Feedback Strategies

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The first article I read is 'Be a Mirror: Give Readers Feedback That Fosters a Growth Mindset'. (https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2015/12/08/be-a-mirror-give-readers-feedback-that-fosters-a-growth-mindset).

The article talks about how it is important for people, as Carol Dweck says, to have a good mindset that allows them to do the best they are capable of and to not develop a hurtful one that will hold them back.

The article goes on further about five incredibly important qualities one should have when giving feedback so that it helps a person develop a good mindset. Out of all of these qualities the most important and fascinating quality I thought is to take yourself out of the feedback. This quality refers to how when giving feedback, one should take themselves out of the feedback they are giving and focus more on the person who is reading the feedback, that way the reader does not feel like they are just doing things to please another person, but rather doing something that will help them grow further.

The second article I read is 'The Difference between Praise and Feedback'. (https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/34778/the-difference-between-praise-and-feedback).

This article talks about how giving a person praise does more damage than good as it can cause someone to have a fixed mindset on doing things and therefore will back out of taking on any challenge in the future.

The article goes further to tackle the idea of praise versus feedback and how most of the time parents will just tell their children to try harder rather than taking the time to understand what their child is struggling with and helping them overcome their struggle.

I completely agree with this idea, sometimes it does feel as though parents are too hyper focused on the small details, asking their children to get the best grades but never actually take the time to look at what their child is doing and when their already high expectations aren't met, rather than sitting their child down to talk about where they might struggle and guiding them and improving their mindset, the parents almost every time will go to some kind of punishment that ends up hurting their child's mentality on their own abilities even further.