Failure
After watching this TED talk below, and also reflecting on other readings, I feel enlightened about the value of failure.
Failure provides the opportunity to learn, and to stretch capacity. There is tremendous gratification in learning when the process is continual and student-driven.
Genuine Excellence
Often in education and in sports, we provide standardized awards for participation. I feel we have gotten away from the celebration of excellence, since it can be viewed as exclusionary. I feel that we can and should celebrate excellence. The real question is, what is excellence? To me, excellence is celebrating and releasing the talents and abilities of students. ALL STUDENTS HAVE UNIQUE TALENTS AND ABILITIES THAT SHOULD BE CELEBRATED. Our classrooms and schools should go further than conventional recognition for traditional achievement (Honour Roll, school-sports achievement, etc.), and celebrate the unique qualities that each student will add to our society. The important thing is this recognition must be GENUINE, and MEANINGFUL for each unique student.
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