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It is necessary to promote self-esteem in students from the outset, to promote self-confidence. This type of project encourages those who have a harder time studying but they are good at building models

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Resilience is ability to withstand adversity and bounce back from difficult life events. Being resilient does not mean that people don't experience stress, emotional upheaval, and suffering.

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3.2 Developing Student Resilience

Resilience is a capacity that guides us to the future, to hope and to strength. But, above all, it guides us to action. Resilience can be learned, not a personality trait that appears in some people and not in others.

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In my experience as a teacher I have seen a lot of negative behaviours that can weaken student confidence. Most of all lots of colleagues enphasize on criticism, for example telling them that they will never succeed in life... I have to learn a lot, but I think that I always promote a positive learning environment and try to focus on student abilities. My attitude is always positive.

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Teachers can make students increase their resilience or can weaken the students' confidence. Many times I think that teachers transmit a lot of different feelings, ideas, attitudes by means of our acting and thinking. It does not matter if we say something different: students are so gifted to know what we really think and expect about them. So that it is very important that teachers expect our students are able to do make an effort and to achieve the proposed goals; on the contraire, they are going to know our opinion in advance and possible they will not be successful .

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to be patient and to love study!

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I guess criticizing all the time is a good way to lower self esteem but also to disintegrate the relationship with your students.
Also, expecting your students to turn out to be geniuses or brilliant students without your encouragement is sheer madness.

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Criticizing a lot publicly, not trying to find that little thing every member of a group has done right, not pointing out that what we expect from their final product is truly of very high quality, showing them we do not really feel like really working with them.

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All the students are young, at least younger than the adults, and their vulnerability comes from a lot of issues: their confidence and optimism can be shattered by remarks, or even by misused silence; their energy and enthusiasm can be wasted or misguided; their potential and development can be stopped or misdirected...Gosh, there are so many more!

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There are many ways for teachers to weaken their students' confidence, most of the times unknowingly. All the things we do in front of our students can either reinforce good or bad attitudes towards learning or treating the othes. It's necessary to encourage in a positive way to foster the self- esteem. However, we're human and we there's a chance for us to commit mistakes, specially in the classrooms where we spend so many hours a day. The important thing is to realize these mistakes and to encourage positive responses and awards instead of the negative. Furthermore, it's not only about finding out our mistakes, but learning from them. We have to change our mindset and our students' in order to interpret mistakes as a learning possibility.

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I guess you can weaken your students’ confidence with very subtle but meaningful things. Very often our body-language gives us away: the way we look at them (impatient because it’s taking them too long to answer a question); the way we stand in front of them very “old-school-teacher”, imposing and sometimes threatening; when we sigh (because the student is getting it all wrong), etc.

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Resilience means being able to live and get by learning from mistakes. School activities should promote this sense of self-fulfilment any time.

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This reverse brainstorming was one of the first activities we did at my school after a Positive Discipline Training. Working with 4 and 5 year olds, we had to think of turning some common rules around so that they become positive rules. Instead of: "Don't run in the corridoor, we say "Always walk slowly and carefully". Instead of: " Don't forget to say Hello and Goodbye" we say: "Always remember to say Hello and Goodbye". Instead of : "Don't speak unless you have placed your arm in the air", we say: "Please put your arm in the air and wait for your turn to speak."
I do my best to create a warm and welcoming classroom by setting the example and greeting my children with enthusiasm. I let them share their previous experiences while coming on their way to school. I use the above positive rules and try to speak in a positive way, making sure they know that all types of bullying are un acceptable. I think that one of the best ways to build confidence and self esteem is to focus on strenghts and congratulate children on all their accomplishments. They feel that they only learn if they try and that it is normal to make mistakes.I would like to share a quote that I love:

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How many times do we hear, or even say, in front of the whole class, 'I don't know how else to say this' or 'Am I speaking Chinese?' or 'I don't know what else to do to get you to learn... should I make a handstand?' or even 'I give up; it's no use'? This kind of comments can be very discouraging to children, even if they were not the target of such comments. Unfortunately there are far more students that do not achieve their full potential due to low self-esteem than to learning disabilities.

