The first article that I read was "What Kind of Messages Help Kids Grow?" This article discusses how the language used towards kids impacts their mentality. Positive feedback to children can teach them to mentally have a model of how people learn and grow. Its important to introduce children to growth mindsets, from the research shown in this article growth mindsets help kids to view failure as a positive thing which they learn from and acknowledge their mistakes in order to improve in the future. The language used by parents towards their kids has a huge impact on them and their well being. If a parent congratulates their child on their failures they learn to see failure and mistakes as a learning process. The article also speaks about how a parent/teacher should tell the child what's good about their work specifically. The power of yet also comes into play again in this article. By telling the child they can't do it "yet" they gain perspective and positivity. By expressing a personal story on how you overcame a problem to a child makes them more resilient when confronted with a challenge. I found this article to be very informative especially when dealing with children either in a learning environment or a home environment.
The second article that I read was titled "Be a Mirror." This article discussed how we can give fellow students positive feedback and show them what they're doing well. In return this emphasizes the students growth and mindset qualities. The mirror aspect of this title means to give positive feedback without judgement. The article then goes through 5 main qualities of feedback such as specifying an aspect of their work and focusing on that. Next is to focus on what exactly the reader is doing. Then we are told to focus on the amount of work the reader has put into what they're doing and the process. The fourth quality is to make sure it can transfer so its important to name what the reader is doing and discuss how they can use in a different context. The last quality is to take yourself out of the feedback. Start with saying the readers name and keep the focus on them.
Feedback is always important especially to students. These strategies really explore how we can give feedback the right way.
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