but so does success if you keep plugging away at your goal. Embracing this in education teaches students to learn that mistakes lead to success. Science teachers probably understand this concept better than most teachers. They just happen to call it hypothesis or refer to it as an experiment instead of failure." 
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For decades, the prevailing wisdom in education was that high achievement would follow high self-esteem. Now that is being turned on its head.
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"Recent research has upended everything we think we know about praising children, says Sandra Aamodt, author of Welcome to Your Child's Brain: How the Mind Grows From Conception to College. Framing the way you praise your child around his or her characteristics encourages a "fixed" mindset, she argues, by telegraphing the message that achievement is based only on intrinsic assets rather than on hard work and growth." Watch the short clip to help learn how to praise your child (or student)!
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What would happen if we taught our students (or learners) that failure is a gift, that we learn lessons when we fail. This post provides 50 tips to use with students to help them "fail well." Five are below. Find the forty-five in the post, as well as additional information on each.
* Point out their mistakes
* Praise them immediately
* Experiment with them
* Expose them to the unknown
* Teach them to start over
Use these tips to shift communication around failure. Help your students see failure as an opportunity to learn, to grow.