Making mistakes is not a crime, mistakes make you understand the difference between what’s wrong and what’s right. As quoted by Winston Churchill, “All men make mistakes but only wise men learn from their mistakes”. Students should be taught to learn from the mistakes they do. Students who learn from mistakes become successful in every field. Teachers should help Students Develop a “Growth Mindset”. A school should be a place where students get to Practice Thinking and have fun doing it.
Appreciate them on Learning from Mistakes
An effort by Itself Is Not Enough, even you have to appreciate students when they learn from their mistakes. For this, first of all, it is necessary that you should never go angry or scold them while they make a mistake. You should teach them, how to improve or correct that particular mistake, then only they will get an attitude of learning from their mistakes. In this mistake- friendly Environment students get to Practice Thinking and have fun doing it.
Strategizing Solutions to Situations
When a student makes a mistake or finds it difficult to overcome any deadline etc., one way out is strategizing solutions to situations. This can be learned by playing chess regularly.
Effective Learning Strategies can be made for the smooth learning of a child. Take, for example, the timetable can be made when exams are nearing so that student’s studies and activities can be managed efficiently.
When a student does not do well in exams, ask them to analyze their answer sheets. Ask them to re-write the wrong answers, which will encourage students to identify errors and rectify them. It will also make sure that they do not repeat the same mistakes. Finally helping Students Develop a “Growth Mindset”.
Experience
How will we appreciate good experiences, if we do not go through bad experiences? Experience plays a key role in make students learn from their mistakes. People keep on advising and suggesting the right ways, no matter how many times we get these suggestions and advice, we only learn to do things correctly after making mistakes. Rightly said, “You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.”
How to solve Problems
Learning from mistakes also makes a student develop his problem-solving skills because of the experiences he had had while making mistakes that made him understand the consequences of the decision he makes. A student should be using analytical and logical reasoning skills to solve problems.