Student Resilience - Reverse Brainstorming by Teacher Academy

Nothing weakens students' confidence and independence as teacher's apathy in everything they do, e.g.when a student makes a project and teacher gives nothing except the word " GOOD"; when a teacher gives instructions how to do a task and then does the work themselves; when a teacher provides nothing more but a blackboard to the classroom.

redaklimanskiene — 2016-06-20 09:27:33 UTC

2016-06-20 09:29:38 UTC

Correcting every mistake a student makes ion front of the whole class weakens students' confidence. Be selective where possible with public error correction.

Anna Marisa, Italy

2016-06-20 09:36:15 UTC

Key words are: supporting helping, sharing, cooperating, collaborative problem solving , treatying others with respect and courtesy. Without these we can't wake student's confidence and indipendence.

Vali Pavel,Romania

2016-06-20 09:51:43 UTC

It's a huge task to be a teacher as the students want to see every day. But it's worthing. I found some tips from colleagues with high reputation. I attached below.

Neus, Mallorca

nmajoral — 2016-06-20 09:52:20 UTC

Students feel tiny confident if we constantly tell them how bad they are doing things. Sometimes we forget to tell them "well done" but we do not forget to tell them "that is not ok".

Ester, ITALY. Socially, resilient young people are more caring, responsive to others and have better communication skills. They have a sense of empathy with other people and may have a good sense of humour. As a result, they tend to establish more positive relationships, including friendships with their peers. They may also be more willing to seek help from others when they do experience personal difficulties. It’s important to teach resilience-building strategies and providing opportunities for meaningful self-assessment. Schools can also teach or encourage specific skills (such as communication and problem solving), Teachers listen to and respect others' opinions, and encourage young people and colleagues to do the same in the classroom. Teachers incorporate group work and cooperative activities into their students' tasks and encourage participation.

esterdegennaro — 2016-06-20 09:57:54 UTC

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Drazena, Croatia

drazena_potocki — 2016-06-20 10:06:15 UTC

I think constantly correcting and directing students weakens its independence.

Marcela, Italy

2016-06-20 10:09:04 UTC

If you do not prove empathy and try to correct all the time your students, you'll weaken your students' confidence and independence.

Cornelia Melcu

2016-06-20 10:27:30 UTC

Focusing on students needs and interests
Helping students to understand their mistakes and failures
Being more a ”partner” than a ”master” in the classroom

Nuno Gaspar, Portugal

2016-06-20 10:33:03 UTC

There are several situations that can undermine confidence and autonomy of students. One is if we opt for a critical, where constantly denigrate the work and the posture of a student without adequately explain him his error. Criticizing is not just saying what was wrong but how wrong and how to correct form.
Often, in the discipline of Visual Education and before students with many difficulties, a sentence may be sufficient to say that the project is going well.
See my Learning Diary

Olgica, Serbia

olgicaspasojevic — 2016-06-20 10:36:02 UTC

Teacher`s incosequence can also weaken students confidence. Also, when teacher`s requiremants aren`t in accordande with students capacities.

AnaŽČ

anaznidarec — 2016-06-20 10:36:08 UTC

I would go with respect, active listening to students, open questions that supports them and be aware/conscious.

Thomas Michels, Germany

thomasmichels — 2016-06-20 10:38:37 UTC

There are severall ways to disencourage students: Criticise them all the time, supress them, don´t give answers to their questions, ignore them and tell them how stupid they are and how worthless their work is. So we should think about doing the oposite of this. Praise them for their work, pay attention at their questions and support them. treat them with respect and communicate with them as with a friend.

Saudade Roxo

saudaderoxo — 2016-06-20 10:45:42 UTC

Prevent the child to experience, help her excessively on tasks, criticize it negatively in front of the group ... these are some points that will transform a child in to an adult dependent, unable to make decisions, in short... a non-resilient adult.

Oana Costache, Romania

oanacostache12 — 2016-06-20 10:49:30 UTC

The students need trust , attention and real support from their theachers.

Despoina Amarantidou, Greece

damarant — 2016-06-20 10:50:32 UTC

Students need to be awarded for what they do even if they do not perform perfectly. What really matters is the effort. Positive comments are always well-accepted and promote their self-confidence. A teacher should act as a facilitator and improve his/her students' capacities.

Raffaella,italy

rafmag16 — 2016-06-20 10:59:57 UTC

We can weaken our student's confidence and independence when we don't encourage them to know each other and develop social relationships with each other.Moreover we don't enjoy time spent with our students.

Olga Passalidou, Kozani, Greece

2016-06-20 11:04:57 UTC

A toxic classroom atmosphere is not hard to create. Irony, scolding students especially in front of their peers, work beyond their level of abilities and an excessive workload, not emphathising with their specific problems, not giving praise, not involving them in the lesson in some way, not showing real-world relevance. Not keeping in mind at all times we are there to help them, not show off.

Uğur TÜRK, TURKEY

ugurogretmen — 2016-06-20 11:06:55 UTC

In school, an effective student-teacher relationship to improve what can be done? To accomplish this, the school administration and teachers, addressing the needs of the students beyond their academic, social, emotional and behavioral issues should be involved. Teacher and student relationships are healthy, safe and happy atmosphere in the class in the desired environment is created. Such environments on students ' knowledge, skills and desirable behaviors in order to obtain the most suitable places. In a school, how important is the leadership exhibited by the school principal, instructional leadership exhibited by the classroom teacher is so important. The teacher, the students in the classroom to knowledge-skill-attitude, give them LOVE, RESPECT, happiness, tolerance, Loyalty, friendship and staying on good terms discipline, order concepts, such as they must offer. Effective teachers are aware of such relationships and positive build positive relationships and constantly strive to improve it. At school, the school administration and teachers by showing interest in a student with a problem, cooperation of family members, consorting with the school soyutlayacagi away from making them. School administration and teachers in order to establish effective communication and relationship with students, must pay attention to the following issues.

Probably the easiest way is to concetrate on failures not success. Criticism not praising.

ola_djuric — 2016-06-20 11:09:13 UTC

Ola, Poland

Paola Panicucci

paolapanicucci1 — 2016-06-20 11:12:11 UTC

The most negative and discouraging approach is this: saying "you are so" when a pupil is mistaken, instead of
" you did so".

Spasija Neshkoska Cuculeska

2016-06-20 11:12:23 UTC

Potentiating mistakes and failure, excluding certain students, ignoring someone’s work and effort no matter how good or bad it is, no feedback , not including yourself enough, spreading negative thoughts and energy lead to lack of confidence and underachievement.
Students need to be included, their opinion appreciated, their work and effort valued and their success praised. They need to be heard and respected and treated equally. Teachers who succeed at this obtain students trust and achieve even unexpected results.

SP

2016-06-20 11:12:53 UTC

Not ensuring that both extremes, the most and the least challenged students in a group, are provided with adequate material is one of the worst contributions to students' work ethics - as are unrealistic self-evaluations on behalf of the students.

Raminta, Lithuania

ramke27 — 2016-06-20 11:13:43 UTC

It is so easy to make a student "close" from you and other students by criticizing or mocking in public. A good teacher always cares about the atmosphere in the classroom, sees, observes and encourages each student. Praising for doing something good or significant is also a key to successful communication and building a mutually trusted relationship.

Vilija, Lithuania

vilija_rakstiene — 2016-06-20 11:18:46 UTC

If we don't pay attention to students' initiatives and forget to praise them for their work, it is very easy to weaken their confidence.

Regina

regina_duarte — 2016-06-20 11:19:26 UTC

We can give students task only possible for the most proficient ones. That way, some of them will never be able to be successful in a task. That will mine their confidence.

Marianthi Tachatou, Greece

tachmariana — 2016-06-20 11:23:29 UTC

We can weaken our students' confidence by criticizing them in public, giving them tasks above their capacities and making them feel useless. Also, we can weaken their independence by always giving them uided tasks, cloze questions and not letting them think and research by themselves.

Pavel, Lithuania

stefanovic_pavel — 2016-06-20 11:30:35 UTC

Maybe it sounds very trivially, but in my opinion, the best way is to keep them motivate and to trust that they can overcome the problem.

Beata, Edinburgh College.

bwerner — 2016-06-20 11:33:18 UTC

I am a big fan of criticism as long as it is CONSTRUCTIVE. Criticising them to put them down rather than give constructive feedback is a good way to weaken their resilience. Asking a turtle to compete with a monkey in climbing a tree is another way to discourage them even to try to do things. We should give them tasks they are not able to perform if we want to weaken their resilience. Finally, giving them no feedback but a sigh (read: You are a waste of space) is even better if we want to kill whatever resilience is left.

