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Skyler and William

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Manuela Teixeira-Portugal
If we don't empower our students with learning strategies, they will never feel that they have an active role in their learning process

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- reverse brainstorming exercise -
It is very easy to weaken our students’ confidence and independence.

If we instill doubt that what we are doing in the class is meaningless and non-purposeful, they will be disoriented.

If students feel that they are obliged to remain in the classroom but this isn’t something they have chosen and they consider meaningful, their motivation will collapse.

If they don’t see any purpose, when they will stumble or get off track during the project they won’t be able to find their bearing and go on with the project.
So we should do the opposite of this.

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As a language I can easily weaken students' self-confidence by interrupting them when they speak and correcting every mistake they make or by asking them difficult questions.

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I personally weaken my  students by giving more enphasys to the mistakes they make rather than the parts in which they've actually been very good at.
Another way is by avoiding to highlight the progresses they made and not being available to more clear explanations using different strategies.

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When I read the answer from Artemis, also from Greece, I felt like she was reading my mind :-)!
" When we promote a teacher centered learning process, when we never listen to our students opinions, when we ask a question and we answer at the same time never giving the opportunity and time to the students to think and answer,  when we are constantly judging and never encouraging our students, when we are being sarcastic and taunt their behaviour or mistakes then we don't leave much space to their confidence and independence." I can't agree more!

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I like Vaidte's Decalogue and the infographics Federica attached. I agree with them. I will add them to my learning diary, thanks a lot.

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Encourage active involvement of all group members in meaningful and well planned and allocated activities while promoting mutual respect .

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the Teachers weaken their students when they don't give them the opportunity to be part of the lesson , when they always teach the same things in the same way without  enthusiasm.

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IDEAS TO ENCOURAGE ACTIVE STUDENT LEARNING

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10 WAYS TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR LEARNING
1. Don’t make all the decisions.
2. Don’t play guess what’s in my head.
3. Talk less.
4. Model behaviors and attitudes that promote learning.
5. Ask for feedback.
6. Test less.
7.  Encourage goal setting and reflection.
8. Don’t over plan.
9.  Focus on learning, not work.
10.  Organise student led conferences.

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When we never listen to our students, when we aren't empathic and we don't try to help our children during their learning process, when we have prejudices and we judge them instead of encourage them to be the protagonists of their learning process.

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I agree with Raffaella and Rossana, we have to teach before all how to be positive

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When we promote a teacher centered learning process, when we never listen to our students opinions, when we ask a question and we answer at the same time never giving the opportunity and time to the students to think and answer,  when we are constantly judging and never encouraging our students, when we are being sarcastic and taunt their behaviour or mistakes then we don't leave much space to their confidence and independence.

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When we insist on giving the students the same kind of activities, and explanations, even when they have failed before.

When we try to control the whole process, and give them no chance to make elections or decide some parts of their process.

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When we insist on giving the students the same kind of activities, and explanations, even when they have failed before.

When we try to control the whole process, and give them no chance to make elections or decide some parts of their process.

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I agree with each post of you, but especially with what
Panagiota Papaioannou, Greece
said   "we can weaken children's confidence and independence by being always judgmental on what they do, by never giving them positive feedback, by not encouraging collaboration in class and in general by creating a negative environment!"
So I think we should be always positive with our students especially the ones who are shy and unsecure. They will  be able to become great adults if we believe in them.

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When I go back my years in education journey, I see that I have learnt by falling into mistakes.But my teachers always encouraged me to reach success.If they weakened my belief in my way I would probably be unsuccessful.

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I think students learn more if they feel their teacher cares and supports them. Learning environment is extremely important and motivation is the key to success.

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Independence and confidence comes when the teacher accepts that "there is not only one way to do things. Each way is way done."
work resilience with students: before the students give up, the teacher poses new challenge...

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A teacher can have a negative impact on the sense of self-efficacy of students and thereby inhibit the development of resilience when he shows his disappointment and continually criticizes the work of their students. The students will inevitably tend to consider themselves incapable and inadequate to the problems they have before, and because they will not feel motivated and adequately stimulated, they will not try to do their best to resolve it.

