Feedback Strategies

 Article by Jennifer Gonzalez - The Trouble with “Amazing”: Giving Praise that Matters

In the article, Jennifer mentioned the word "amazing". I think this word can be great but when parents tell their kids that they have done an amazing job at their work and pressure them to get amazing grades or else they won't be amazing is where they go wrong. Kids have pressure from their parents to get good grades but instead of feeling the pressure to get that "amazing" from their parents they should challenge themselves and get an "amazing" even when they did not get the grades that they wanted but still knowing they challenged themselves. Jennifer mentioned that effective feedback is specifically giving an example, of her 6-year-old son tying his shoelace and instead of Jennifer saying he did "amazing" she should tell him something along the lines of "great knot, a lot better this time" and In my opinion, it's a correct way of looking at it. Feedback can sometimes be less meaningful and a "great job" or "nice" won't do anything for the person and it won't make them challenge themselves so I agree with Jennifer and that effective feedback should be specific and that will motivate them to go on. 


Article by Gravity Goldberg - Be a Mirror: Give Readers Feedback That Fosters a Growth Mindset


I enjoyed reading this article and the mentioning of a growth mindset. I have been really interested in growth mindset and I agree that focusing feedback on the effort will emphasize more growth mindset qualities because you are given positive feedback on your challenges and learning outcome. The final point in the article mentions that the best feedback is given when you take yourself out of the equation and I agree with that because when someone comes up to you giving feedback with their sentence going " I think......" you straight away go " great cant wait to hear this....." and in the future, I will definitely be taking myself out of the equation when giving any feedback. 

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I agree that giving feedbacks is very important and in order for you to get from one point to the other you need feedback. Feedback is given to improve someones situation or help them out but also feedback is given to motivate and it's a tool for continued learning and growing.  

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