Failure Résumé

All25 minutesnone required

Goal

Normalize failure as a learning process.

Students create a "Failure Résumé" — a document listing their significant failures, setbacks, and mistakes (academic, personal, creative). For each entry, they write: (1) What happened, (2) What they ...

How It Works

  1. Students create a "Failure Résumé" — a document listing their significant failures, setbacks, and mistakes (academic, personal, creative). For each entry, they write: (1) What happened, (2) What they learned, (3) What they would do differently.

  2. The teacher shares their own Failure Résumé first as a model. Volunteers can share entries with the class.

  3. Display (anonymized) key lessons on the wall.

Why It Works

Inspired by Stanford professor Tina Seelig's practice. Directly addresses the fear of failure identified in adaptability research as the primary barrier to trying new things.

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