Barbara Trivelli

dotriv — 2016-06-20 12:11:03 UTC

Personaly I never say: "You are mistaking", I simply ask if someone alse has a different opinion/solution, then together we compare which works better. Working this pupils aged 3, 4 and 5 I need to be very careful not to weaken their self-esteem so I always start my sentence with:"Bravo. Well done, but maybe, if you could/should ..."

Irene Confalone-Italy

2016-06-20 12:24:02 UTC

We have to pay attention to students' initiatives and forget their mistakes otherwise they feel unsuccessful and it is very easy to weaken their confidence. I like to motivate them underlining their strong points and saying all the time : "You are great beacuse of your creativity"...."You are great because of your kindness".

Luisa, Italy

luisabosio — 2016-06-20 12:42:33 UTC

TYPICAL EXAMPLE: the frontal lesson.
The attention of the teacher is directed more to the performance of the program to the promotion of the learning process of the students. The teacher, formed a tradition that wanted him committed faithful implementation of the provisions given above, circular or educational programs that were, focuses its efforts mainly in the presentation, explanation of the programmatic content illustration, comprised mostly of knowledge.

He enters the room and makes lesson, explains the ideas, explains the concepts, offers proofs of theorems. And 'this is his overriding commitment, in which deep his culture and his teaching skills, meaning the ability to expose, to demonstrate, to explicate, to illustrate the ideas. He addressed his lecture pupils, a class of 25 pupils, more or less heterogeneous, but amorphous, without faces, without faces, without a well-defined identity.

The tacit and implicit assumption is that it is for students to listen, understand and feel what the professor explain. The understanding and learning are private problems of pupils, they fall in their duties of pupils, of which they are held accountable. The error is demonized!

Vasiliki Psaridou/ Greece

psaridou — 2016-06-20 12:42:59 UTC

I believe that we all as teachers face everyday in class students that find difficult to keep on with the learning program. Personally I try to give them a boost when it's neccessary and congratulate them on their effort. However, I try, as well, to mention that they should try even more the next time in order not to stay behind.

Cristina, Italy

cristina_casanova — 2016-06-20 12:48:06 UTC

I try to teach, before everything, to be resolute. Independence means to achieve knowledge reflected

Petra

2016-06-20 13:22:34 UTC

The worst sentences we can use are "there you go again...I know you can't do this...if you don't know this...etc." Never assume that someone knows or doesn't know something.

Snezhana/ Bulgaria

s_tzonkova — 2016-06-20 13:25:06 UTC

Here are several thing we can do to weaken our students' confidence:
Assign tasks which are beyond students' abilities; Interrupt them all the time in order to correct their mistakes;
Correct the mistakes - in red or another bright colour - on the final project product or presentation before displaying it; Tell them they won't do it before they have even started, etc.

Martina, Italy

tosomartina — 2016-06-20 13:25:11 UTC

We are so used at correcting mistakes, that we concentrate on flaws instead of competences. We should reverse this attitude and start paying attention first of all to students' special and personal abilities.

Filomena, Italy

prof_montella — 2016-06-20 13:26:11 UTC

Often beginning the lesson with brainstorming ; Then we analyze the errors with students and then we create the norm

Annalisa A-

isaese77 — 2016-06-20 13:26:45 UTC

Sometimes we don't pay attention to start with activities that students like and it doesn't create a supportive envinment.

Ioanna/Greece

2016-06-20 13:43:25 UTC

Public criticism

Negative expressions

Low expectations

Constant guidance

Francesca Tassi, Italy

2016-06-20 13:51:57 UTC

Using too much structured activities; talking with students just for checking their knowledge and without asking for their opinions; asking too many yes/no - right/wrong questions instead of driving open-ended questions...in a word when we trust and have expectations more in their memory only that in their critical and creative thinking, we take away from them the chance to become self-confident and independent, a better person.

Panayiota,Cyprus

y_athanasiou — 2016-06-20 14:00:18 UTC

we can weaken our pupil's confidence with negative and sarcastic comments, criticism, low expectations, forget to support and praise them

Helena Paixão

helenagpaixao — 2016-06-20 14:01:54 UTC

We can weaken our student´s confidance with low expectations and public criticism.

Anthi, Greece

2016-06-20 14:04:36 UTC

You can make your students less resilient if:

You give them to do activities that they don't like
You give them to accomplish projects with little connection to reality
You give them detailed instructions about the solution of a problem
They have no opportunity to improve their work through supportive feedback and assessment

Jasna, Croatia

jasna_sojer — 2016-06-20 14:15:43 UTC

Ignorance, treating students as objects whose only task is to sit, listen and be quiet and after some time just reproduce teachers lecture is the way how teachers can weaken students confidence and independence.

Vania (Italy)

2016-06-20 14:18:41 UTC

Teachers can weaken students’ confidence and independence when:

· they don’t reward every little effort they make;

· they don’t create a positive and relaxed atmosphere

· They correct them every time students make a mistake.

Vicky Archondi, Greece

vicky_archondi — 2016-06-20 14:19:50 UTC

It is not difficult to create a negative learning environment if firstly we remain indifferent even apathetic to our students needs and interests...if we insist on criticising them and not praising them..if we are telling them off even with no apparent reason..if we assign unmanageable tasks and excessive homework..if we leave no room to voice their world and boost their creativity..if we are there just to teach and not to be taught by them.

Pasqua Aida, Italy

aidapappalepore — 2016-06-20 14:24:00 UTC

If you want your students to become frustrated and more fragile tell them.” You are unable to do anything”, “You can’t draw” and so on..If you want your students to be more confident even after a failure, tell them to try again because their work is meaningful and everyone can do better and gradually improve if only you think it’s worthwhile.

Patrizia Brion, Italy

2016-06-20 14:28:17 UTC

Students become less resistant if:
• Give them to do unpleasant tasks and engaging;
• The same activities have little connection with reality;
• Give them detailed instructions on how to solve the problem without leaving a chance to look together for possible solutions;
• Your feedback is such that de-motivate the students.

Nikoudis Nikolaos

2016-06-20 14:32:52 UTC

Greece
When a teacher is
passionate.

Emiliana Rufo, Italy

emiliana_rufo — 2016-06-20 14:33:57 UTC

Teachers can weaken student's confidence and independence when they don't show passion for their job, when it seems there is lack of motivation in teaching, the atmosphere in the classroom is boring and there are no ways to let time passes by.

When a teacher is passionate and motivated and shows interest for the students, he/she contributes to strengthen student's confidence and independence: by giving them a lot of opportunities to express themselves and let them take part in their learning in an active way by helping, sharing, cooperating, solving problems, MAKING their own knowledge and understanding.

Our students became more resilient when the teacher is helpful only when there is real need, she is near but at the same time she is far, she looks each other and they understand.

sabina_giolo — 2016-06-20 14:41:18 UTC

The teacher must yet know the real needs of every student.

Maria Libera Di Florio

mliberadfl — 2016-06-20 14:47:53 UTC

First of all pupils have to be in self confident in order to sharing their feelings and thoughts freely. In this way they are encouraged to believe in learning goal. In generally they can make progress without support through interests and passion, but sometime they feel in chains and are passive subjects.

Francesca Neiviller

2016-06-20 14:47:56 UTC

Teachers take the least or the worst from their students when they teach without love, passion and interest, when they force them to do activities they don't want or are not interested in, teachers and students are successful when they learn together!!!!

Laura Gentili

2016-06-20 15:04:22 UTC

In a recent Learning event (How to build resilience at school) I learnt that resilience refers to the capacity to return to good mental health having survived a difficult situation. It is the ability to cope with problems and setbacks, to adapt and bounce back when things don´t go as planned. Moreover, esilience does not erase life's difficulties. Instead, it gives people the strength to tackle problems head on, overcome adversity and move on with their lives.

