3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV

Issue #101, 14th June 2022

Good job! Well done! Super! How smart! That’s clever! said and heard that? how did it make you feel? how did it impact your efforts? How do you think praise impacts your student or your child? Does the vocabulary of praise matter? Sharing here some thoughts on praise, let me know if any of it resonates with you.

Three Images of the Week

Two Thoughts of the Week

“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ” Bertrand Russell

“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only because our power of judgment is more entirely exposed by being over-praised than by being unjustly underestimated.” Friedrich Nietzsche

One Video of the Week

Praise and compliments are familiar features of speech, especially in schools where positive motivation is valued. But few of us give much thought to the vocabulary we use when complimenting others. A careful analysis of the language of compliments can help ensure that our words achieve maximum positive impact. Bety has lived in and around Prague her whole life, attending various Czech schools before coming to the International School of Prague in 10th grade.

The ideas in this talk were inspired by Bety’s applied linguistics project from 2018. Praise and compliments are familiar features of speech, especially in schools where positive motivation is valued. But few of us give much thought to the vocabulary we use when complimenting others. A careful analysis of the language of compliments can help ensure that our words achieve maximum positive impact. Bety has lived in and around Prague her whole life, attending various Czech schools before coming to the International School of Prague in 10th grade.

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