• Right to learn at your own speed and not feel slower than others
• Right to ask for clarification
• Right to need and ask for help
• Right to say you didn't understand something
• A right to feel good about your progress regardless of your abilities
• Right to consider yourself capable of understanding the lesson
• Right to rest and relax
• Right to be treated as a competent and mature adult
• Right to dislike a class
• Right to have your own definition of success

COMMON MISTAKES

• If I fail this test I will definitely fail the class
• If I fail this test my teachers/friends/family will not appreciate me
• I will feel like a failure if I fail this test
• My fellow students are smarter. No one has a problem. I'm alone.
• If I don't succeed now I won't succeed in any class
• Because many have expectations for me I must succeed
• To feel worthy I have to be smart, capable and successful
• Life is always fair
• If I don't answer the first question correctly I will probably fail
• To write a good paper I need to use grand words and difficult concepts/definitions