Teaching Life Lessons to Teachers Too

The power of positive feedback as a classroom strategy

Jan 15, 2010
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Submitted by: Paula Schwed

Kids are not the only ones who need to be taught life lessons that develop their social and emotional intelligence. Marti Schwartz's blog post about how she gradually realized the power of positive feedback on her students is a reminder that these social and emotional skills should be systematically taught to everyone who deals with young people, in school and out of school.

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is it too late?

On February 1st, 2010 cristy mccrery says:

At WINGS for kids, we have WINGSLeaders do classroom sit-ins twice out of the school year. When they do these sit-ins, they find out so much about their kids and how their days are before they come to WINGS. One WINGSLeader said he understood why his kids were always in a bad mood when they came into WINGS because when he was in the classroom earlier that day, he saw how the kids were getting yelled at for no reason at all. Kids need to receive positive feedback because it builds up their confidence and self-esteem, which is hard to have when the world seems to be superficial. So my question is, by the time you get older and are set in your ways and have been teaching a certain way and have a certain style, is it too late?

Goes a long way

On January 31st, 2010 Bridget Laird says:
Positive feedback is a major ingredient of the WINGS program. We ensure our Program Directors provide their staff plenty of positive feedback and that all staff compliment each other. In addition, all of our staff give tons of positive feedback to our kids on a daily basis. It makes a huge difference within our program.  It allows everyone to walk away feeling good and knowing what makes them special and unique. We go as far as to monitor this feeback to make sure it is happening because it is so critical.