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Handling Failure In & Out Of The Classroom - Action Plan
Part 1: Know Your College’s Policies.
Find your college’s policies about failing a class and/or failing a term.
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Part 2: Review of Failure.
List 3 things that failure IS:
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List 3 things that failure ISN’T:%
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Think about a time that you have “failed” in the classroom or in college and answer the following
questions:
What happened?
What caused this failure?
How did it make you feel?
What could you have done differently?
What did you learn?
Did anything good come from this failure?
How do you feel now about the situation?
If you do fail something in college, what are some next steps you can take? Write them down.
Failed a test Possible actions:
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Failed a class Possible actions:
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Failed a term Possible actions:
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Part 3: Failure in everyday life.
Although we have been discussing failure in college, the same reflection and analysis can apply to
everyday mistakes and failures.
Think about a time that you have “failed” or made a mistake in everyday life and answer the
following questions:
What happened?
What caused this failure?
How did it make you feel?
What could you have done differently?
What did you learn?
Did anything good come from this failure?
How do you feel now about the situation?