Developing Risk Taking in Students
by Cheryl Robson
1. Encouraging students to try out for sports or plays helps cultivate risk taking skills in children
2. Provide tools for experimentation
2.1. (Like TinkerSchool)
3. Provide a "safe" and "nurturing" environment for experimentation
4. Engage students in thinking "outside the box"
5. Provide an environment that rewards "heroes" (the game's high scorers) - competition
6. Playing games with kids of all ages.
7. Provide activities that are engaging and meaningful and students are comfortable to learn.
8. Have students set goals that are attainable and motivating
9. Open ended games and open ended software
10. JILL, JARONIA, CHERYL
11. Recognize failure as an ACCEPTED place on the pathway to success
12. Gaming
13. Provide teaming opportunities in order to make risk taking "safer"
14. Model risk taking behaviors for students
15. Encouraging kids to try something new
16. Encouraging multiple solutions to a problem
17. Carefully used, conflict can be a route to change
