The Effects Of Fail Fear - Scared to try? It's difficult to pin down the exact origin of the 'do not fail' culture in schools. Did schools simply replicate the industrial model where the wrong result would mean lost profits? Was it the growth in competitive school structures and league tables that encouraged teachers to only point students directly to the 'right' answer? It doesn't really matter, we just need to remove the fear culture asap!

THE EFFECTS OF FAIL FEAR

Fear of getting it 'wrong' makes students:

1. Not engage
2. rely too much on teacher input
3. not experiment or challenge ideas
4. not value their own thoughts (correct thoughts will be provided)

Fear of things going wrong makes teachers:

1. Never challenge their own practice with something new.
2. Not enhance practice with digital tools.
3. Not encourage peer observation.
4. focus students only on the 'right' answers and not on the purpose behind learning.
5. restrict students to only the activities and technologies that they know themselves to 'work'
6. not learn from the kids !

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