Feedback Strategies

The two articles I choose to read were Be a Mirror and What Kind of Messages Help Kids Grow

"Be a mirror" also refers back to Carol Dweck , its to do with your mindset.                                   Normally whenever I receive feedback, i normally feel as though its all criticism  more so than anything else but by looking at the quality steps in this article its actually a much nicer way to give people feedback with not making them feel like their work they've done was poor.

Qualities:

1. be specific
2. focus on what there doing, not what there missing
3. focus on their process
4. make sure the feedback transfers
5. take yourself out of the feedback

Be a mirror for the other person to see what they can achieve by this feedback/ what else they can do.

In the second article, it says to get rid of the generic praises  when praises kids like "wow!" "Great job!" "Well done!"

Carol Dwek is already influencing parents with the growth mindset and the "Yet" 

So when a child says " I cant do it" the parents are now replying with "you cant do it yet" to give the kids hope and make there mindset growth instead of fixed, to push themselves and want to challenge to achieve and not let failure define them.

Power to "Yet" Video

From constantly reading articles about the growth mindset its opened my eyes to believing the power of Yet and how it doesn't make you feel like a failure, you just haven't completed the task but your nearly there, and I do believe this theory of feedback will work.

Feedback Thoughts

 I've just read two articles , one called Why its so hard to hear negative feedback by Tom Herrera and  7 ways to crush self doubt in creative work by John Spencer

The first one I want to talk about is "Why its so hard to hear negative feedback"

To be so honest, I HATE negative feedback  because I feel its so degrading and I always tense up and in the article it literally describes just that so like its normal for people to feel that way and  we will literally try so hard to avoid those people who give us negative feedback.

It talks about how people delivering the feedback shouldn't  just sugar-coat it they should be honest and say how it could be improved and also because when we receive hard feedback we just don't want to agree with it and it will just piss us off but when you do receive feed back use it for self improvement and try to just think that everything being said to you is all done in good faith!

From reading the "7 ways to crush self doubt" has actually made me want to open my eyes more to a growth mindset, the steps are actually really helpful and motivating.

I always compare my work to others in this course, which I really shouldn't because everyone is different but from even just reading this article its just shown me to trust and believe in myself. As I've already read about the growth mindset (and keep reading more) that's really made me want to make challenge my new comfort zone.

Definitely recommend yous to give these a read!!