Feedback Strategies Ideas

 

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The first article that I’m going to give my thoughts on is “The Difference Between Praise and Feedback”, I think it was a very insightful article as it talks about process praise, person praise and parents giving any type of feedback to their children.

 I found the article to be interesting because it talks about process praise which means to praise someone on process and effort while person praise focuses on individual qualities and traits.  I think process praise is an interesting technique to use as it motivates children to take on challenging tasks and to try hard in what ever they do. And it seems to be effective as one of Dweck’s study results.

showed that “the greater use of process praise with these very young children predicted their later desire to take on new challenges, which in turn influenced these children’s math achievement seven years later, in fourth grade. But I found Author Alfie Kohn’s views on praises equal as interesting as he believes you should not make your child feel pressured to achieve and shame if they don’t. But you should love them and approve of them no matter what they do.

 Overall, I thought the article was very informative in how parents can give praise and feedback to their children to help them to want to take on challenges and to let them know making mistakes is a process to get better.

 

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The second article that I am going to give my thoughts is “The Trouble with Amazing: Giving Praise that Matters”. I thought this article was very enjoyable to read and it gave a good insight on how advice in various settings can impact someone the part I took most importance to was when Jennifer talks about telling someone they are amazing and the bad effects it could have.

 I thought it was interesting when she talked about the feelings contestants went through in American Idol when they would get judged for their performance and how their expression would change when its Simons turn because they know that he is harsh and critical so his opinion would count the most. The contestants would rather have harsh genuine feedback than feedback that’s says they were perfect even when they know themselves that they made mistakes, because it feels wrong.

This is bad effect Is also shown when Jennifer goes to her cardio weight class once or twice a week, she finds it hard but like to push herself, one day she gets a young substitute instructor who gives the class easy tasks, and she tells the class they are amazing. But Jennifer doesn’t feel like she didn’t work hard enough to be called amazing.

Overall, I thought this article was very good, I thought that Jennifer’s point on being complimented even though you know you didn’t work hard enough or made mistakes, won’t give you satisfaction.