Students · During the lesson
“I’m just bad at this”
Students who believe they’re bad at a subject give up before they try, and every mistake confirms it.
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How Pencil Spaces solves it
A student says she’s just bad at math. Every mistake proves it to her, and she gives up before she starts.
Her tutor opens Progress Review, which summarizes her performance across many lessons. It shows her fractions from September next to her fractions now. In September she missed most of them, and now she misses one.
She looks at it for a long moment. The next time she gets one right, her tutor fills the screen with confetti, and she laughs. She still makes mistakes, but now she sees them as part of getting better.
- Progress ReviewAvailableProgress Review summarizes a student’s performance across many lessons, so they see how far they’ve come.
- CelebrationsAvailableCelebrations fill every screen with confetti for a right answer or a birthday, plus reactions and stickers.
The usual way
Teachers offer encouragement that students don’t believe.
A tip you can use today
Show students their own work from a month ago next to today’s.
See it in a live Space.
We’ll walk you through it, shaped around how you teach.
