CATL Workshop: Is Teaching Students to Fail Actually Giving them Agency?

The workshop will begin at 4:15 p.m. on Sept. 20 in Belk Pavilion Room 208. 

There’s been a lot of discussion around teaching students to fail. But how (and by whom) is “failure” defined? Often, failure takes place within the parameters of classes or college life that students themselves do not create.

‘Should we instead be teaching students to create their own parameters inside which they attempt to meet their own goals? Then, if and when they encounter failure, that failure is more authentic because the student invested their own thought and planning in creating the experience. What might that mean our teaching and student learning? Join colleagues to discuss the implications of “teaching failure.”

 Please register online.