Akay YÜKSEL, TURKEY

2016-06-20 15:08:55 UTC

On the way from a random picture technique
As a starting point to be found on any book or poster is trying to reach a random picture from a tangible object. Be found in any book in the class is selected. The picture with the picture from the messages that are given to a brainstorming about what students understand and what could be done.
Given the message about the picture and students ' ideas from a tangible object is trying to reach. Students in this study intended to develop thinking and skills necessary to switch from a concrete object to abstract concepts.
For the purpose of triggering creative thinking in students is one of the most simple methods. A book class is taken. Brainstorming to be done on an image opened it to a random page is selected. “Different methods for image selection can be used. Ex: first picture since that will be encountered will be opened to a random page, from the beginning 11. painting etc”. The picture selection is made after students share them with the class about the picture that comes to mind is the thoughts. Students: think about what implies what in the picture made it, etc. his thoughts they share them with the class. In this way, students can be added and what can be changed what is in an existing object or a different object, or passing on to the subject they use it as an official tool.
This method can be applied in different ways to the class. The removal of a feature of the image, a discussion of the good or bad aspects, the evaluation can be developed in different ways in different time frames, such as picture.

Maria Jacinto

luisad741 — 2016-06-20 15:13:29 UTC

Criticism and lack of passion weakens the love for learning. Criticism makes one wonder if he/she can do anything and lack of passion takes the curiosity out of something that isn't interesting.

Daniela Lanzo,Italy

daniela_lanzo — 2016-06-20 15:17:37 UTC

how to create a positive learning environement?
first of all showing students that you really care about their learning and you really want them to acquire the right skills . Students must perceive that you are doing what you are doing because you believe in them and in their capabilities and not because it is your job !!! So first of all:ENTHUSIASM !!!
a good learning environment is then based on respect and respect must be taught by example : we as teachers have to respect our students , appreciate every little effort, be empathic and always PRAISE them. Only in this way they will be able to learn how to respect others and establish good relationship.
Explain them since the beginning that they are a group and work as a team but they are different at the same time. In so doing students will understand why their work is assessed differently.

Valentina, Bulgaria

valia_tr — 2016-06-20 15:19:59 UTC

The most important is gain pupil's belief, have good relationships with kids, where they feel important, unique and understood by their teacher. In the classroom the teacher have to try to establish and reinforce an atmosphere where children are praised for their hard work, perseverance and good doings, not just for grades and successes; to learn them that the failure, setbacks, and disappointment are an expected and honoured part of learning, but they have to keep on and their effort will be rewarded.
The students need trust, attention and real support from their teachers.

Anne Marie, Ireland

annemarie6 — 2016-06-20 15:21:56 UTC

By provide task that are too easy or too difficult.Also we have to watch for the messages we give to children. Children need to know we believe in them.

Renato Sousa, Portugal

renatosousamail — 2016-06-20 15:26:35 UTC

I believe the most important thing is to have a great relationship with the students. That way, you will be able to do almost everything with them. If their teacher is someone they can trust, that’s a plus! The fact that students feel that their teacher understands them is really important.

Inside the classroom, reinforcement is a powerful tool, but it has to be positive reinforcement and not negative. Nobody is happy with failures, so we, teachers, need to praise students’ work and their effort. Criticism and humiliating is not the way! Definitely.

Ausenda Silva, Portugal

conceicao1964 — 2016-06-20 15:32:58 UTC

I always try to create emphaty with my students. In primary school in Portugal we stay four years with a class and its a lot of time, if we dont creat a good relation with the students is a very hard task. I notice that over the years it is incresingly most hard to have this climate in the classroom. Some of the students have no will to stay in class, we have indiscipline to contain, sometimes is very hard to manage. But the other students have no guilt and have the right to learn too. WE must go to formation and know the interests of students.The teachers need to work in many ways and reach all the students no mater what that may coust.

Iliyana, Bulgaria

2016-06-20 15:40:53 UTC

The question here is how we can weaken our students’ confidence and independence. It happens when we don’t encourage them and forget to praise their even small achievement, when we want too much but we don’t give enough so they may lose their faith in themselves and become demotivated for work for a long time. Then it will be difficult for the teacher to bring back the students’ interest in learning.

Nils Kersten

2016-06-20 15:41:31 UTC

In my opinion you weaken your students if you do not let them explore and present them the results.

Anna G

annag — 2016-06-20 15:57:43 UTC

A good classroom environment is the opposite of these five points, and relationships are positive and respectful:
1 - underline weaknesses, and plan many repetitive exercises to solve them
2 - leave alone weak students
3 - criticize on a regular basis students who do not participate in the class activities
4 - ask them to repeat what they are taught
5 - tell student that they are going to fail

Theodosis, Cyprus

2016-06-20 16:05:22 UTC

Auto-assessment is really helpful to boost self-confidence and independency on the learning habits.

Andrea Marri, Italy

noxruit — 2016-06-20 16:11:28 UTC

I think not challenging enough our students is the best way to weaken their willingness to succeed through struggle. Just like letting them play golf with an hole as big as a lake.

Gabriela Sandru, Romania

gabrielasandru — 2016-06-20 16:19:11 UTC

What NOT to do - criticize in front of the class, let other students make fun of weaker ones, not care enough to bring motivational tasks to class, teaching based exclusively on the 'lecture' type, ignore weaker students.

Irina Vasilescu

2016-06-20 16:28:13 UTC

What NOT to do- Do not accept mistakes as a step in the learning process, make students feel guilty and ridiculous when they make mistakes.

Silvia

laprofsilvia — 2016-06-20 16:30:28 UTC

many adults often use an aggressive attitude toward children. Many adults say that they use this way to strengthen the character of childrens, while most of the time the result they get is the opposite. Is orrible when a teacher does not respect the "times" and the sensibility of its pupils, when a teacher judges a boy from the result of a single wrong test..

Luisa De Rosa

2016-06-20 16:32:36 UTC

I think to create a good learning climate in a class:
1 you do not expect everyone to behave in the same way
2 must not only give space to safer
3 you do not mortify those who err
4 must also strengthen the smallest success
5 must avoid forms of passive collaboration

Maria Sorvillo

maria_sorvillo_rosaria — 2016-06-20 16:58:02 UTC

Promote the opportunity for dialogue,give confidence to students,accustom them to a cooperative work,where everyone can contribute according to their abilities,also motivate them to seck solutions to simple problems,help them make a connection between what is said in the classroom during class and life outside of

Antonietta Calò- Italy

tonia_calo — 2016-06-20 17:03:06 UTC

DON’T SAY:

This exercise is too difficult for you!

Your question is really stupid!
Why don’t you pay attention during my explanation?

You never understand !

I think this kind of school doesn’t suit you!

Paola arcelli

2016-06-20 17:10:08 UTC

Use the " nice try trick " praising students for the effort more than for the results
Smile and be happy and when you are really cross at something put the stress on the way you feel more than on what happened
Be fair but firm with students

Rosa Crispino, Italy

2016-06-20 17:18:22 UTC

Don't say never to a child "You can do it". It's important for him to understand that if something seem to him difficult he has to try to find a way to solve. He can do it! The teacher has to encourage the children to do their best and involve as possible in interesting activities.

Isabel Cachada

isabelcachadaber — 2016-06-20 17:21:39 UTC

An environment of trust must be created in which students feel comfortable to ask the questions without feeling criticized. The student should be valued, encourage and, when they need, supported in their difficulties.
"It does not have to be the best have to give your best

Juanlusz

juanlusz — 2016-06-20 17:23:26 UTC

One way of how we as teachers can weaken our student's confidence and independence is not defining learning objectives for the lesson or setting up irrelevant objectives

Annalisa Di Pierro, Italy

adipierro — 2016-06-20 17:32:54 UTC

According to me to weaken students' confidence and independence it's important to involve them in the teaching-learning method, creating rubrics and assessing their works. These actions helps them to understand their mistakes, gives them the motivation to do better next time and feel active in their role of learners.

Maria Boukorou

2016-06-20 17:36:20 UTC

Greece
It will be a great benefit for our students if we never tell them: it is easy to understand, it is easy to do it. We only have to let them try by themselves and understand how easy or difficult was the whole thing.

Elisa Meschisi, Italy

elimesc — 2016-06-20 17:48:12 UTC

The first part of the school year should be devoted to understand our student's personality and help them to feel protected and encouraged at school. Anyone can learn anything but the atmosphere in class is important.

Stathis Likidis, Greece

slikidis — 2016-06-20 18:12:14 UTC

As teachers we can weaken our student's confidence and independence with many ways. Firstly, we criticize them for their mistakes instead of encouraging to understand what went wrong. If we never reward their bit successes but always complain and ask for more. If we give them instruction on how to solve a problem without giving them the opportunity to work independently. If we are satisfied with the less instead of trying to persuade them to seek for more. By giving them no motivations they learn to be pathetic , scared without any interest.

