Developing Risk Taking in Students

by Cheryl Robson

1. Recognize failure as an ACCEPTED place on the pathway to success

2. Encouraging students to try out for sports or plays helps cultivate risk taking skills in children

3. Provide tools for experimentation

3.1. (Like TinkerSchool)

4. Gaming

5. Provide teaming opportunities in order to make risk taking "safer"

6. Provide a "safe" and "nurturing" environment for experimentation

7. Model risk taking behaviors for students

8. Engage students in thinking "outside the box"

9. Provide an environment that rewards "heroes" (the game's high scorers) - competition

10. Encouraging kids to try something new

11. Playing games with kids of all ages.

12. Provide activities that are engaging and meaningful and students are comfortable to learn.

13. Have students set goals that are attainable and motivating

14. Open ended games and open ended software

15. Encouraging multiple solutions to a problem

16. Carefully used, conflict can be a route to change

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