{"id":21,"date":"2007-05-13T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/attalim.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/13\/promoting-positive-self-esteem-marking-papers\/"},"modified":"2007-05-13T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T15:57:00","slug":"promoting-positive-self-esteem-marking-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taalim.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/13\/promoting-positive-self-esteem-marking-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Positive Self-Esteem: Marking Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"float: right;margin: 3px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-4904471974338763\";\ngoogle_alternate_color = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 125;\ngoogle_ad_height = 125;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"125x125_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"1838017730\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"\";\ngoogle_ui_features = \"rc:6\";\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div><p>Many of the things teachers do to promote, or inhibit, positive self-esteem,                comes from unintended actions. There are obvious things teachers do,                such as who is called on in the class, who&#8217;s papers are posted on                the bulletin boards&#8230;but there are less obvious things that are done;                actions which directly affect the students positive self-esteem. The                most frequent area where this is the case is with marking student                papers.<\/p>\n<p>The following are some quick tips which any teacher can immediately                use in improving the positive self-esteem in the classroom:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>NEVER GRADE IN RED INK.<\/b> Red is a &#8220;negative&#8221; color.                  Think: stop signs and lights, warning labels, poisen, etc. Our society                  has conditioned us to immediately view red as something negative.                  Subconsciously, (and often conscientiously), a paper that is handed                  back full of red marks tells the student that he or she is a &#8220;dummy&#8221;.                  A &#8220;self-fulfilling prophesy&#8221; often results with these                  students!                <\/li>\n<li><b>USE GREEN OR BLUE INK.<\/b> Green, on the other hand, is a &#8220;positive&#8221;                  color, as is blue to a lesser extent. When green is used, corrections,                  or markings, become more of a &#8220;constructive criticism&#8221;                  type of comment.                <\/li>\n<li><b>USE A SLASH &#8220;\/&#8221; RATHER THAN AN &#8220;X&#8221; WHEN                  MARKING A WRONG ANSWER.<\/b> Again, for the same reasons one does                  not use red ink. The &#8220;X&#8221; is a negative symbol.                <\/li>\n<li><b>MARK NUMBER RIGHT OUT OF THE TOTAL, VERSUS MINUS THE NUMBER                  WRONG.<\/b> Do you accentuate the positive, or the negative? 2\/20                  still looks better than -18.              <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/dl>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">                  <\/div>\n<p>Also be aware of cultural differences. For instance, NEVER            write a Korean student&#8217;s name using red ink (even if it&#8217;s a friendly note            to the child). In the Korean culture, writing someone&#8217;s name in red is            a sign of death! Korean parents are often horrified when papers come home            with their child&#8217;s name written in red!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the things teachers do to promote, or inhibit, positive self-esteem, comes from unintended actions. There are obvious things teachers do, such as who is called on in the class, who&#8217;s papers are posted on the bulletin boards&#8230;but there are less obvious things that are done; actions which directly affect the students positive self-esteem. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/taalim.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/13\/promoting-positive-self-esteem-marking-papers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Promoting Positive Self-Esteem: Marking Papers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evaluation","category-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taalim.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taalim.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taalim.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taalim.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taalim.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taalim.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taalim.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taalim.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taalim.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}