Rosi Flórez, Spai

rosamflorez — 2016-06-20 18:17:28 UTC

If what we want is to discourage and put our students against learning you only have to do the contrary we usually do in our daily tasks. Things such as laughing at them in front of their peers when they make mistakes, using irony and criticizing their way of doing things to break their confidence and make them feel discouraged, giving them task above or under their abilities with no chance to apply what they have learnt or without real world relevance, to mention but a few.

Marina Ferrari, Italy

merlinilmago — 2016-06-20 18:19:20 UTC

Bad teachers can alienate students from learning. In my work I develop cooperation between students and the forms of mutual instruction. this methodology is a focal point in fact assuming that cooperative learning is a set of teaching techniques that are based on group work and have the function as the core foundation of social mediation between pupils. In classes where I worked this year the levels are uneven and could have created the de-motivating feedback in the students, working in cooperative learning skills were achieved by all, albeit with different consciousnesses and the classroom climate was extremely proactive . In fact, in a cooperative group, each member becomes a participant of their act and at the same time sees growth through a process of a product that helps to raise self-esteem, a sense of belonging and to have a critical sense. I therefore believe that cooperative learning is an educational approach that allows systematically to small groups of students to work together to mutually enhance their learning. So it does not work in competition, but to achieve transversal and common learning objectives and create a cohesive team. You create a supportive atmosphere and a learning environment that invites learners to take part in activities with the awareness of being able.

Miriam

mbergin — 2016-06-20 18:28:38 UTC

The question is how can we weaken student confidence. .By not using Google AFLS to assess and get student feedback.

Elsa Pereira, PT

elsammhp — 2016-06-20 18:32:30 UTC

The students need trust, courage, attention and real support from their theachers Use the " nice try trick " praising students for the effort more than for the results. Never demote the ideas, even they seem preposterous from a student.

Smile and be happy and when you are really cross at something put the stress  on the way you feel more than on what happened

Be fair but firm with students

Marijana Dvorski

marijana_dvorski — 2016-06-20 18:40:10 UTC

Reverse brainstorming (students resilience) - I'll do that instead of you, let him/her to do that, to be part of the activitiy, you can't do that, that's too hard for you, don't even try it, you made a mistake again, you don't understand, you should do better, no way you can do that all by yourself and so on.

michela A

2016-06-20 18:47:48 UTC

Self-confidence is an important part of happiness and success at school and in life. Student may find themsevews inadequate when teachers criticize their work perfomances or clearly don't believe in their abilities. A good teacher should encourage students, praise their efforts, support ideas or point of views and help them to be self-confident

Lefteris Plavos, Greece

plavos_eleftherios — 2016-06-20 19:01:46 UTC

A toxic learning environment is not difficult to create. If we criticise our students negatively and publicly, if we scold them with no serious reason, if we give tasks that they cannot handle, if we constantly underestimate whatever they are doing, if we don't care about them....how can we expect their resilience to be built?

I apply a simple tactic. Even if an answer is wrong, I discuss it, commenting that the student, participates and generally I give positive feedback

ioannispad — 2016-06-20 19:17:17 UTC

Elena

eloiz123 — 2016-06-20 19:18:57 UTC

A good way is to create a positive classroom environment. Praise every little success of individual students, avoid using negative words even in comments that sound innocent and inoffensive.
Assure them that it's OK to make mistakes; everyone does! encourage them to give examples of famous people and their failures before achieving their goals.
Spend some time to find more about your students, their interests, their weaknesses and their strengths/skills; ask other colleagues who have previously taught them. show genuine interest.
Differentiate and try to cater for individual needs

mbacita — 2016-06-20 19:27:19 UTC

I guide my students to find the right answer at their own pace! I know I'm not a very patient person so I'm doing my best to correct it

Cinzia, Italy.

2016-06-20 19:32:39 UTC

I base my work on the team spirit, the desire to learn and joy!

Maria Anna Casoria

goli291174 — 2016-06-20 19:38:55 UTC

To create a classroom environment that supports students to become confident and independent learners, I give easy and different tasks . Instead of praising students’personal abilities, it would be better to praise their work, commitment and effort.

Gaia, Italy

gaialombardi69 — 2016-06-20 20:02:07 UTC

Self-esteem, confidence and resilience are some of the greatest things we can help our students to reach.
I try to be myself resilient, confident and consistent. But, first of all, I always put my pupils at the center of their learning process. I respect them and their ideas, so they can learn to respect each others. In my experience, this kind of relationship increases the communication through the class.

Tine DK

2016-06-20 20:02:28 UTC

My first rule is: show respect for the talking person - we listen to each other. Any try is valued as long as you do your best and want to do your best. I am not very good at coping with these pupils who spoil or neglect teamwork for their own pleasure and benefit

Madalena Quental, Portugal

madalena_quental — 2016-06-20 20:06:55 UTC

Our students are resilient when they know that they have a support network; parents, teachers or other agents that can help, guide and encourage them with their growth and learning, making them self-confident or self-assured in tasks and in their work.

Duygu EFETÜRK, The core of my classes is flexibility so that the students feel free to make mistakes and they learn better.

duygu_efe_turk — 2016-06-20 20:20:54 UTC

however,high expectations and wrong guidence cause the student to become unsuccessful and most of the time they tend to give in...

Angela Antonucci, Italy

2016-06-20 20:24:29 UTC

To support students to become confident and independent learners I always avoid criticism. I encourage collaboration and involve students in lesson planning. Recovery from mistakes is also important because we learn from past errors.

Roberta To help my students become confident and more independent, I start suggesting activities that are easier at the beginning and make students feel successful and rewarded, I create a positive atmosphere, and show interest and willingness to offer my support anytime.

r_gramenzi — 2016-06-20 20:37:09 UTC

Litsa Glarou/Greece

seagullitsa — 2016-06-20 20:37:22 UTC

There are times that teachers consciously or unconsciously weaken their student's confidence and independence. When they deride, insult, understate or they mind only for the good students.

Project based learning is a good way to strengthen mystudent's confidence and independence. I try to involve all my students in the lesson asking simple questions or posing team activities.I don’t deride, don’t insult, don’t understate if they give a wrong answer. I encourage them and I reward them. Ιwant them to be happy and feel proud of themselves.

Myrto, Greece

myrtoner — 2016-06-20 20:49:51 UTC

Teachers weaken students' confidence when they don’t apply differentiated instruction; when they stick to the curriculum no matter what their students’ needs really are.

Raffaella Aiuppa, Italy

raffa702010 — 2016-06-20 21:12:19 UTC

Teachers, most of the times, voluntary or not, behave in such a way as to undermine students' confidence. We tend to criticise students, to stess bad behaviours in front of the other students and to create a negative LEARNING ENVIRONMENT.
On THe other hand, a positive environment , where students are praised and rewarded for every single reached goal MAKES THE REAL DIFFERENCE.

Alina Popa

popalina21 — 2016-06-20 21:18:58 UTC

I have noticed that when students are criticised, blamed they won`t cooperate in normal way . There it grows a break between teacher and child relation. That is why I am always pliable and understanding with them, trying to look ""through them"', to find always the good parts in them. The encouragements , praises, giving self-confident all the time is more efficient in nowdays , and this goes certain to the best benefits for all. Me as teacher, them as learners , school and comunity. Even the "'bad"' (distructive) students can be taken easy and make them to be good if we apply the proper method .

Amelia De Chiara

2016-06-20 21:19:50 UTC

Teachers can weaken student's confidence and independence when they don’t consider students’ strengths and needs, when they criticize them and never encourage their efforts, when they don’t help kids to control frustration and feelings of inadequacy, when they don’t give each student the opportunity to participate in learning process, when they don’ encourage and praise their students.

Marilia from Portugal

2016-06-20 21:32:50 UTC

It’s easy to weaken our student’s confidence and independence when we: don’t care about their difficulties,use negative language, question student’s answers, don’t encourage a supportive environment.

To create a classroom environment that supports students to become confident and independent learners the teacher has to be a role-model, showing his/her students that he/she has passion for the job, loves working with their students and that he/she is there to help them with their learning and not to punish them. Teachers should use an inclusive teaching in order not to exclude any student from opportunities to learn. I also think that giving students positive reinforcement makes them more confident.