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I loved what Cristina Parente from Portugal shared on Padlet. I totally agree with her statements.
My contribution to weaken our students’ confidence and independence are the following ones. You must:

Say to them that they can’t do it.

Criticise them, especially in front of the class.

Give them work which is far too demanding.

Laugh at their mistakes.

Give no feedback to their grades or process.

that scaffolding is not necessary.

not plan your classes ahead.

Do teacher-centred classes.

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As teachers we know our students’ weaknesses and strengths. So it’s up to us to weaken the weaknesses and strenghten their strenghts.
We have the power to do both: develop students’ autonomy and confidence, and weaken students’ confidence and independence in a second!
Teachers can weaken students confidence and independence if they:
1.criticize students all the time, especially in front of the class;
2. don’t encourage them to learn from their mistakes;
3. don’t offer them opportunities to experience success;
4. don’t praise them for trying to give the right answer;
5. don’t tell them they can do well;
6. the lesson isn't student-centred;
7. don’t give them space and time to think by themselves;
8. just listen to the student and not the students (the group).
Positive relationships lead to a  favorable learning climate. To develop positive teacher-student relationships, teachers have to be and act positively, use “Yes” and “Do’s” more and use less “No” and “Don’ts”.

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It is very easy to weaken our students' confidence. We can start by telling them that we are sure that they are not going to succeed in the lesson. Then we give them extremely difficult tasks and very limited time.
A supportive classroom environment caters for all learners separately according to learner types and learning needs. We encourage all learners to participate in project and give understandable instructions according to what they already know. We have high expectations from them and praise them

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My worst lessons are those when I am so obsessed about completing an activity to fulfill a book scrutiny. On reflection I find I have missed lots of opportunities for learning by ignoring the students reactions and ideas. I find the students have completed an activity however their learning is minimal.

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We will definitely weaken students' confidence and resilience if we give them tasks that we know are too difficult to fulfill, do not offer them the amount of time they need to rummage on them and with a negative response to their efforts we tell them what should have been done. One might think that facing them with their failure is constructive: nobody should be shown on purpose that they failed. The one in need should be helped not blamed!

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We can weaken our students confidence and resilience when we ask close answered questions. When we shut down their open minded responses with correct/incorrect. The tone and manner in which we provide constructive criticism. By not giving students time to reflect on learning process and to ask questions/ explain their own strengths and weaknesses.

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We weaken our students' resilience when we tend to criticize their performances in an unrespectful way, and we never praise them. Also, when we always force them to do school tasks they don't like and that are too difficult for their level of competence.

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We shouldn't undermine student's confidence by continuously marking out their mistakes, providing negative feedback and complaining about what they did not achieve. By avoiding listening to their needs and not telling them that learning is a process where mistakes or failures are a key part of it. Without error making there's not any learning outcome.

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We can undermine the confidence of our students negatively criticizing their work, giving them more difficult tasks than those who are able to do or giving them insufficient time. Telling them to leave it alone because they will not make much ever.

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We might weaken students confidence and autonomy by complaining  about (and blaiming ) "the system" for our own misfortunes, giving them the impression that no matter how hard they try they will never be as good as others who have more money or connections than them.
Of course, all the things mentioned by my colleagues on this pedlet can contribute to a low self-esteem.

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We can weaken our students' confidence and autonomy if we give them tasks that are too difficult, if we criticize them in a rude way, if we show them that they are not important and that we don't care about their opinions, if we think that they will never succeed.

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I don't think it is very difficult to weaken our students' confidence: first we can start with ignoring their efforts and judging them only by their mistakes and failures. Then we might keep deploring their frailties instead of praising their potentialities.
I hate writing this, because it is exactly the opposite of what I do in class.
I think the best way to create a supportive classroom environment is to underline the role of every student, with their individual features, and to make evident how everyone can have an active role in tyhe life of the class.

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Every time we criticize publicly, use sarcasm or forget to highlight good aspect but never forget to call attention to weeknesses or don't adapt our teaching to students' individual needs we are weakening students' confidence.