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Demonstrate that they are not capable, will never understand a reasoning, do not have the proper ability to work, do not have goals do not know how to set priorities.

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One of the ways teachers, especially when teaching kids, do to weaken their confidence is by doing things for them that they are able to do by themselves.

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The idea of failing in a learning process is not rare at all. It's important to help students to elaborate the error in order to overcome it and to get selfconfidence.

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A non supportive school enviroment can give negative feedback to a student.

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Sometimes is difficult not speak about failure and find a way when a student doesn't understand something. So the negative criticism can weak our students.

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Negative criticism as well as a focus on weaker performances can weaken our students confidence and independence.

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I weaken my students with these:
I don't pay enough attention their feelings,
I emphasize their wrong, I don't give enough time,
I laugh them and ıpraise myself...

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Orbe, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

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Orbe, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

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I weaken my students if I...
-don't give them time to think and find out the solutions.
-don't take into account their achievements.
-don't listen to them.
-don't promote sharing ideas.
-don'tgive them the opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
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Teachers may weaken their students' confidence and independence by giving them tasks with the information already searched, everything ready and prepared, not allowing them to solve the problems by themselves only with the teacher's guidance, constantly reminding them their mistakes and solving any difficulty for them.
A classroom environment that supports students to become confident and independent learners should include the opposite of the above mentioned points. They must be autonomous learners and must have an encouraging teacher who motivates them for success.

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We can weaken our students' confidence by telling their mistakes in public. We focus on bad behaviours too much and weaken their confidence easily.

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Weaken: as is not being patient with them and telling how wrong they were with an answer.

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I can weaken my students confidence by focusing on their mistakes, don't give them time to think, let only the fastest give answers, do not accept ideas and strategies that differ from mine.

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We can weaken our student's confidence by criticising permanently, not giving feedback, not giving atention to their problems, we can also weaken their independence by always giving them answers and never questions.

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For me, the feedback given to the students' work is very important. The absence of feedback, repeated feedback and always equal for the same students, can weaken their self-confidence.

Another problem we have is the tendency to always assign the same type of tasks to the same students, clearly conveying the idea that student is only able to perform that task and can not do other tasks at a higher level.

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we can weaken our students’ believe in themselves by criticising them in public and focusing on their mistakes. We can make them feel worthless by showing their differences are their disadvantages.

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We as teachers can weaken our student's confidence and independence if we do not listen to them, if we don't give them feedback and if we do not reward their success.

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It is useful to give the kids the tools to learn to be independent and to build on their own knowledge, to give the tools to learn to learn

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Focus on mistakes , weaken confidence pointing out mistakes in front of the whole classroom,

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It is important to give a confidence to students to work together and be support by a teacher when they need help.
It is also important to listen their opinion and let students to express their opinion.

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Weaken? It's enough to be not sincere with students. They will feel it very quickly and all your attempts to encourage them will be a big fail.  Be open with them and they will get trust in you. Then you will have much more influence in their learning process.

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We can weaken the independence of our students when we do not trust them when we do not argue with them when we make a project without specifying the responsibilities and tasks of each of the team.

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In order to weaken our students, the first point we should take into account it is to know all our students.
Besides, we can organise activies in which all studetns can participate and even they can help each others. As teacher, we must raise our students confidence by letting them know when they are doing something well.
Therefore, we should focus more on their positive characteristic than the negative ones.

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I think the easiest and best way to weaken students' confidence and resilience would be to set out difficult questions where they haven´t nor enough time to answer them neither its teacher´s support.

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To weaken the confidence of students you should:Know your students,encourage them,get them involved,make resonable demands,avoid monotony,offer rewards,give students responsability,make goals attainable,be enthusiastic,create a pleasant enviroment,make students active participants of learning.

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Some ideas:
Posing closed problems
Providing the solution too fast
Not giving time for reflection and debate
Not letting pose other ways to reach the same solution
Ridicule errors in front of their peers

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The best way for weakinig students is planning activities they will not be able to cope with without help and making them feel they can't do it because they do not study enough.

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Teacher can weaken the students confidence and independence in many maners, for examples:

Teacher does not show respect for their students.
Teacher does not listen their students.
Teacher does not check the task and make a clear feedback of the task.

