How to bounce back from mistakes
The good thing about mistakes? Everybody makes them. They’re a normal part of life – of learning and growing. But it’s not always easy to just bounce back after a mistake. In this lesson, students identify and reflect on simple strategies they could use to recover after making a mistake.
Year level
7-8
Duration
5 minutes
Type
In class activity
SEL Competencies
Self-management
Learning intention
Students will identify strategies they could use to bounce back after making a mistake.
Key outcomes
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
identify strategies for bouncing back from mistakes
reflect on which strategies they might find useful, and why.
Materials needed
ReachOut article How to recover after making a mistake
Students’ devices
Pens and paper
Mapped to
Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education
Analyse the impact of changes and transitions, and devise strategies to support themselves and others through these changes (AC9HP8P02)
Australian Curriculum: General Capabilities
Personal and Social Capability:
Self-management
NSW PDHPE Syllabus
Demonstrates self-management skills to effectively manage complex situations (PD4-9)
Victorian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education
Investigate and select strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (VCHPEP126)
Activity 1
Instructions
5 minutes
Invite students to think about a time they each made a mistake.
Students read the ReachOut article How to recover after making a mistake.
Students create a three-column PMI (Plus, Minus and Interesting) chart in their notebooks.
Individually, or in pairs, students write in the ‘P’ column of their chart those strategies suggested in the article that they would use or think are useful, in ‘the ‘M’ column any they wouldn’t use or don’t think are useful, and in the ‘I’ column any that are new or interesting to them.
As a class, discuss the strategies suggested in the article. Invite volunteers to answer the following questions:
Which strategies do you think might be effective in helping you to bounce back from mistakes? Have you ever tried any of these?
Which strategies wouldn’t you find useful? Why?