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We can weaken students without hearing to their needs and didn't knowing their passion

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I think we can weaken students confidence by
1) being too critical,
2) not providing constructive criticism,
3) being too strict in some cases,
4) not listening to them,
5) by teaching in a way that is too difficult for them and not allowing them to fully understand or follow the class at their pace

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In my opinion, students need to feel confident about their skills so as to move forward. Traditional teaching and assessment methods such as lectures and continuous exams usually work as a means of pressure and create anxiety and uncertainty to the students.
On the other hand, if teachers try to organise their lesson according to the student's individual needs and skills, they are more likely to feel certain of their strong points and spot their weaknesses and improve in a more relaxed context.

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In my opinion, we can weaken children's confidence and independence by being always judjemental on what they do, by never giving them positive feedback, by not encouraging collaboration in class and in general by creating a negative environment !

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We as educators can strengthen our students confidence an independance if as  it was formentioned in the video:
1.We praise our student in front of all the classroom but crisize only in private.
2. We give positive and constructive feedback.
3. We built on what they already know and can do.
4. We provide a positive and accepting environment.
5. We develop their skills (criticall, collaborative, communicative)
6. We nourish their curiosity, selfconfidence - self esteem and imagination
7. We teach them how to learn

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First of all, I think that building self-confidence demands mostly an individual effort. Of course, this effort can be fostered by parents and teachers. For me, two things are  very important: the first one is that we should teach by examples, tell students about our personal failures and our way to gain from that.Explain that there are many ways to learn something: one of them is to make mistakes.
Secondly, we must be friendly and have fun with our students.That makes them more cool and free to speak! Self -confidence and resilience are inter-depended: you cannot be the one, if you are not the other!

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I think that by providing a traditional way of teaching concentrated on teacher's lecture and on individual work of the students,teachers can weaken student'sonfidence and independence. Indeed, by adopting a superior intonation and by developing a tensioned atmosphere in the classroom,by discouraging students and showing them their mistakes all the time, teachers can weaken students; confidence and independence.

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Student confidence and indipendence are often weakened from lack of multiplicity in learning methods, collaboration opportunities, tools investigations and active connection between teachers. However this multitude of opportunities has to be carefully managed in order to let students clearly: know their role in the process, share the main pursued tasks; percieve the "gradualness" of a learing path and feel their environment as invaluable resources to interact with.

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In my opinion a teacher can weaken students' confidence by not allowing them to express themselves in the classroom and creating a negative educational environment, where students aren’t praised by teacher and they didn’t got positive feedback. When it happens, they feel disappointed. Only in a creative environment where students feel happy can they learn without stress.

We can weaken our student's confidence and independence if we ignore them and we don't give them the possibility to express their opinion. When a student said something wrong, we have to see it in a positive way because students are often frightened to fail or make mistakes.

When we constantly focus on what is negative, students end up believing that they won't be able to succeed. This is why positive assessment and positive criticism is so important. Teachers should never attack a student's integrity or make offensive comparisons. We should support students and give every student the chance to be successful in our class.

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Well it so easy to lower and degradate our pupils self-confidence and sense of achievement . The only way to understand this akward situation for our students is to imagine or try to be in their shoe.How easy would it be for us , if someone we counted on for positive criticism and encourament tell us simply Q: 'You are a looser , you can't just make it " ???

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I think of my own experience as a learner in a highly competitive environment. Teachers praised top level students, giving high marks to those who were word-perfect in repeating the lessons by heart. The process of learning was never investigated; no support or encouragement was ever given. Individual competition was silently appreciated. Little motivated or weak students were simply out

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I think we stress our students when we give them too difficult tasks and our only aim is to complete our plan. Because I think schhol plan have to be flexible and it have to go after habilities and efforts of our students.

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I think we weaken our students when we propose too difficult activities. I think the level should be difficult enough to not make they feel bored, but not too difficult to make they stress and unmotivated.