It is important to give a confidence to students to work together and be support by a teacher when they need help.

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Weaken your students by being disrespectful and insisting them in what they are wrong, what they cannot do.

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For me, the easiest way to weaken students' confidence is by not believing they are capable. Children are smart and they are able to read their teachers’ thoughts and feelings towards them.

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I think the easiest and best way to weaken students' confidence and resilience would be to make it imperative that they only speak about the subject matter and in a logical way. You make them to keep their thoughts to themselves if they are not a hundred percent sure about what they are going to claim. You turn everything to a monologue of teacher teaching all the time and students do not speak unless they are asked a question. What they say when they are answering the question would be used as part of their oral mark. They can not digress or discourse about what they think on any subject matter. We tell them that it's not up to them, the information is proven and that's why it's in our curriculum and books and there is nothing further to discuss. All they have to do is learn the information and then use it when we test them to show they remember it.
In an ideal classroom, on the other hand, students should be able to discuss anything, work in groups to help each other and learn through discovery and application. The teacher should assist them in directing them in the right direction in their search and guiding students to become better manage their time to enjoy what they are doing more and to produce more. I strongly believe that students could always gain knowledge that their teachers are not even aware of. That should make us proud and strengthen our believe in our students.

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Humiliation weakens students' confidence and independence. Making fun of students who cannot achieve their goals as fast as the rest.  I think teachers should be aware of the power we have upon students and how our remarks can influence them in a negative way. We have to make our students feel that we are here to help them.

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How to weak our student's confidence:
-Showing them only your point of view.
-Talking to them unrespectfully.
-Remarking their failures.
-Doing activities they don't identify with.
-Not giving enough time to solve problems.
-Creating a bad environment.
-Highlighting mistakes instead of achievements.

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To weaken our students' confidence we can:
- Talk about their weaknesses and not about their strengths
- Highlight the negative behaviours, not the positive ones
- Be pessimist with them and their results
- Show your dissapointment with them in class
- Disagree with everything they say
- Show a negative attitude towards them

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- Emphasize errors constantly and in public.
- Don't relate content to real life.

- Encourage competition without rules.
- Not to value student participation.

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To weaken the confidence and independence of students, the teacher must:
* shout at them all the time
* reinforce the mistakes
laugh at your failures
* only send messages to parents of bad behavior
* give lectures lessons and do not allow interruptions
* accept only a "standardized" answers
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It's so easy to demotivate students if you don't respect them. Before being your pupils they're people, girls and boys with their own personality, strengths and weaknesses. They'll lose any motivation soon if you don't involve them in the discussion, even in a traditional front lesson. If you don't expect the best from your students they'll never learn how to strive to improve.

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The best way to produce failure
-treat the students as failures
- be arrogant, cold and ignore their
problems
- insult them regularly
- brush off what the show you, to
show them that you have no
interest in their talents
- treat them like small children
- use sarcasm and irony
- vocabulary above their level

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Creating a negative classroom environment through focusing on what they do wrong, presenting activities that have nothing to do  with the subject, using a lot of theory, don't having a precise aim.

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- expect failure
- don't give opportunity
- ignoring them
- negative review

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I strongly believe that encouraging children to find solutions for their problems is very important. Mistakes are also important because you can learn from it. In my activities I concentrate to listen to them, to motivate them to never give up. The more you try, the better you will be!

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What can weaken student's confidence and independence?
1. Thinking that we, adults know better.
2. Continuously telling students what and how they should do/behave/think/work/solve.
3. Not giving enough time to work on problem.
4. Giving one and only solution or being glued to our solutions.
5. Doing stuff for them or instead of them.
6. Telling them they should give up.
7. Comparing their work to other who are perfect but with negative feedback.
8. Giving tasks to hard for them (because they don't have enough knowledge or skills).
9. Comparing them to ourselves.
10. Forgetting they are independent and unique human beings.
So far I can think about those. Maybe tomorrow I can find more.

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Teachers and, in general, adults can weaken student's confidence and independence by telling them what they should do in every situations. Only a respectful attitude towards them and the capacity to recognize what they are and what they can be in the future can create a classroom environment that supports students to become confident and independent learners.

