Overcoming Failures

Our comprehensive and result driven methodology uses Growth Mindset as a Key to teaching students how to fail better and that learning happens through failure, effort and hard work.

Fear of failure in students can be crippling, where students begin to avoid challenging work, tasks and reduce their motivation towards wanting to achieve. These results in poor outcomes are all around. Students need to be taught that failure is the precursor to all success and a necessary component of learning. The only way to succeed with tasks, assignments, exams, physical activity, sport and life, in general, is through true grit, persistence and embracing and learning from failures.

MPKP Methodology focuses on the development of a growth mindset in  students and making them learn how to fail well, the language to get there, how to get over it, cope with it and move on to succeed. A growth mindset can be best summed up and understood by the phrase, ‘I can’t do that…YET!’Everyone may not have the same intelligence but everyone can get smarter. In order to help students go from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset, we believe in

 Praising their effort and not just the final product. As educators, we need to understand that failure is a necessary part of learning for ourselves and embrace this modus operandi in our classrooms as practitioners. Only when we too model a growth mindset, can we better lead students in learning about using their failures as motivation for learning and ongoing achievement.

MPKP Foster the Development of Growth Mindset in Students through:

1. Educating Students about the difference between Fixed Mindset and Growth Mindset.
2. Creating a supportive classroom environment where Persistence, Effort and Mistakes are embraced, analyzed and celebrated.
3. Setting Learning Goals with Students and Monitoring their Progress.
4. Praising Effort, Struggle, Persistence, choosing difficult tasks, Learning Strategies, Choices and Improving.