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I think, we as teachers can undermine the confidence and independence of our student when :
·        we underline their failures and bad behaviours without considering them a way to grow up and improve knowledge, give them negative encouragement saying they do many mistakes or they are not able to improve. When There is a lack of positive reinforcement "Great!" " Well done ! " , "Congratulations !"

·         When we don’t consider them cappable enough to take their own decisions.

·         When we don't give them any freedom of speech .

·         when we give them the solution to a problem without letting them to collaborate each other to find it.

·         when we never smile

·        We assign tasks that they are not able to develop or don't like

·         We do not show them that we all fail and we can learn from such failures.

·         We do not hear them because we have a program to complete

Every day we have be aware of the feelings of our students and they will show us if we are on the right way.

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We as teachers can undermine the confidence and independence of our student when :
- We have no account of their skills ;
- We assign tasks that they are not able to develop ;
- There is a lack of positive reinforcement "Great!" " Well done ! " , "Congratulations !";
- We do not show them that we all fail and we can learn from such failures ;
- We do not hear them because we have a program to complete
- Teachers are not patient ...
There are so many reasons and attitudes that teachers take that undermine the success of students. Every day we have to reflect on our actions and change.

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We can weake students confidence if we always control them - we should give them some space to devolope their own conclusion, capasity. But we must pay attention on them and be there for them in any case if they need help.
We should be positive and belive in them.

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Teachers would weaken their students' confidence just by saying: "YOU ARE HELPLESS! THIS IS THE ANSWER, DON'T YOU SEE THAT?!? IT'S SO OBVIOUS"

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We can weaken our student's confidence and independence if we criticize them in public, we always underline the failures, and we develop negative relations among students.

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3.2 Developing Student Resilience

In my practice is customary conduct group work. This work is carried out inside and outside the classroom . Around a big topic students choose a sub who want to work . He handed them a script which explains the basic steps for the construction work. Sometimes I indicate in what format I intend to work, others leave the group 's discretion how they want to present . At long classes will monitor and help groups to overcome the difficulties that arise.

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In my teaching team at primary School building autonomy and resilience is very often the core point of our teachers meeting and evaluation of our work. Once we took some notes on the sentences we should not use talking to children.

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I do think that teachers play an important role and have an extraordinary power on pupils' minds, therefore they really must be very careful to use it in the best, productive way.  It is easy to weaken our students' confidence.. here are some ways:
-criticize their work continuously, in public
-evaluate negatively their works, withour considering the efforts but just the product, the results
-never smile
-never encourage them in doing better
-never take into consideration pupils' needs or interests but always follow the CURRICUCULUM!!

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Italy
In addition to what we do communication, what we say, the tone of our voice, the expression of our face is very important. If I would draw attention to the error to a pupil, he will think that he has few skills, his resilience is threatened. If I'm not paying attention to his expression of difficulty and I do not devote attention to him, or I respond superficially to a question, he will feel unimportant and will be easy for him to close and abandon

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A teacher can weaken his/her student's confidence and independence if she/he:

never gives them the opportunity to work individually

doesn't give them feedback to their work

doesn't enjoy his/her presence in class

doesn't let them contribute and develop their collaboration skills

always underlines the negative points of their work

gives the solution of a problem right after their mistakes without telling them what they have done wrong and without giving them the opportunity to improve

develops negative relations among students

doesn't treat them well and hasn't expectations upon their capabilities

doesn't motivate them and doesn't consider their needs, their interests and what they already know

