Regular visitors to this blog will be familiar with the concept of controlled floundering and the continuum that ranges from flourishing to failure; however, if this reading is your first visit to the blog, I encourage you to examine those ideas to provide a framework for this post on the Gift of Failure. Although Lahey’s …
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Controlled Floundering
Controlled floundering is a term that I latched onto years ago because it conjures for me the image of students grappling with a new concept or skill that doesn’t come naturally for them. Well, this past week I was reminded of what floundering means as I began a new semester with what seemed like error …