Doina Andrei, Roman

2016-06-20 22:00:52 UTC

Often less persistent students believe that good students somehow are just smarter or find the work easier than they do. Learning that everyone needs to work hard at times can be an epiphany for some students. So we must help students to see the connection between effort and success. We also should teach our students that their work does not always have to be perfect to be acceptable. Sometimes “good enough” is really good enough. Other students are so accustomed to overly helpful adults who respond to their learned helplessness with so many hints and clues that they do not really have to think for themselves. We’ve got to make students set reasonable goals and work to achieve them. When students work to achieve a personal goal, they have a vested interest in working. Nothing succeeds like success. When we design activities where the students can shine, they will want to continue the positive feelings generated by that success. =

Madalina

2016-06-20 22:29:55 UTC

We need to give them a constructive feedback everytime and to be able to notice every small progress!

Valentina P., Skopje

Nastavnickata — 2016-06-20 22:38:44 UTC

I start with the old saying, "Do to others what you want be done to you" and of course the opposite is weakening self confidence.

So, being ignored, belittled, interrupted when talking, disregarding their opinion with out explanation,... Need I go on?

Adelino, Portugal

bemarinhas — 2016-06-20 22:42:36 UTC

How can a teacher weaken student’s confidence and independence:
- Create a rigid and cold classroom environment;
- Don’t establish classroom rules or apply them arbitrarily
- Show preferences toward some student;
- Don’t scaffolding and criticize weaker students;
- Praise those who obtain best results.

Charikleia Thomaidou/GR

2016-06-21 00:32:02 UTC

Teachers can weaken student's confidence and independence when they don’t encourage their students, when they criticize them with a bad mood. Making sometimes jokes relaxes, so the opposite of being too serious may also weaken.

Christothea/Greece

2016-06-21 00:52:55 UTC

Teachers can weaken students’ confidence when:
 -They are indifferent about their students needs.
 -They neglect to consider students’ interests.
 -They criticize students.
 -They forget to praise and encourage.
 -They provide no constructive feedback.
 -They give meaningless tasks.

Viki Dogani

2016-06-21 01:32:10 UTC

creat confidence
make a self environment

put rules and studennt should agree

give them chances for their life
praise and encourage them

learn their inerests and give them work to do according to their interests

José Neto, PT

netodays — 2016-06-21 03:13:10 UTC

Pygmalion effect

In part, reality is constructed with our expectations and perceptions. Teachers who expect bad students and systematically criticize them, end up having poor students. No need to study Psychology to know that students are more like in the tasks when they feel someone recognize your work.

Evaggelia Sariggoli,Greece

evaggeliasariggoli — 2016-06-21 04:27:53 UTC

If we discuss our students'confidence and independence ,the key word is toxic or healthy classroom environment.When the teacher teaches the lesson and not the kids,when he scolds and critisizes harshly no matter what ,when he shows that he /she doesn't care about his/her students'psychological state and improvement,then the class environment is unhealthy and thus weakens st's confidence and independence.

Sundari Vijaybabu, Mindbx

2016-06-21 04:55:20 UTC

9 tips for encouraging students to become independant learners:

1. Provide students with opportunities to self-monitor

Self-monitoring depends on the two processes of establishing goals and receiving feedback from others and from oneself. You can encourage your students to self-monitor by helping them develop their use of self and peer assessment to see whether the strategies they were using were effective for achieving learning goals.

2. Use questioning as scaffolding to independent learning

The aim here is a gradual, step-by-step transfer of responsibility from the teacher to the student. The teacher must develop effective classroom discourse, asking higher order, open-ended questions, responding flexibly to students’ responses to promote thinking, problem-solving skills and deeper understanding.

3. Offer models of behaviour

Encourage your students to model your behaviour. For example, by showing them how categorising information can make it easier to remember.

4. Develop communication that includes language focused on learning

This helps students to become more aware of the steps involved in learning, to understand their own individual learning style and helps them share their thinking.

5. Provide written and/or oral feedback on classwork and homework

This can be a good way to improve students’ confidence in working independently. Limit use of attainment grades and scores and consider giving grades for level of effort.

6. Encourage collaboration

Give your students regular opportunities to complete quality, small group tasks and encourage them to learn from each other and develop their own ideas, rather than always looking to you for answers.

7. Give pupils choices and encourage your students to set their own learning goals

So that they can reflect on their own interests and preferences and take ownership of their learning, this will make your students feel empowered and in control of their own learning.

8. Involve pupils again in lesson planning

Asking your students for their input will help them feel that they have a responsibility for and involvement in their own learning.Video reflections can help you recognise the level of student involvement in a lesson and allow you to plan your practice better.

9. Encourage your pupils to be reflective

Suggesting your students keep a ‘learning diary’ can enable them to keep track of their learning and monitor their progress. Hopefully their confidence will increase as they look back and become aware of how far they've come throughout the school year.

Maria Giuseppa Sallemi, Italy

2016-06-21 05:16:07 UTC

The techer must to encourage the students to seek knowledge and be creative she has to
avoids to focusing on failure or negative behaviors
It's very important to believe in their ability that they can improve.

Neringa

nstravinskiene — 2016-06-21 05:35:57 UTC

Students should understanding they work can be based their options and viewpoint. They should know wehre they can get help and advises. The teacher should prepare tasks and questions clear and interesting, her should give for students support, opportunity.

Claudia de Crescenzo

maestradisogni — 2016-06-21 06:41:55 UTC

We as teachers have a powerful influence on our students, and we can help them feel confident and proud of themselves and their accomplishments. For example we could give students the opportunity to choose what they learn -- this will help them build their self-worth. We should try a learning menu or choice board where students get to choose which activities they want to learn about.

Francesca Lovece (Italy)

flovece — 2016-06-21 06:46:07 UTC

I agree with a large part of your strategies but I recommend that it still exists a limit to a positive context. This is too much:

Mehmet ALACA (TURKEY) Brainstorming can be done alone or with a group. The idea does not come to mind are asked to disclose. Ideas can not be judged first and not criticized, no idea can not be regarded as absurd, so do not hesitate to contact all the ideas, it is attempted to offer as it comes to mind.

2016-06-21 07:27:11 UTC

Loris, Italy

2016-06-21 07:27:20 UTC

In my opinion, the important thing is to build on what students already know. Most of works can be thought as “work in progress”. Students start their activity, achieve an incomplete/improvable result, get comments and hints (from teachers and/or other students), improve their work. In this way they learn that there is no perfection, and things that look good are actually the result of a long-term effort. It is useful to show, for example, the history of a page on Wikipedia, where everybody can see that the work was huge to obtain the page we see today (and, still, it will be improved tomorrow).

Sonia Sáez, Spain

2016-06-21 07:33:40 UTC

students must get encouraged by the teacher's methodology and didactic material to make the subject interesting

Angelo, Rivoli, Italy

Angelo — 2016-06-21 07:57:56 UTC

To "break the students' back" as independent learners the means are well known and simple:

sit at the chair, do not mix with students, keep your distance;
always give full explanations, not to leave any doubt that without your intervention, they are not able to understand anything;
strictly you choose all;
establish the tests with minimal notice as possible;
establish the evaluation criteria without offering the opportunity to discuss them, and absolutely not communicate these criteria in advance.

If you teach Latin, there you go: Latin grammar is perfect to create a state of permanent minority.

Daniela Pagnini

daniela_pagnini — 2016-06-21 08:09:45 UTC

What not to do. Discourage the students’ motivation with destructive personal criticism. One other misdeed could be excluding some students from incentives and rewards because they have not achieve completely the goal. Students require some form of stimulus to activate, provide direction for, and encourage persistence in their study and learning efforts. Motivation is this energy to study, to learn and achieve and to maintain these positive behaviors over time. Motivation is what stimulates students to acquire, transform and use knowledge.' James Groccia 1992

Jenny Bolander, Sweden

jenbol0208 — 2016-06-21 08:26:21 UTC

Working with people one need to identify the basics needs of every human, based on the needs hierarchy of Maslov. Apart from sleep, food and all the other basic needs, humans also need to feel that they can make their own decisions - to be codetermining in their own lives. They also need to be heard, that what they have to say is heard by somebody else. When these needs are fulfilled the human can start developing different safety skills and fulfilling their safety needs.

To void the students from their chance to be heard in the classroom and to make them feel that they don't have a chance to decide over their work, will discourage them to take a further step in their development and their work in school and with them selves.