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In my activities with my students, each is important and I have learned to be positive, to encourage good activities and creativity. As I have already said, the mistake is a learning opportunity, and positive communication is essential. They set high standards for all students and work with each, depending on their level to reach the maximum potential. I teach them that perseverance and critical thinking are essential in learning.

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As teachers there are many ways to weaken the confidence of our students. In the pre-school stage, which is where I am, the students that you do not value or support emotionally, to those who do not congratulate themselves on what they do (being the correct result or not) and those who feel that they are not part of the group because the The teacher doubts his abilities ... They all feel that they are useless and by default his self-confidence decreases and that does not help them in their development or learning.

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We can weaken the confidence of our students if we are always telling them they are making mistakes and doing things wrong

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We can weaken our students’ confidence if we give them negative feedback. As Laura Reynolds says “Compliment, Correct, Compliment”. Learning about emotional education has changed my way to address student. “Think, feel, act” is a maxima that really works. As an English teacher I had heard my students telling me “No valgo para los idiomas” (=I won’t be able to learn a foreign language) so many times that I knew something I was doing wrong. I wasn’t proud of knowing English was thought to be one of the most difficult subjects in our school curriculum.
I knew I couldn’t teach them all the English words, structures... but I had to make them be independent English learners. Strengthening their independence as English learners made them be more positive to learn a foreign language. When seeing them in class asking for the meaning of a word in a videogame  or a song, commenting on an add they’ve watched on TV... make me feel very proud of them.

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We can weaken our student´s confidence and independence if we don´t leave them to express their own ideas and motivations, If we don´t let them to do the things by themselves, if we always criticize and judge them, if we don´t encourage them …

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We as teachers can weaken our student's confidence and independence if we always criticize them, judge them, if we don't listen their ideas and don't even allow them to share their own ideas, if we don't encourage them, if we don't appreciate their own work, if we don't see them as individuals...

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If we want to weaken our student's confidence we criticizing them all the time, not listen to their ideas, don't morivate them, we are focusing in their failure, laugh to their answers, call them with , we don't try to motivate them, we give them easier or to much difficult tasks, we don't praise them, using the same teaching methods all the time.

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If we want to weaken our student´s confidence and independence:
-Enhance only the "good students"
-Work with unmotivating activities
-Criticize them in public
- Don´t let them speak; only listen.
-Focus on bad things
-Don´t motivate , don´t trust on them
-Don´t foster creativity

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How to weaken students' confidence and independence?
- judge them
- criticize them
- quarrel them
- dominate them
- not listen to them
- laugh at their answers
- not let them speak
- not trust them
- not involve them in various activities
Seems awful? Well...it's happening in some cases!

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Ohhhh, many ways, actually it's much easier than strengthening confidence and independence.
Criticizing in public; calling names; constantly giving the tasks that are too difficult; allowing only one way of solving the problem or doing the task; comparing students; be sure that there are only 2 opinions in the world - the teacher's and the wrong one! Never take into consideration students' opinion and preferences.

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We can weaken the confidence of our students when we ourselves, as teachers, do not believe they are capable. Even if this is not told, they realize when the teachers have given up on them. It is at this very moment that they also give up on themselves. The confidence of our students is often built on the trust that is imparted to them by all those around them. If they are confident in themselves, they certainly have been able to be independent. It is our role to never give up on our students.

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We can do a lot to enhance our students' motivation and confidence, but there are tons of things we can do to weaken such process. The ten "black" rules could be:
1. Use an aggressive approach in the class: use the perspective "I talk-you listen"!
2. Prevent students from expressing opinions and give their contribution to the lesson;
3. Use textbooks and written materials as unique source for teaching and therefore learning: no iconic triggers, no videos, no IW , no internet, no audio inputs. Use only one type of lesson: oral transmission of knowledge;
4. Focus on performances: a negative grade is the result of negative behavior only. Grades =  person. If you have bad grades you are a bad person.
5. highlight students' mistakes openly and publicly as a form of punishment;
6. Don't submit different materials and tests according to level and cognitive range ; provide only one type of paper; don't allow students to complete their work according to their learning rhythm;
7. Present old, not up to date materials, use standardized readings and exercises only;
8. don't prepare your lessons in advance: they're only children after all and they won't notice!
9. Don't call your students by their first name; just use family names or numbers;
10. Never present funny activities : learning is a serious thing!

