I was saddened today as I watched fear spread across my classroom. Students would not attempt to answer because they were afraid of being wrong. I could feel the change in climate. Only those students who don't have strong social skills would answer as they couldn't sense the change. It reached the point that I had no one willing to guess.
How do you fight against a culture that believes that only right answers matter?
How do we encourage kids to see that being wrong is how we learn?
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