Grazia Paladino, Italy

graziampl — 2016-06-21 08:37:02 UTC

I think, even to have it tried several times, that the best way to overcome the difficulties you face them with patience. How to do with their students? Find the activities in which even the shyest and least good can succeed and reach the goal, even encouraging them after a failure, help them along the way, inviatarli to reflect on the reasons for failure. To organize cooperative activity with heterogeneous groups can be a right way, so that the best students can be tutors of the less good, but not doing their job, but supporting the learning process

Margherita

2016-06-21 09:00:26 UTC

HOW weaken student? Simple, always descourage and criticize their work and behaviour.If we start from what they know and can do we make them feel confident and we can ask to add a new task to improve their abilities. Students will learn that step by step they can go far ahead.

jenbol0208 — 2016-06-21 09:08:30 UTC

Ornella Lasaponara, Italy

veraornellasap — 2016-06-21 09:26:34 UTC

Very often teachers see as a unique form of teaching the explanation followed by Tasks in the class of questions with closed answers ... The sciolism is a memory training course , it is not for Resilience

emma giurlani Italy

2016-06-21 09:35:28 UTC

the worst thing we can do and which can weaken our student's confidence and independence is to give them the feeling of being steadily on trial and that even the smallest imperfection will be judged and assessed.Too many times our students loose interest because they become discouraged and disheartened through teacher's judging attitude. Too often pupils are simply required to regurgitate information with the precise way and even by using the same words they have heard : this is they old fashioned way we have been forced to build our knowledge . I found the words of Tedd Wakeman/PlayMaker co-teacher real illuminating:
"Avoid students regurgitating information, because We are trying to prepare kids for a future where the problems are problems that we can’t really even imagine.....Help students to become curious and creative and want to take risks… be lifelong learners…..agency and value and relevance are things that we all value as adults. Why on earth would we not value them as kids?"

Tatjana Waldek, Estonia

2016-06-21 09:35:52 UTC

Criticize their ideas! The teachers in the Soviet time behaved like queens (we called them like that ;) - only their opinion mattered, only they knew what was right or wrong. To be respected by your students does not mean your students should think like you.

Daniela Barbieri,Italy

dani_barb — 2016-06-21 09:40:32 UTC

To support students to become confident and independent learners the means are:
encourage them to seek knowledge and to be creative
believe in their abilities
don't criticize them
create confidence

Annalisa Tosi, Italy

19annalisa_tosi82 — 2016-06-21 10:13:18 UTC

I think the worst things a teacher can do in order to demotivate his/her students are those of using evaluation as a sort of punishment and doing explicit comparisons between students' works, dividing the class into good students and bad students. I experienced this when I was a student and it is extremely frustrating. Although a person may be extremely intelligent, indeed, s/he is labelled in such a negative way (at first by the teacher, but then also by his/her classmates) that even if s/he may perform much better than other students s/he arrives to limit him/herself because of the image other people have contributed to create of that person. This is particularly dangerous during the periods of pre-adolescence and adolescence, when students are passing through a phase of demolition of their old self and reconstruction of a brand new personality and self-awareness.

tiziana angiolini from ITALY

Tizianateacher — 2016-06-21 10:17:19 UTC

These two articles from the HUFFINGTON POST explain what good teachers can do
to support learners: love them and get good interaction
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shanna-peeples/love-before-curriculum_b_7963050.utm_hp_ref=tw

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-e-slavin/love-and-evidence_b_9208326.html
If we forget what our learners want and why we have become educators we forget that we play an important role.
LOVING our students is a must. If we want to destroy them we do not support them, we approach them in the wrong way and we become responsible for their failures.
Sometimes I have faced the situation in which I could not stand what was happening in class and I realize that I chose the wrong approach as I made some of them feel disappointed and they stopped working.

Karolina, Croatia

karolina_brlekovic — 2016-06-21 10:18:46 UTC

If you tell to the pupil at the start that they can not do that, so why trying.
But some students can be revolted and try to proof you that they can.

Emanuela Boffa Italy

2016-06-21 10:26:50 UTC

Teachers can weaken their students when they aren't able to listen them, or when they care about to carry out the school program don't respect the students time to learn or when they don't give themselves a challenge by adopting new strategies, when they are dissatisfied of their work and their activities bored the class. Teachers don't be negative when they speak about their students .

In other hand this course help teacher to became good teachers . In the video we can see different ideas to help students:
USE ACTIVITIES THAT STUDENTS LIKE, ENCOURAGE THEM TO SEEK KNOWLEDGE AND BE CREATIVE, SHOW STUDENTS THAT YOU CARE THEM, ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO LEARN EACH OTHER, ENABLE STUDENTS TO BE OPEN-MIND, ENJOY TIME SPEND WITH STUDENTS

Maria Lucia Savino

marialucia_savino — 2016-06-21 10:38:56 UTC

I think that a teacher could weaken students' motivation criticizing their attempts of learning and creating new ideas, correcting in every moment their pronunciation and creating rivalry among them.

Jelena Alekniene, Lithuania

jelenapro — 2016-06-21 10:44:20 UTC

First of all, I realized that our learning diaries help us develop our confident :-). And we can use them with your students.
It is not a secret, that it is necessary to mark each, even the smallest achievement, praise the student and thus will give him the desire to achieve even better results.

Beate Vollmer, Germany

2016-06-21 10:51:17 UTC

Teachers can weaken students' confidence and independence by underrating their capacities. If you do not believe in your pupils' talents and strengths and convey this to them, they are hopelessly at a loss and start giving only an average performance. Instilling fear in the learning process by warning them about their marks and the constant evaluation of every move in class will also be detrimental to unfold one's potential. Emotional learning is important, if you do not manage to create a caring learning environment with ample encouragement, pupils are not motivated and cannot excel. If a teacher does not show any enthusiasm in the project he runs with them, it will backfire negatively and the pupils will not even develop any curiosity about the topic. If the teacher does not have an inquisitive mind and does not boost confidence himself, pupils will do their tasks without any interest, too. If the teacher does not manage to communicate a vision, a "Yes we can" attitude, too, pupils will also not see the point in dedicating themselves to a meaningful task. If the task cannot be related to the pupils' interests, pupils will not regard it as meaningful either and will not grasp opportunities to explore it with motivation.

Sara De Santis, Italy

desanti56 — 2016-06-21 11:00:32 UTC

Sayin students “I’m looking forward to change class and not to see you any more” (sometimes it happens to hear this by teacher).

Holding monotone lectures and offer the same requests/tools to all the students, without differentiating, which is: ignore difference among students –especially Learning Specific Desturb (in Italy: DSA), or knowing the difference and doing nothing, as it’s too effert-requiring.

Remarking only their failures and mistakes, without make them learning from their failure.

Never offering them the chance to solve problems themselves.

Ines matusin, Croatia

2016-06-21 11:23:23 UTC

It is important that students see and realize why are they studying the things we are teaching them. Also it is important to to teach in democaratic style, not in autorative, so they wouldn't be afraid to ask us anything they don't understand. Teachers must collaborate with the students and vice versa, but in the same time students should respect their teachers. teacher should give their students time and space to organize their learning strategies and styles in order to become more independent.

Rosanna G - ITALY

rosannagranata1978 — 2016-06-21 11:53:30 UTC

Believing that students possess the same knowledge, skills and abilities and to plan routes for all alike, without respect to individuality of each can result in low esteem in the student.
Impose their own study method and procedures to enable employees makes pupils by the teacher.

AnnaliFe/ Italy

dseconda16 — 2016-06-21 12:25:53 UTC

Do you know The Truman Show?

There is a scene in the movie that has always impressed me a lot, since the first time: the main character, Truman, tells his teacher that would like to do the explorer "as Magellan." And the teacher replied: "It is too late. There is nothing more to explore!"

I always thought this was the best example to show how a teacher can undermine confidence and momentum of a pupil into the future.

This is a scene that I find awful, but that shows how a teacher can sometimes be an obstacle to the development of confidence and the independence of his students.

Ozgu Ozturk,Istanbul

ozguozturkk — 2016-06-21 12:30:28 UTC

If you enjoy with our students while you are teaching, then you can motive your students for anythng. If you don't , then forgive me please but you are a terrible teacher

Lina Italy

2016-06-21 12:35:46 UTC

I base my work on the team spirit, the desire to learn and joy!!

Francesca, France

LaprofOcchipinti — 2016-06-21 12:43:51 UTC

Searching for their mistakes in a written or oral exam in a foreign languages. Interrupting them for their pronounciation while they are trying to convey their opinion in a foreign language.

