I am thankful for my musical background, as I feel like music is still an outlet where mistakes are celebrated and students feel very comfortable in my class to try something and fail. I would like to take these experiences and help lead teachers and students to allow failures in classrooms and actually celebrate them as much as a success. Students are learning, and learning makes mistakes! Positive posters about mistakes and sharing mistakes that teachers have experienced will hopefully encourage students to feel comfortable trying instead of always succeeding.
How can we redefine our ideas about success?
It is important to teach children about success and how we can best measure it in education. Redefining success is a long process, as many have predisposed ideas of what success means. The text gave excellent ideas about measuring success in both tangible and intangible successes for students.
Your text asks this question: "How have you been affected by rankings and ratings in your estimation of success? How have these experiences influenced your assessment of success?
I think we are all heavily influenced by rankings and ratings in the 21stcentury. The ratings of anything can affect if it has value to us and the challenge in education is to go against this trend and allow students to learn to think for themselves and reach for goals, unhindered by failures. My personal assessment of success has been influenced by growing up in musical family of symphony musicians and I am thankful for having always viewed success in a way that is countercultural. I hope to bring this view to my school as a principal.
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