Follow these 10 rules and you'll get unmotivated, apathic, lazy and non cooperative students!!

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Do your best and take your time!!!.... Each of us is completely different from someone else..so I usually give my students different time to complete the activity: if someone has finished the homework and another student hasn't; no problem, I say: take your time. I usually give additional materials to the ones who finish in advance, for example books to read or a book with solution, so that they can go on by themselves and they do not need to tell the other students they have finished their activity . These students are usually so good that they can do whatever you propose by themselves,. In any case if they need help I am always there. I try to let my students think they are special and they really are. I never scream but make jokes: I always say the opposite of my real thought when they do something wrong! I always tell them they are so good, they are improving and that I am proud of them. I allow the students who have bad marks to do an additional test so they can feel I really want to give them the possibility of doing well. I always specify when there is a test and i prepare them in class before the test working in groups. It's important to be active

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In my opinion, what unmotivated the students is to assign tasks that do not arouse interest; tasks too directed by teachers; tasks too difficult for the age group of the students; hope that the students, alone, will be able to develop the project; demonstrate low expectations; not motivate students. I sincerely believe in this kind of methodologies and it seems to me that it will be the right path for these new generations.

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We teachers can endlessly demotivate students just letting them give up and saying something that: you didn't work enough.
I teach math to students that have really difficulties to learn this subject and I'm sure that they need you to be the mirror in which to look at themself.
We usually choose a song and I tell them that song is OUR song. This course we chose OK (James Blunt).

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I practice cooperative learning since I was a trainee.
Then, as a teacher and trainer, my awareness has grown that collaboration is the key to harmonious growth: the first example to be given to students is in our attitude (more smiles) and in the collaboration within teachers-teams...

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We can demotivate students with negative reinforcement, only focusing on what they do wrong, instead of pointing out the good things of their projects. Also we can demotivate our students if we only get them to copy from the blackboard without allowing any type of participation.
Besides, if we use out of date examples or examples that cannot be applied to their lives.

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I believe we can demotivate, weaken our students and make them dependent when:
- We use only lectures.
- We present activities that are not related to real life, just to decorate content and apply only quantitative and standardized evaluations.
- We only criticize bad behaviors and do not value or praise what is good.
- We drive the whole class without looking for the interests of the students.
Here in Brazil we are going through a very delicate moment, where religious groups want to transplant their ideologies into schools, which ends up wounding and creating conflicts.

I believe that a teacher and the school community, above all, must be aware that we live in a world where we must value and respect diversity, and we must teach it! Teachers who teach and propagate intolerance, racism, and prejudice weaken and restrain their students, as well as spreading disastrous behaviors in society.

Teachers should be ready to have their concepts questioned, those who only hear or accept opinions of their own weaken themselves and the students.

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In a school where I worked I witnessed the following situation:
There was a whole class of four years old in a row, in the hall way to go to the canteen with the kindergarten teacher. A colleague (the mother of one of the children in the line) passes by. The kindergarten teacher says to one of the children in the line, using a louder voice so everyone can hear her: "Look, here's your mother and now I'll tell her what you did to your friend and, of course, she did not will like nothing to know. "
All this is deeply wrong. The problem must be solved between the kindergarten teacher and the children involved, privately, without further audience. It should never be treated or exposed in public. Giving attention to these kind of situations is the same as telling the child that only what he does wrong is important. It must be just the opposite.

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If I often criticize my students' work in public, If I don't give them the right target to obtain, If I am always angry to them rather than kind and enthusiastic for their goals I can weaken my students' confidence and independence. So starting acting exactly the contrary of what I usually do, could be a very good opportunity to help grow the learners' confidence in themselves as students and human beings

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How we as teachers can weaken our student's confidence and independence? my method is to use less theory and more practical exemples from the reality. Growing is to become part of the world!
In fact, it is very important to create a classroom environment that supports students to become confident and independent learners.