When we constantly focus on what is negative, students end up believing that they won't be able to succeed in any way. It's not difficult to understand: we just need to think about our own education. We all at some point in our life, met a teacher/adult who would tell us that we were not good enough. And it is extremely difficult to switch your mindset once you have been used to listening to that voice saying "no, you won't be able to do it". Most of my students have a very difficult past with English and French and it's kind of a self-defense strategy when they say "I don't get it/I don't understand (even before they found out what the activity was all about)". When you are saying: "oh you know, I've always been bad at .../ I've never been able to figure this or that out" it's like saying : well this is my identity, this is who I am because you have completely accepted a past failure as part of your personality. And by saying: "I'm not doing this, I don't want to even try " you are in fact protecting yourself from any further criticism. This is why positive assessment and positive criticism is so important. Teachers should never attack a student's integrity. This year, one of my students was so surprised that I had praised her work in class that she would not believe me, she thought I was lying (she had done an excellent work though). We, teachers, are not only working on a subject, we are always shaping minds.

2016-06-21 13:12:15 UTC

Maria João Carvalho, Portugal

carvalho1968 — 2016-06-21 13:17:40 UTC

Focusing on students' mistakes, failures and weaknesses will undermine their confidence and resilience. A negative learning environment can have a powerful impact on a child or a teenager's mind.
What a big responsibility we, teachers, have!

Alessandro Ruffino/Italy

2016-06-21 13:25:37 UTC

In my opinion, the teacher weakens his rapport with their students when he doesn't listen them and he maintains a distant relationship: I'm just your teacher. Behind each student there is a story and a good teacher must know a little of that story so he has an 'opportunity to manage better his relationship with his students and help them when they have need, above all to overcome their failures!

Vasiliki Kosmatou, Athens

2016-06-21 13:38:46 UTC

As next to us there are toxic people, the same way there are toxic learning environments. Many students are disappointed because of many continuous years of school failure or problems they face daily in their family or their learning difficulties. So they deny to participate in the educational process and have low self-esteem.
How can we practically discourage our students?

We don't recognize their skills and the improvement they have made in comparison to the past and don't make an effort to recognize themselves in the group to which they belong.
We emphasize their weaknesses.
We don't try to identify the causes of bad behavior.
We don't recognize every good work and effort trying to make them understand that failure does is a sin and no one more chance for learning.
Creating a bad team atmosphere in the classroom is an essential prerequisite for team discouragement.

Rosaria

rosaria_dec — 2016-06-21 13:45:32 UTC

Communication is the best way that can help our students to become confident. They work on their positive aspects and not on their failure.

Theano/Greece

tsouvalou — 2016-06-21 13:46:02 UTC

I am of the opinion that a teacher can weaken students' confidence by not allowing them to express themselves in the classroom.With this i mean that when there isn' t a positive educational environment, where students are praised by teacher and get feedback they feel disappointed. When there are discriminations between students, they don't feel self confidence and they don't believe in their abilities.Only in a creative environment where students feel happy can they learn without stress. What's up the role of teacher is to learn them how to learn and motivate them , prepare them for the real world

Ria Papamanoli

epapamano — 2016-06-21 13:49:06 UTC

Lavrio Greece
I think that we have to dialogue with our students and to let them to express themselves. We can respect their different skills and help them to grow up.

Alice Cabrelle /Italy

alice_cabrelle — 2016-06-21 13:54:14 UTC

Teachers have a big power and influence upon their students. We can "hold" a weapon against them (bad marks, bad reports, test falilures, school dismiss). We could literally distroy our students in many ways: focusing on failure and mistakes, focusing on weakness, focusing on disability, giving no appreciation for students'efforts, show disappointment and sadness for a bad result, saying that they are stupid and it's their fault and responsibility if they fail... the list may continue forever...

Natalia, Greece

2016-06-21 14:22:11 UTC

By making ourselves the center of our teaching, by not asking open-ended questions and demanding specific answers and by criticizing and correcting any contributions from our students.

Lucia Ferrari

luciagmferrari — 2016-06-21 14:24:23 UTC

By criticizing in public. Sometimes teachers do this without being aware. Me too, I must admit...

Nadya, Bulgaria

innovator68 — 2016-06-21 14:32:18 UTC

I big challenge for each teacher to create a classroom environment that supports students to become confident and independent learners. There are different ways to achieve it.

First of all, students have to feel confident, so we have to find their strength points to show them. Of course it is so difficult if we work as usual with 26/27 students.

Second, they have to communicate easily while they are working in pairs or small groups. It is necessary a gooddiscipline.

Next, the students have to be to cultivate a habit of independence. But always they need a framework and feedback . The feedback can encourage them to feel good at classroom.

Enrica Maragliano - Italy

2016-06-21 14:32:49 UTC

Pulling students' legs, criticising, creating a competitive climate in the classroom, prizing seldom and punishing often, nit alowing srudeness to discuss and gicing akways frontal lessons. Enough to be a very bad teacher?

Juhani Pölönen

juhani_polonen — 2016-06-21 14:37:42 UTC

If we remember our school times, we trusted our teacher. The teacher encourages and activities and the students can safely concentrate on learning.

Lucilla Raccosta, Italy

2016-06-21 14:42:37 UTC

We can weaken our student's confidence and indipendence if we don't give them the possibility to express their opinion. When a student said something wrong or not totally right, we have to start from it and change it in a possibility to grow up because students are often frightened to fail or make mistakes,. This fear is caused by a wrong way to teach and educate: teachers sometimes underline the errors in a too critical way. A good environment in order to improve students'resilience need to be based on trial and falls.

Christos Papachristodoulou, Cyprus

2016-06-21 14:42:42 UTC

I share the same ideas as Theano from Greece

"I am of the opinion that a teacher can weaken students' confidence by not allowing them to express themselves in the classroom.With this i mean that when there isn' t a positive educational environment, where students are praised by teacher and get feedback they feel disappointed. When there are discrimination's between students, they don't feel self confidence and they don't believe in their abilities.Only in a creative environment where students feel happy can they learn without stress. What's up the role of teacher is to learn them how to learn and motivate them , prepare them for the real world"

Maria Grazia - Italy

mariagraziasassu — 2016-06-21 14:45:07 UTC

I think that teachers should always set the class work starting from the real needs of each learner. Therefore should always start from the real strengths of the boys. All works should be encouraged and supported. We must not always give negative ratings, but we have to help them understand that they are able to be successful. This is possible by creating a supportive learning environment and avoiding focusing on failures. we encourage the students to build positive beliefs in their abilities; Conversely we risk weakening the confidence and independence for students.

Georgia Alexouda, Greece

alexouda — 2016-06-21 14:59:06 UTC

Underestimating, discouraging, jugding hard, insulting, ... kills independance and confidence. It is important to encourage our students, to show respect, and to believe in them. Scaffolding is necessary.

Ana Fonseca, Portugal

520anapaulafons — 2016-06-21 14:59:39 UTC

As teachers we sometimes, perhaps many times, discourage our students. By interrupting them, by asking them to answer something and if they keep silent either keep calling their name or suddenly calling someone else’s name, by not talking friendly and trying to see them as people…. So many examples that we must avoid. In my classroom I always keep in mind my students are people, human beings who deserve to be treated like that and try to encourage them to participate and make better the next time. I always tell them that I am not simply evaluating knowledge but educating them to be better people out there, in the world. I always adapt myself to the age range and to the social background of those I am working with. And this is how I try to make them feel confident and independent learners.

Bruna Rotondi, Italy

rotondi_bruna — 2016-06-21 15:01:47 UTC

Teachers can undermine student confidence and independence when they :
- provide all the "right" answers to all the "right" questions
-constantly interrupt students to correct mistakes
- don't listen to students
-don't give them time to ask questions
-dwell on their weaknesses and use sarcasm
- underestimate their students

Gandolfo Cascio

2016-06-21 15:04:24 UTC

As a teacher of school support I am working with students with special learning needs. Their level of learning is often equal to elementary school children, while having an age of 16 years! These special students in the teacher they see a very strong point of reference, this is likely to be totally dependent on the students by the teacher, and that's not good! To avoid the occurrence of dependency situations by the teacher, you can apply different teaching methods, eg. alternate
• Prompting (administering of the utmost benefit)
• Fading (progressive reduction of the aid).
Following this type of methodology, I try to avoid that the pupil depend too much on teacher, thereby giving greater security and education and social autonomy.

