Getting Our Students (and Ourselves) More Comfortable With Learning Through Failure

Flipped Learning Worldwide

Failure equals learning. Embracing this principle is one of the Global Elements of Effective Flipped Learning. It's also much easier said than done. In this episode, we talk about how to encourage students (and each other) to pick ourselves up without missing a beat, when we mess up, screw up, or drop the ball.

Resources: Flipped Learning Global Initiative (FLGI)

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Martha Ramirez has worked in the education field for more than 16 years. Her experience includes being a school teacher, a department head, a higher education educator, an academic consultant, and a researcher. She is an English professor in the Department of Languages and Sociocultural Studies at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia and works in various flipped learning international projects.

Joy McCourt teaches high school chemistry, physics, and mathematics in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she lives with her husband and two sons. Her interests include helping to moderate #flipclasschat every Monday on Twitter and training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Jake Habegger is an 8th grade US History Teacher in Franklin, Tennessee. His goal in education is to invigorate student learning by meeting them where they are through the use of technology.

Peter Santoro has been teaching high school mathematics for 12 years. In addition to two sections of Introductory Calculus, Peter also teaches one section of Geometry and two sections of Mathematics Research Honors. In addition, he is the coach of the Garden City High School Math Team (Mathletes).