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To weaken students’ co confidence and independence, a teacher can have students work without any precise aim or target and without any encouragement or motivating stimuli. If they don’t understand they can also copy from their desk mate or group mate.

On the other hand, to help you create a classroom environment that supports students to become confident and independent learners a teacher must always work on students’ strengths and plan activities that are motivating and appreciated by students. They should also participate in planning activities. In addition, a teacher should give each student the possibility to be successful and reach high performances according to his/her abilities and competences. A teacher should also encourage students’ creativeness throughout the learning process. Finally, a teacher can help students focus on caring, sharing, collaboration and respect for one another.

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How can we weaken student’s confidence and independence?:

Letting them do work without creating targets for the whole learning process as well as for the desired product.

Not encouraging them at all times, letting them know that we believe in them.

If we are not patient when they missbehave.

If we don't respect them and encourage them to respect their mates, following the golden rule "Try to Treat Others as You Would Want Them to Treat You"

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It is necessary to promote self-esteem in students from the outset, to promote self-confidence. This type of project encourages those who have a harder time studying but they are good at building models

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I think teachers weaken students' confidence and independence by disapproving every suggestion, every answer they give, by making negative commentaries about them in front of the whole class. Humiliation  is maybe the strongest enemy of confidence. Moreover, by telling them what to do step by step and not allowing personal input might also be a drawback from independence. They will always wait to be told what to do.

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Resilience is an important attitude towards life. Some tips to build it up in our classes can be:
- make our students feel they are a part of the whole. Each has responsibility and a role to play, always important
- show our students that we care about their well-being and learning, ask them about their interests, life...
- any problem should be dealt in private. Criticism in public in a teenagers' class can be seen by the student as a humiliation.
- teach quicker students to help slower ones. Quick students can be of great help
- try to cover topics which may be linked to the real world they live in, in this way, topics will be more attractive to them

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I really enjoyed the video , developed by Kornélia Lohyňová . Tips on how to weaken student’ confidence  are very interesting and effective. If we  want to help students become confident and indipendent learners , we  have to make the classrooms  a place where they feel welcome and where only inspiring things happen.The activities must be student-driven and not teacher-driven.  We as teachers have  a great influence on our students so we should be always positive and try to make them feel comfortable. We have to give  the opportunity to contribute to everyone and  teach them how to face failure . In addition we mustn’t do negative comments or judgements in front of their classmates or parents. I think that if we  use a variety of methods and techniques we will be able to strengthen our  our students’confidence and indipendence.

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Using in the activities the PBL method can help the selfesteem of the students. In general it is important to focus on the failure as opportunity, to consider it a part of the learning and the demostration that in any case make something can't always have an happy ending.

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I think that some strategies are ecessary to be taken into consideration by teachers if they really want to develop resilience  in their students.
1) Teachers should let students choose because this creates a sense of ownership and also makes them responsible and autonomous learners Moreover,. Providing opportunities to choose topics of interest stimulates students’ natural curiosity and eagerness to learn.
2.They should be given a precise role  role as agent .
3.Rewarding  success with praise is also a way to help students get resilience
4) Get students accept failure and understand that failure is necessary to  stenghthen their personality; Let them  accept that mistakes have to be turned into  learning opportunities ;
5) Teach students to  controll the negative emotions that can interfere with learning.

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There are many ways that we, as teachers, can weaken our students' confidence and independence.
One thing is our negative comments or judgements, especially when they are made in public, in front of their classmates or parents.
Our face or movements might also weaken our students' confidence and independence: They might see in our face or movements, or if we do not pay attention to them when they are speaking, a form of disapproval.
Another way we weaken our students' confidence and independence by not giving them the chance to express their thoughts or work in pairs and groups. If we insist in teacher-drived lessons, just teacher speaking and students listening and answering our questions, they lose confidence and interest in our lesson.
We also weaken their confidence and independence when we do not use a variety of methods and techniques. They get easily bored by the daily repeated routine.
I think these are just some of the mistakes we might make.