criticizes them in public

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I think that helping students to become confident and independent learners is a very long process that should begin when the learners are still very young, very curious and naturally approaching learning as a process of trial & error and not just as passive digestion of an amount of fragmented information from different ‘areas/fields of knowledge, often artificially detached. My students are sometimes very surprised when I help them to realise they already know a lot of stuff about some ‘new’ topic (which can also be a grammar structure, or a lexical field, as well as a ‘culture & civilization’ topic); they often do not seem able to ‘switch’ from one school subject ‘knowledge’ to another, and apply what they already know to different contexts. They just store information in separate little cells, keep it there for the time needed to pass the relative test – and then forget about it. They have no idea of knowledge as a whole, as information & skills crossing over specific and limited school subjects. And teachers have a great responsibility in creating this situation. In my opinion, a first essential step in creating the kind of classroom environment which could really help students become more confident and independent requires a new, more constructive collaboration of teachers working in the same class, a more thorough sharing of teaching approaches and practices, a keener attention at what students need to know and how to help them understand what they are learning. PBL is a good option, but it would be very little effective if I’m the only teacher implementing it. Probably useful anyway, but not so much as if most of the teachers of a class agreed on working together on it. I definitely like the idea of confident and independent students, but if I think of my students (10-13/14) I feel I’d need more than 3 hours a week and 3 years to help them. At the beginning, when I have them work in pairs or in group, even for very simple tasks, my ‘scaffolding’ needs to be very directive and structured or they would just stare at me helplessly …meaning, “What does this crazy woman want us to do? We CAN’T…” There are always exceptions, of course J But exceptions do not contribute to create a positive classroom environment. You have to work on “Yes, of course, you can” – at almost an individual level; and gradually introduce and reinforce the idea that pair/group work is not leisure time (that is, only the ‘best’ ones are on it, the others can take a rest. Which is exactly what they often learnt about it, and how they experienced it ). As I said, a very long process, a lot of time, and as classes are finally made of Individuals, it always depends largely on who are the individuals in a specific class: what they need, what they wish, what they know, can do…Who they are.

Unluckily, There’s no magic, largely usable solution. My simple approach is “think”: think before speaking, think while you are reading, think while you are…thinking. Think.

“We need a kind of thinking that reconnects that which is disjointed and compartmentalized, that respects diversity as it recognizes unity, and that tries to discern interdependencies. We need a radical thinking (which gets to the root of problems), a multidimensional thinking, and an organizational or systemic thinking.” Edgar Morin 0/����lP

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We as teachers could weaken our students' confidence and independence in many ways. Avoiding to give them the possibilitiy to work on a project independently, or asking always the same key ideas without freedom of  expression of their own.
Negative renforce is another way. Underlining the negative points of their work without any suggestion of improvement. A final great example to weaken our students self -esteem is that of giving them a negative and irrevocable worth, such as "You will never learn Maths" or " You can't paly music at all!"...

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I believe that "the best way" to weaken our students' resilience is to make them believe that, despite the work that we are giving them, they will not be able to  deliver. Sometimes, conscient or not of what we are doing, we descredit our students, we make them think that they are not worth the effort, they are not worth our trust.
Sometimes we are so concerned in getting their attention or respect (that may become fear), that we forget that, in most cases, they are children and, therefore, they do not possess our life experience and our ability to think further, to think in an abstract way, and we make so negative reviewa on their answers and points of view, that they feel discouraged to try to make it better. If we want to criticize, as it was mentioned on the video of this section, we must do it in private and, as you always remember to do in our reviews, do it in a constructive andpositive way.

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The kind of feedback we give to our students does affect their confidence. If it is always negative students believe that they are not good enough to do achieve anything. In addition, students' independence is not promoted when specific feedback is not given to the students. For example, many times we tend to say Very Good or You could have done better but we don't make clear to the students what they did well or what they should improve and how. Furthermore, sometimes teachers don't pay attention to all the students especially to the weaker ones while they should find out the strengths of all their students and applaud them with encouraging words. Moreover, if we rave our students too easily then raving loses its value and its effect on students' confidence. What is more, sometimes we want students to follow a specific way of thought and action, preventing them to show independence and try to do things in their own way.

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 Georgia - Zeta Tsigka, Greece                                                         Students’ confidence is compressed when
a teacher   * Never smiles and never seems to enjoy
his presence in class                                        * Shows interest only to give a lecture                                 * Uses activities that students do not
like or find meaningless                        * Does not give them opportunities to
contribute * Criticizes students in public –
praise is an unknown word in class                                * Gives strict instructions   * Focuses in failure and points out the
finger             * Develops hard competition and
negative relations among students.                              Well… it is easy for a teacher to weaken
his/ her student's confidence and independence

