Correcting every mistake in a student's work could demotivate them. |
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Votes: 339
Comments: 5
Added: August 2003
| JT - 4th December 2003 13:30 |
| Failure to correct so as not to demotivate seems a recipe for disaster. If it's wrong, it's wrong. |
| absolutes - 19th February 2007 20:00 |
| Dear JT, I hope you aren't a teacher? |
| Chunky - 15th August 2007 22:48 |
| I agree with JT. We learn by our mistakes after all. |
| Leo Girard - 23rd September 2007 18:07 |
| Psychologists tell us the best kind of reinforcement is intermittent: some (+) and some (-). This is why gambling is so addictive. Correct the galring mistakes and a few minor ones. |
| Statuess - 2nd November 2009 09:25 |
| I think if there are a lot of minor mistakes, it would be very demotivating to see each marked out (the monstrous task of fixing them all). Instead, maybe, a few rules that they're constantly getting wrong should be written for them so they can be encouraged to check through themselves. If worst comes to worst, cross it all out and write a big, red 'See me!' If there are few mistakes, I think they should all be marked. |
