Giving the feedback properly is a good way to encourage and motivate the learner. Though some stakeholders like teachers, peers and parents does give pressure and punishment to the learners and it creates a trauma or affect the learners’ mental health status. One of my experience is, one of our class in elementary gives alot of pressure to us. Before our class with that subject, we make sure that we studied or else if we fail to answer the questions of our teacher we would stand the whole class and we could only have our seat if we gave the correct answer. Also, one of my teacher would slap a stick on our hands if we gave a wrong answer. It is painful and traumatic experience but it allowed us to cope and study harder. Although, I also have a good teacher. She is very considerate and would talk to us privately if we got a low score on our exam. She would even motivate us by giving us a reward.
For me, giving pressure and punishment would somehow give learning to the students but a large portion of traumatic experience would always linger to their mind whenever an experience would be repeated. Giving a right feedback like the one that my teacher taught us, “Kiss-kick-kiss” allow us to be motivated and at the same time would consider the suggestion or recommendation of our classmates and teacher so that we could improve on our work.
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