P — Productive Failure Recovery
Your plan fell apart. Now what? Students who develop this capacity don't shut down when they fail — they analyze what went wrong and come back with a different approach.
8 critical thinking capacities that teach students how to think clearly when everything is uncertain.
Your plan fell apart. Now what? Students who develop this capacity don't shut down when they fail — they analyze what went wrong and come back with a different approach.
Conditions changed. The old plan doesn't work anymore. Students learn to recognize when it's time to adjust and when it's time to hold the course.
Your brain made a decision before you finished thinking. Students learn to catch their own cognitive machinery in the act — and question it.
Not everything that looks important is important. Students learn to find the signal in a flood of noise, distraction, and irrelevant detail.
The kittens are cold and hungry RIGHT NOW. Students learn to feel strong emotions without letting those emotions hijack the decision.
You don't have all the information. You never will. Students learn to make reasonable decisions anyway — based on what they do know, not what they wish they knew.
The group says one thing. The data says another. Students learn when to trust the team and when to hold their own analysis.
Your decision affects people who aren't in the room. Students learn to consider who benefits, who loses, and what the right thing is when there's no easy answer.
Every PATIENCE simulation is built on John Hattie's Visible Learning research and delivered through the DIIE instructional model.
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