GOOD EARTH
Saturday, 25 April 2020
WEBINAR ON ‘SUPPORTING STUDENTS TO LEARN FROM MISTAKES’
Delivered by Christophe Walder, Programme Officer, SEC, UK
Raminder Mac, Lead Teacher of our business enterprise ‘Good
Earth’ attended a webinar organized by School Enterprise Challenge, UK on April
24, 2020. The webinar was attended by 90 educators from all over the globe and
delivered by Christophe Walder, Programme Officer, SEC, UK. The webinar focused
on the following key areas:
· What is Growth
Mindset and why is it important
· The Learning
Journey – learners need to be resilient as the journey involves struggling,
making mistakes, failing and learning from these mistakes
· Practical Tool 1:
Gallery Walk – How to help students give constructive feedback to their peers –
by making their peers feel good about their effort and pointing them in the
right direction to make improvements
· Practical Tool 2:
The Learning from Mistakes Spectrum – can be used by teachers to guide
themselves and their students as well as can be shared with the students for
developing metacognition
· How School
Enterprise Challenge is a student led platform enabling students to learn from
mistakes
The webinar delivered by Christophe Walder with perfection provided
the participants to share their thoughts about supporting students to learn
from mistakes. Ms. Raminder Mac shared about the TEDEd Club being run in the
school and how Gallery Walk can be used as an effective tool during the
brainstorming sessions when the students present their ideas and their peers
give them constructive feedback.