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 Georgia - Zeta Tsigka, Greece                                                         Students’ confidence is compressed when
a teacher   * Never smiles and never seems to enjoy
his presence in class                                        * Shows interest only to give a lecture                                 * Uses activities that students do not
like or find meaningless                        * Does not give them opportunities to
contribute * Criticizes students in public –
praise is an unknown word in class                                * Gives strict instructions   * Focuses in failure and points out the
finger             * Develops hard competition and
negative relations among students.                              Well… it is easy for a teacher to weaken
his/ her student's confidence and independence

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we need to promote students engagement. When students are not engaged, attention wanes. When attention wanes, learning decreases. There is overwhelming evidence to support the idea that deep processing, resulting from engaged students, leads to better learning If we want to create a climate of learning, curiosity, inquiry and engagement, we need to work with our students to ensure that this takes place.

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If the task is too difficult or too easy the teacher is weaken his/her students resilience. The Teacher must ask himself/herself what will be achieved with that activity, and what knowledge and skills are required.

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As shown in a previous video, it's important to find some time of reflection at the end of an activity/project.It's useful to get some feedback from the students and see what went well and what went bad even when they work in groups.Encouragement is a good key mainly when students are experimenting a type of project or activity.In my opinion self evaluation should also be an important ingredient in the lesson.We need to give students some time to reflect independently, to analyze his work and his performance.This is not easy and it takes time to make our students use such types of approaches.Unfortunately, time is flying in the classroom and we can't spend it like this because of our school curriculum and exams revisions

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A teacher can easily weaken his/her students' confidence by not caring for them, by assigning too difficult tasks, by underestimating their abilities or not believing in them, by providing the wrong example of behaviour to them. One should take into consideration the tips we are provided with in our input video:

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A teacher can weaken his/her students' confidence and independence in many different ways.

For example, when s/he does not:

Take into consideration the needs and abilities of students in order to plan a task

Encourage students in getting more involved in acquiring knowledge and be creative

Have great expectations upon student’s capabilities and talents

Enjoy being with his/her students while they learn

Treat with respect and courtesy

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If you don’t praise the work of your students if it isn’t just as you asked it to be, if you criticise a student in front of the class, if you take fun of your students' mistakes, if you often say them that a task is really easy “so you can do it well at once”, if you never open a positive discussion after a failure but you simply say that it’s students’ guilty, if you offer a fixed solution to problems and you don’t encourage free thinking, if you are not interested in building good relationship with your students. If…… YOU ARE A TEACHER WHO WEAKS HIS STUDENTS’ CONFIDENCE AND INDEPENDENCE,  my dear colleague.  But you can start from this complete failure and improve your way of teaching, be a resilient teacher, and your students will thank you sincerely.

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Unfortunately, it is very easy to achieve. One possibility would be telling students (directly or indirectly) that you did not expect too much when they make a mistake.

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A teacher can weaken his/her students' confidence and independence in many different ways. For instance, when s/he does not:
•        identify the first steps along the learning path
•        give students options
•        encourage constant progress
•        praise effort
•        create a positive work environment
•        offer students adequate motivation for cooperative learning
•        encourage students to reflect on their role and contribution to the process of the group work
•        involve learners in the assessment process
•        provide relevant feedback to students
•        increase student responsibility and autonomy.

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Last year my students told me that another teacher of the class was very unconfident with them and also very demotivating: he always said them that exercises he gave were really easy and that they could do it in two minutes!
First of all it was absolutely false (these exercises were sometimes also very difficult!), then the result was that also students very very clever worse in this subject!

I think that it’s really important to encourage our students when we give them to solve problems, also  let them work together helping each other.

I think, like Kurt Songül  from Turkey, that “when our students feel that they are approved, they succeed, then their confidence increases”.

We have also to treat them with respect and courtesy, praising them more than criticizing!

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I think teachers sometimes weaken their students' self confidence, especially when they expect too much from them or when they show their expectations from their students. If they do so, they don't let the students concentrate on their learning process, but push the students to focus on the teachers themselves

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Yes, it's easy to weaken student'confidence; teachers aren't always patient enough with disruptive behaviours and they act wrongly by criticizing them in front of the class, by not giving them individual attention and by not listening to them. It's not easy for a teacher in stress to adopt the correct attitude sometimes. But we must have in mind that if we can create a supportive classroom environment where the students can become confident and like what they do, everyone will feel much better.

