How to Give Effective Feedback, Both Positive and Negative Why is that? One reason is that as people gain expertise, feedback serves a different purpose. When people are just beginning a venture, they may not have much confidence, and they need encouragement. But experts’ commitment “is more secure than novices and their focus is on their progress,” the paper’s authors said. Even labeling feedback as either negative or positive isn’t helpful, said Tim Harford, author of “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure.” That, of course, is much easier said than done, which is why most of us have such trouble giving or getting critiques. We don’t want to be the bad guy. Early in her career, when she worked at Walmart, she had to tell an employee that she wasn’t doing a good job. Mr. “We say, ‘That was a great piece of work, there was just a small problem,’ ” Mr. The better way, Ms. Research bears that out. Some companies have developed their own terminology for feedback. Here’s an example he offers in his book. Continue reading the main story
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Teacher: A student told me I ‘couldn’t understand because I was a white lady.’ Here’s what I did then. Emily E. Smith is a fifth-grade social justice and English language arts teacher at Cunningham Elementary School in Austin, Tex. She was just awarded the 2015 Donald H. Graves Excellence in the Teaching of Writing award given at the National Teachers of English Language Arts Convention in Minneapolis. Smith created and founded The Hive Society, a classroom that inspires children to creatively explore literature through critical thinking and socially relevant texts. In her speech accepting the award, Smith talked about a seminal moment in her career when she realized she needed to change her approach to teaching students of color, one of whom told her that she couldn’t understand his problems because she is white. Texas fifth-grade teacher Emily E. I’m white.
Thomas Hart Benton — The Sources of Country Music Activity 1. Becoming Country In Activity 1, students will identify the sources of folk music based on their own observations and compare their findings to the thoughts of the artist. To prepare for this activity, you will need Internet access. Step 1: Project an image of The Sources of Country Music on the board and give students a copy of it. Step 2: Divide the class into pairs or small groups of 3 or 4 students. Where do you see music played in the painting? Allow students 10–15 minutes to complete this exercise. Step 3: Elicit responses to the questions and write them on the board. (5 min) Step 4: Have students watch The Sources of Country Music video (25 min) [note that this streaming video takes time to load] and complete the following questions. What steps does Benton follow to create the mural? Activity 2. Any number of activities can be included here depending on the interests of students. 2A – The Banjo Player (Internet required) Banjo Spirits (29 minutes) Streaming Online Questions:
Theo Jansen visits the University of Iowa | Research and Economic Development | The University of Iowa “I like to balance between reality and imagination,” Theo Jansen said Tuesday morning during the breakfast reception of his visit to the University of Iowa. “We have to dream our lives and not just exist.” Jansen came as part of the Creative Matters lecture series sponsored by the Office of Research and Economic Development, seeking to demonstrate that creativity is not only at the core of research and discovery, but is also central to our human experience. His own life’s work is a pinnacle of this philosophy. The Strandbeest came into conception in 1990 when Jansen wrote a newspaper column about skeletons that could build dunes on the beaches to protect the Netherlands from predicted rising sea levels. “I decided to spend one year with them, and then it got out of hand,” Jansen said. His first creature could only move its legs when lying on its back. Jansen talks about the evolution of the Strandbeest. “People have the feeling they are alive because of their legs,” he says.
Before and Beyond the Constitution: What Should a President do? “… the executive authority, with few exceptions, is to be vested in a single magistrate. This will scarcely, however, be considered as a point upon which any comparison can be grounded; for if, in this particular, there be a resemblance to the king of Great Britain, there is not less a resemblance to the … khan of Tartary, to the Man of the Seven Mountains....”—Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist Papers 69 on the EDSITEment-reviewed website Avalon Project at the Yale Law School “if you adopt this government, you will incline to an arbitrary and odious aristocracy or monarchy…” —Anti-Federalist Paper Cato #5 Executive Power on the Constitution Society website, a link from the EDSITEment resource Internet Public Library At the time the Founders were shaping the future of a new country, John Adams suggested the President should be addressed as "His Excellency."
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My Blackboard Check Browser | Help | Log In CONCORD UNIVERSITY Entry Page Welcome. Course List View course information Enroll in courses that allow self-registration Log In Log in to the Blackboard Learning System Schools Need Introverted Teachers, But Avoiding Burnout a Challenge It’s generally believed that the teaching profession is better suited to extroverts. While hugely rewarding, it is exceptionally demanding, noisy, chaotic and educators are always under the microscope. But there are many introverted teachers across the country, who, as a recent article in The Atlantic concluded, are more vulnerable to burnout than their extroverted colleagues. Jessica Honard agrees. A self-described introvert, Honard left the classroom after five years after she reluctantly concluded that the relentless daily pressure eclipsed what she loved about teaching high school English. In your first year in the classroom, were you prepared for the pressures of teaching? Jessica Honard: No. What were the conditions at your school that made it particularly hard for you? JH: I loved teaching. Jessica Honard What kind of support system was in place at your school or were you more or less on your own? JH: The administration did what they could to support the teachers.
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