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Dear all. At this point I would like to share with you some practices I use to carry on in my school life...
First, in the early morning I welcome the students at the main entrance and I shake hands with them; later on I use to walk throughout the school, enter the classroom and ask them how the feel and what they need; during the recess time I joint them at th cantina and we talk about sport, news, etc. At the end of the day I approach to main entrance to say them goodbye. Since I do that, teachers join me and students are confidenced to talk to me on any aspect of their lives. It works.

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I think we should always be respectful with our pupils and provide them with positive feedback . We should encourage them and help them to develop their capabilities. We all know that our behaviour and expectations from others are very important to our pupils'  achievements.

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I think the subject is very complex to be developed here. In the Italian school, students who are growing up with age are increasingly apathetic and disinterested in learning something, distracted as they are from the intensive use of smartphones and social networks. I usually always try to mislead them and not give them habits, and I often try to "provoke them" to make them react, let them get out of their torpor, verifying their communication and relationship skills. Obviously such provocations are not understood by everyone in the same way, and this could lead to some demotivation (but more often a motivation, or rather a novelty) to a modified commitment. I create the conditions in which they must demonstrate to build their knowledge, but especially at the beginning, this approach is devastating, especially for those who have always been accustomed to being led by hand. In the long run, the result repays me, but in the short term I have to be careful about the complexity of the relationship that is being established with the parents as well.

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In the beginning I had big expectations and I didn't realize they were too big. First mistake. Later on I realized that I have too make detailed assignments according to my students' abilities. These were my two mistakes which undermined my students' confidence

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Carla Martins's ten commandments on how to weaken student's confidence, made me smile! About this issue, I think she says it all in a funny way!
To help students become confident and independent learners the classroom must be a place where they feel welcome and where exhiting things happen. There must be a cooperative and supportive environment, the activities must be student-driven, engaging and meaningful, every student must have the opportunity to contibute,  the feedbacks must point out the right direction and encourage students to move on, students must perceive mistakes as a part of the learning process, there must be tolerance and enough room for self-expression.

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Salamanca, Spain.
Sometimes we adults are not able to control our reactions. I have read about this topic, reflecting on the way you should speak to children as I really consider it core to my profession and to my life (I have a 6 year old daughter and a 3 year old son). When we lose control, our first reaction is always the wrong one, and we say things that may be bad for kids' confidence. We should keep that reaction to ourselves and act in a reflective way, trying to show in our response the person we would like to be

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As I do not teach in the first years of schooling, most of the unmotivated students that I have encountered already reflect the accumulation of a few years of insecurity or very discernible difficulties in the subject that I teach – mathematics. Thus, while subscribing to some of the ideas that have already been advanced by other colleagues in this section - criticizing the student in front of the class, not allowing the student to put his doubts and questions, not working the “mistake” with the student, not allowing the student to have a different pace of working from that one of their peers - the greatest difficulty found in the motivation of the students is that, in my discipline, from the 7th year of schooling, when the student already has many knowledge gaps, to make the student perseverant and committed. . That is, to facilitate to the student the "scaffolds", that allow him to be kept for a very prolonged time in "advances and retreats". That is, to facilitate to the student the "scaffolds" that allow him to be kept for a very prolonged time in "advances and retreats".

To counter this problem I usually start by looking to keep up with them a good relationship and remind them every day that they are the owners of their lives. When they come to make the decision "to overcome the difficulties in the discipline" the teacher will be always there to support them. Another important aspect is that, to these students, I try to propose less demanding initial tasks so that, with small successes, they gain motivation. Another important aspect is that, to these students, I try to propose less demanding initial tasks so that, with small successes, they gain motivation.
Gradually the exigency has to increase. At this crucial time, some students are becoming unmotivated again. I firmly think that only the work dynamics that involve the student more in learning can solve this problem.

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We teachers can weaken our student's confidence and independence if we only criticize their work, in negative way, and don't make positive critics, such as: "You did this work not very well but I think you can do better, if you change this point, or that point ..." We must encourage students to do better and better and never say: "You don't do anything all right!". Instead, we must say: "I know you can, so try it again!"

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We weaken our students' confidence when we criticise them in public and use them as an example of what should not be done. Any kind of humiliation, direct or indirect, does not help thm in building their confidence.
Very difficult but pointless activities produce a similar effect, leaving them with a sense that they cannot achieve anything positive.