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Gina, Naples, Italy              Unfortunatly there are many ways in which a teacher can weaken the confidence and independence of his or her students. This can be a result of not listening and communicating to the students in a way that allows for open discussions and positive criticisms, not knowing how to tell a student that they can improve and rather always telling them that what they create is either always good or always unsatisfactory, and lastly not allowing for a flexible schedule in the learning process in order to assess their own work and deterining how they feel they could improve.

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Gina, Naples, Italy              Unfortunatly there are many ways in which a teacher can weaken the confidence and independence of his or her students. This can be a result of not listening and communicating to the students in a way that allows for open discussions and positive criticisms, not knowing how to tell a student that they can improve and rather always telling them that what they create is either always good or always unsatisfactory, and lastly not allowing for a flexible schedule in the learning process in order to assess their own work and deterining how they feel they could improve.

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Teachers can hinder the academic growth of their students in their confidence and independence by focusing too much on getting high grades and following a strict rubric, not allowing students to work in groups and collaborate to make decisions both independently and as a team, explaining that there are only a few ways to accomplish a task or goal, and giving them criticism that is not constructive and doesn’t help them learn from their mistakes. These points focus on a rigid system of how the way things are done and don’t encourage the students to think for themselves and explore all avenues of learning. Therefore it is important to give students flexibility in the classroom to make their own decisions and provide positive and constructive criticism that will be beneficial to their overall growth as a student and as a functioning member of society.

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We weaken our students confidence in many ways .. When don t give them voice equally, their all contrıbution wasnt provided, so some of the students think that they dont know much or better, so this causes them demotivation. When we dont create a positive and energetic environment, they feel shy, and unwilling to contribute or engage in activities. However when we respect them, show respect their ideas, their contributions, and if we prase them for these contributions, they feel more confident and valuable. Then, they like engaging much more and involving activities as much as possible. When they feel that they are approved, they succeed, then their confidence increases. Also creating a positive teacher-student relationship is a good way of promoting confidence. We need to give opportunities to discuss their learnings, and make reflections, share tehir ideas with peers, we need to realize their strenghts and make them realize their strenghts, weaknesses as well.Also we need to guide them to see the 21 st century and its requirements, its rules..

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It's not difficult for us teachers to weaken our student's confidence and independence: they don't have much of it, as a matter of fact; a bad mark can easily do the trick. But, at the same time, a positive comment, a strong encouragement, an unexpected reward can shoot them to the stars and start a virtuous path to success. All in all I think that an esy way to help students build their own confidence is to show them that we care. We care about what they do, both if it is a good job or not, we care about what they do or don't. They need to feel they have our attention and support, whatever the result

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"Be more confident" And most likely,this is what you think when you hear it:if only it were that simple. You are valuable,worthwhile,capable. It turns thoughts into action,

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To weaken the students? Simply do not respect them. In my experience students build their confidence and independence easier when they feel that they are your partners

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Teachers can weaken students' confidence in many ways. By criticism, focusing on mistakes, no respecting their ideas and no encouraging them. Too difficult tasks without proper scaffolding can lead to the failure can weaken student’s confidence as well.

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Sincerely, I think our students are most matures and for this I will demand what is the journey to obtain what they want and how incoming this way.

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Most has already been said:
students' attention is weakened when there is no interesting subject to tackle. So the best thing to do is choosing a good driving question and always involve all.

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I agree with most of what the colleagues wrote down. As teachers we can easily weaken the confidence and the resilience of a student with excessively negative criticism or not paying interest to her views or attention to her requests. On the contrary, putting every student in the proper condition to learn at the best of her possibilities, paying attention to what she has to say or she's able to do, foster her in the difficult moments, can help her to grow.

