Teacher Tip #19: Help Your Students Learn to Lose!
No one likes to lose, and even fewer people like a sore loser! While we all want our students to experience success, it is equally important to prepare them to handle defeat... and game play provides a safe and natural arena in which to practice this important life skill!
So how do we help kids deal with defeat? Click HERE for some dos and don'ts for turning losses into learning experiences!
In my role as ThinkFun's Education Specialist, I write Parent's Guides for our early learning games (here's one for S'Match!) These guides help both parents and teachers use games not only as fun and engaging activities, but also help them draw out learning opportunities and use games as teaching tools. These guides share tips for supporting not only cognitive skills such as pattern recognition, word building, and number sense, but also for building critical social skills, like learning to win and lose graciously, through game play!
How can teachers turn a defeat into an opportunity for growth and learning? Please share YOUR tips and strategies for helping children cope with losing by commenting HERE!
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An excerpt from the What's GNU? Parent's Guide. |
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