I have a separate email address at home that I always use when I want to sign up for teacher related updates. As always happens with good intentions, I almost never have time to actually read these updates. However, as I was tossing this week’s e-fliers into my trash can, I saw an intriguing headline from BAM! Radio.
Victims of Excellence: Teaching Children to Learn From Mistakes, Parents to Allow Them
My interest was piqued. Hadn’t I been trying to put this very concept into rather vague words lately? So here I sit, thrilled that I am not alone on my quest to foster wee scientists who rally around their mistakes as well as their successes.