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I believe that the worst thing to do to our teaching is falling in that trap that is called "self-fullfilling prophesy". Unfortunately, most teachers still use stereotypes and put labels to students. Or we could exercise it on the reverse: start believing that everybody is capable of doing great things and make others believe it , too. So, we need to create a positive learning environment. There is a greek word which describes some of its characteristics: empathy. Empathy is the ability to recognize and show respect for other people's feelings. We need to actively listen to our students' needs and feelings and be there for them. Give positive feedback - never critisize. Show them that they are allowed to make mistakes and teach them how to learn through them. Having
established this environment, we can begin our journey to mastering the 21st century skills and, of course, PBL!

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To weaken students' resilience, a teacher may: rebuke them for any mistake, tell them that they can't complete the task, tell them she does not trust them, guide them in every step of the task, punish them for every mistake.

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How to weaken my students'self-confidence and resilience?
To weaken their resilience and confidence,

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We can weaken students' confidence every time we:
- don't give them enough time to complete a task and move forward asking someone who has already done it to correct it;
- ask a good student to read a text and to answer a question and don't give a chance to someone else;
- give too much importance to mistakes instead of showing admiration for achievements;
- criticize in public.

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We can weaken student´s confidence by:
- telling them that a task is too difficult or impossible to them;
- making fun of their work or criticising them in front of others;
- showing them that we are afraid of their failure.

I guess that what we would need to do would be:
- telling them that everything is possible, with enough time, practice and effort;
- when we believe that students will not be able to do what they planned, discussing alternatives with them and showing them how their work is still important and useful;
- supporting them in front of others and tell them what they need to change in private.
- help them dealing with the failures, how to learn from these and overcome these.

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“identify how we as teachers can weaken our student's confidence and independence”

I teach Music. When we talk about learning Music, our western society is all about reverse brainstorm: “I’m not gifted”, “I’m completely deaf”, “I can’t read a note”, and so on. Unfortunately many specialists music teachers support/promote these prejudices. Yes, these are all myth, as research evidence clearly have demonstrated that there are not unmusical or “amusical” human beings. If we start a class by selecting the best, separating the good from the bad, making pupils sing or play alone in front their peers, these is the best we can do to weaken our student's confidence and independence.

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To weaken our students confidence and independence we should:
- not use the previous knowledge to built the new one (not scaffolding the knowledge procedure)
- oblige them to work always with a team, having equal responsibility for the final result
- be unfair to our assessments
- have lack of enthusiasm and no tight relations within classroom.

Hope I've helped!

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How to weaken our students confidence and independence:

don't be humble;

don't assume you were wrong;

not to encourage talented students;

don't praise the work of students

The best ways to retain good teachers:

have a culture of mutual respect

create a safe, positive work environment

be supportive

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Mistakes are possible!! We can learn from our mistakes, we must let us to make mistakes! Our school, specially in Italy, doesn't let to make mistakes and when it happens... ooooohhhh!!! It's terrible ! how it is possible! they are the wrost students and they are in my classroom!!!! (Unfortunatley, they are true words, said by some colleagues....

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How to weaken our students' confidence and indipendence...Well, I think our school ( the Italian school) is doing a really great job at the moment, especially as regards indipendence. Most of our 'teaching' is still very transmissive, teacher-centered, focused on an amount of notions the students are expected to silently listen to, passively digest, parrotly repeat - and which they incredibly quickly forget. Critical thinking is generally pure utopia; questions are never challenging: they simply require to repeat a definite 'piece of standard knowledge'. And many students are so used to this kind of school learning (they are even good at it...) that they look very worried if you propose them something even slightly different. As regards self- confidence, on the contrary, many of them show huge bunches of it - increasingly supported by a family education centred on the idea that their own kids cannot be anything less than little geniuses. It's not that easy to help these kids become aware they are not geniuses, but nonetheless they possess real individual knowledge and skills which they can actively use to build new meaningful knowledge and improved skills.

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Oh boy, is so easy do the wrong thing. Is only necessary be not humble, full of my self, pretending to be the most smart person in the classroom. That`s the way to the disgrace. And we have to remember that we are, most of the time, an example to our students. For the good, or for the bad.