Learning from Mistakes in Kindergarten
from The Harvard EdCast Hosted by Maleka Donaldson, Jill Anderson
Mistakes are supposed to be part of learning. However, Maleka Donaldson knows how we convey mistakes and respond to them as educators can significantly impact a child's learning experience. Donaldson is an assistant professor at Smith College where she studies teacher-student interactions and responding to mistakes in early learning. In her book, "From Oops to Aha: Portraits of Learning from Mistakes in Kindergarten," she examines instruction in the classrooms of four public school kindergarten teachers showing the varied ways these interactions happen, and how factors beyond the teachers’ control shape their approaches to teaching and contribute to structural inequities.
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Maleka Donaldson shares different ways teachers frame mistakes in kindergarten and how mistakes can impact lifelong learning.
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