The Upside of Teaching:Finding Success in Failure

Catherine Donnelly PhD OT Reg (Ont.)

School of Rehabilitation Therapy

&

Lisa F. Carver MA (Psych) PhD (S0c)Faculty of Arts and Science

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Failure..?

It is impossible to live without

failing at something, unless you

live so cautiously that you might as

well not have lived at all, in which

case you have failed by default.” J.K. Rowling

https://www.ted.com/talks/jk_rowling_the_fringe_benefits_of_failure/discussion

1. Consider examples of teaching ‘failure’

2. Articulate how failure can be used to support learning and growth

3. Describe strategies, including reflective practice, to use failure to to develop your teaching

Learning Outcomes

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Experiencing Failure

Finding Success

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Analyzing failure and using it to develop better ideas, better designs, is the key to future success (Petroski, 2018)

A snapshot of failure review articles:

Cancer Tx failure (Yu, Cao, Shen, & Feng, 2015),

Hepatitis Tx failure (Klag & Langley, 2014),

Distance Ed failures (Abadi & Rehfeldt, 2016)

Design & Engineering failure (Petroski, 2018).

Organizational failure (Maitlis & Lawrence, 2003)

Failure studies

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Reflection-in-action

Reflection-on-action

Donald Schon, 1983

Reflective Practitioner

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I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

Experiential Learning

Do

ReflectApply

Process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of

experience (Kolb, 1983)

Dewey, Piaget, Kolb

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Document Lessons learned – after class/course

Debrief (peer- mentor)

In the moment: Acknowledge the Failure

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What will you do

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Abadi, A. M., & Rehfeldt, M.J.H. (2016). Autonomy in learning: A relationship between failure and success of distance education students. Práxis Educativa, 11(2), 310-331. doi:10.5212/PraxEduc.v.11i2.0001

Cockerill, K. (2013). A failure reveals success A comparative analysis of environmental education, education for sustainable development, and industrial ecology education. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 17(5), 633-641. doi:10.1111/jiec.12049

Diez-Perez, A., Adachi, J. D., Agnusdei, D., Bilezikian, J. P., Compston, J. E., Cummings, S. R., Eastell, R., Eriksen, E.F….Cooper, C. (2012). Treatment failure in osteoporosis. Osteoporosis International, 23(12), 2769-2774. doi:10.1007/s00198-012-2093-8

Fassett, D. L., & Warren, J. T. (2004). "you get pushed back": The strategic rhetoric of educational success and failure in higher education. Communication Education, 53(1), 1. doi:10.1080/0363452032000135751

Grady, Deborah. (2018). Evidence for postmenopausal hormone therapy to prevent chronic conditions success, failure, and lessons learned. Jama Internal Medicine, 178(2), 185-186. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.7861

Klag, M., & Langley, A. (2014). Critical junctures in strategic planning: Understanding failure to enable success. Organizational Dynamics, 43(4), 274-283. doi:10.1016/j.orgdyn.2014.09.004

Maitlis, S., & Lawrence, T. B. (2003). Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark: Understanding failure in organizational strategizing. Journal of Management Studies, 40(1), 109-139. doi:10.1111/1467-6486.t01-2-00006

Mikkelsen, T., Soendergaard, J., Jensen, A., & Olesen, F. (2008). Cancer surviving patients' rehabilitation - understanding failure through application of theoretical perspectives from habermas. Bmc Health Services Research, 8(1), 122-122. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-8-122

Nikiphorou, E., Aletaha, D., & Bukhari, M. (2019). Are we failing patients in our assessment of treatment failure? Rheumatology, 58(4), 561-562. doi:10.1093/rheumatology/key107

Petroski, H. (2018). Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design. Princeton University Press.

Yu, S., Cao, H., Shen, B., & Feng, J. (2015). Tumor-derived exosomes in cancer progression and treatment failure. Oncotarget, 6(35), 37151-37168. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.6022

Zoulim, F., & Locarnini, S. (2012). Management of treatment failure in chronic hepatitis B.Journal of Hepatology, 56, S112-S122. doi:10.1016/S0168-8278(12)60012-9

References

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