Personal & social development // Self-Regulation & Resilience
Learning from Mistakes
Understand that making mistakes is a normal part of learning and that everyone — including adults — makes mistakes, and begin to see mistakes as opportunities to learn rather than reasons to give up
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If the learner gets an answer wrong in class or messes up during a game, do they bounce back and keep trying rather than shutting down or saying 'I can't do it'?
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Topic // Mastery
What mastery looks like
- Describe a time they made a mistake and what they learned from it
- Respond to a mistake by trying again rather than giving up
- Explain why mistakes help people learn
Topic // Map
Where this fits
- RequiredMust come first
- HelpfulHelps, but not essential
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1 topic- Words for Big FeelingsHelpful
Self-Regulation & Resilience // Ages 5 to 8
Framing mistakes as learning uses the vocabulary of feelings management and coping with setback
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Learning from Mistakes
Ages 5 to 7 // Concept
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1 topic- Growth MindsetRequired
Self-Regulation & Resilience // Ages 7 to 9
Growth mindset builds on understanding mistakes as learning opportunities
Topic // Standards
Curriculum standards
- IB PYP Personal, Social and Physical Education (PSPE) Scope and Sequence
- PSPE-ID-CU-P1-2PSPE-ID-LO-P1-9
Personal & social development // Self-Regulation & Resilience
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