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- Title: Blue, Orange, White, And Brown: Causality, Values, And the Impact of Messages (Editorial)
- Author : Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 202 KB
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It is a simple question. I ask the 'teachers-to-be" in my university classes at the beginning of every term: "How many of you have benefited from exposure to hostile, negative, and caustic comments from a teacher?" I provide a second version: "How many of you find yourselves attending to a lesson and learning better after the teacher criticizes you or attempts to embarrass you in front of the class?" I give a third version: "How many of you have been made good by being told you were bad?" I continually hope that these questions will refute the notion that threats and punishment are the proper strategies for managing a classroom of students and an effective way of promoting a learning environment. I have never had anyone tell me that they prefer learning within a caustic hurtful environment So, my conclusion for them is, "Don't use threatening or hurtful strategies ... you don't want them; your students will not want them either." These messages are convincing mainly based on personal values. Students, teachers, and I generally share the belief that kindness is a preferable state of affairs over hostility.