Caterina Fantini(Italy)

cate_67 — 2016-06-21 15:09:38 UTC

Teacher can weaken students' confident and indipendence: criticizing them in pubblic; don't listen to they; underestimating them; don't think that every student is unique and has lot of talents to offer.

Pierluigi, Italy

2016-06-21 15:29:20 UTC

Students are motivated by the situations and the learning activities that stimulate them to personally and actively involved in their learning, allowing them a personal choice and a check based on their skills and the demands of the task. In fact, the motivation of the students is stimulated if they perceive that the activities and schoolwork are directly or indirectly linked to personal interests and objectives and have appropriate levels of difficulty that will allow them to successfully carry them out. I tried to encourage cooperative learning and to realize educational activities in the forms of the lab, although I have found that students are not yet sufficiently accustomed to working in groups, both in and outside the classroom, and often show some early skepticism this approach. Skepticism that is exceeded once the working group blends and the best ones help those with greater difficulties.

Anna La Montagna, Italy

2016-06-21 15:31:05 UTC

When you are meeting for the first time new students ( I teach science, biology , microbiology , chemistry, at a high school , 14-19 years ) I dedicate the first two weeks to know them and to explain what you want to build together also listening to their demands and trying to satisfy their curiosity.  I realize when the bell sounds that I could not do everything that I wanted and students often would like to continue the lesson. Unfortunately, in Italy we are still bound to a rigid school time despite the law school autonomy now in force for fifteen years allows us to modulate different time zone. But we teachers have little desire to change because it is easier to continue as before, respecting the pre-established standards and schedules . boredom is however what I warn the students that takes them then to do anything else while we explain .

Bruna Rotondi, Italy

rotondi_bruna — 2016-06-21 15:32:57 UTC

Teachers can undermine student confidence and independence when they :
- provide all the "right" answers to all the "right" questions
-constantly interrupt students to correct mistakes
- don't listen to students
-don't give students time to ask questions
-dwell on student weaknesses and use sarcasm
- underestimate their students

Teachers can create a supportive classroom environment that boosts confidence and fosters student autonomy in many ways.Giving students opportunities to express their thoughts freely, especially when they seek help,is essential. Tools ( strategies) to develop learning are important too.Teachers

should encourage students to make their own personal contributions to lessons and praise them for their work and effort. Self-assessments help students to monitor their progress and to realise that they share the responsibility for their learning.I also think teachers should convey more positive messages when they speak- “problems” are really “challenges” or “opportunities” for further learning

Lucia, Italy

2016-06-21 15:34:55 UTC

distrust, criticize in public, make fun of questions/answers

Egle Sala, Italy

sala_egle — 2016-06-21 15:47:52 UTC

Disapproval, bias

Andrea Checchetti

dreache — 2016-06-21 15:54:23 UTC

ITALY
Often resilience has been defined as the ability to respond and adapt successfully to the effects of adversity, developing a social competence to know how to deal with conflicts.The resilient student in particular has the ability to deconstruct the adverse experiences and control the emotional reactions. PBL learning helps students develop resiliency. All activities or experiences that allow you to overcome the difficulties increase resilience.

2016-06-21 16:09:39 UTC

I think the worst things a teacher can do in order to demotivate his/her students are those of using evaluation as a sort of punishment, teachers can weaken their students when they aren't able to listen them, or when they just want to carry out the school programs without respecting the students time to learn or when they don't give themselves a challenge by adopting new strategies, when they are dissatisfied of their work and their activities bored the class .
Well, if you want to weaken your students, DON'T:
Give Positive Feedback
Set Realistic Expectations and Celebrate When They are Met
Let Your Own Excitement Come Through
Vary Your Teaching Methods
Facilitate Don’t Dominate
Make Topics Practical
Get Out of the Book
Show Students Their Own Successes

Stefania Altieri

stefaniaaltieri73 — 2016-06-21 16:12:49 UTC

Italy

Ispir Iuliana-Florentina, Romania

ispiriuliana — 2016-06-21 16:17:04 UTC

In the work that I develop trust is essential. If preschoolers would not trust educator or when he might develop. On the contrary would increase timid or permanently irritated. I worked with children with various mental problems who at first were violent or isolated. After three years of activity have largely improved the behavioral and socializing with peers. The activity group is praised in such moments. This is my reflection.

Carmelo S. Benfante Picogna, Italy

salben — 2016-06-21 16:22:52 UTC

The first rule for a teacher is to appear as he is. That is, we have to practice rather than preach and give our example to our students. It must be consistent in the manner and behavior with what we say and teach. The classroom environment is critical to be able to develop social skills and these are slowly acquiring by sharing time, space, perceptions and feelings. Indeed, we know that the relational component is very important for a meaningful learning. I try to create these conditions by practicing active listening towards my students and stimulating their narration. Time by time, I draw inspiration from a fact to customize it, and discuss how each of us would have behaved in a similar situation. In this way each one expresses his/her points of view while talking about a situation that apparently did not belong to us. So, however, it understands other’s points of view, their feelings and we identify ourselves with the others

Chiara Marchesi-Italy

pippicalzelunghe91 — 2016-06-21 16:25:27 UTC

The worst thing a teacher can do is to discourage a student, saying "you can't do it" "it's pointless for you to continue" because if they believe in their abilities they can do everything. Of course a bad example given by the teacher is not good too. Another bad thing is to compare one student to another, it will create a conflict between them and the weaker student will feel terrible and probably he won't try again doing something.

Nuno Proença. Portugal

profnunoproenca — 2016-06-21 16:31:59 UTC

This one is easy. When providing feedback to a student focus on the student's performance instead of focusing on the task itself. You're half way into destroying their self confidence and resilience. Here's an example: Say "You did it wrong" instead of "the result is incorrect". Got it? It's a disaster..

Kristina Kaučić, Croatia

2016-06-21 16:34:52 UTC

If we discourage our students, do not trust them, focus on failures rather then on success. If we do not give them positive feedback, criticize them in public or underrating their capacities.

Luig Alterani, Italy

Italianteacher — 2016-06-21 16:35:56 UTC

As teachers we can weaken our student's confidence and independence:

when we do not start from the real educational needs of our students, expecting from them what they can not do at a given moment of their school life

when we are not able to establish a dialogue with them

when we do not treat them, first of all as individuals, before considering them students

when we do not give them, whatever their age could be, the respect we as teachers demand from them

when we emphasize their failures without giving them a chance to recover e

Gianluca Marano, Italy

Gianluca_Marano — 2016-06-21 16:46:18 UTC

A teacher weakens the student when the freedom of choice of what they want to learn, when it restricts his passion, when fogs his creativity. the learning step for a student, you have only if you generate satisfaction and pleasure for what you are doing.

Giuseppina Serini, Italy

prof_g_serini — 2016-06-21 16:48:30 UTC

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
― Albert Einstein

I always try to make it clear to my students that they must not give up, they have to start taking into account the mistakes made earlier. I help them to focus them, discussing with them the verification tests. Then they have other exercises dealing with the same subject, and ask them to hold the next previously done evil to better focus errors and their correction. I try to encourage them and make them understand that they always have the opportunity to be able to cope with the failures, and that behind a difficulty there is always a new opportunity.

Gülden,Turkey

guldenbayrak1984 — 2016-06-21 16:56:26 UTC

when we feel ourselves as the owner of teaching and learning process,and when we focus on the results of the examinations and tests only,our students are discouraged and feel broken.They lose their self esteem and never feel like the center of teaching process.Our behavior as teachers is one of the key factors of their attendance,indepence and as I learned in this module resilience.We need to change the things and pbl is here with a huge amount of new ideas and techniques

Angela Gordino, Portugal

angelagordino — 2016-06-21 16:56:37 UTC

Teachers often weaken student's confidence and independence, and criical thinking just by not listening to their needs and expectations. If you only think that the problem of not learning what you want students to learn is the student that doesn´t study, that doesn´t try hard enough, that isn´t paying attention to wha you are saying, then you , as a teacher, are doing it wrong. The teacher has the responsability in finding a way to make students get engaged in learning activities, by changing methodologies that create motivation, satisfaction, success and giving the students the tools to get their. PBL is a way to do it!

Agita Ozoliņa, Latvia

2016-06-21 17:03:06 UTC

I share the same ideas as Theano from Greece and Christos from Cyprus

"I am of the opinion that a teacher can weaken students' confidence by not allowing them to express themselves in the classroom. With this I mean that when there isn't a positive educational environment, where students are praised by teacher and get feedback they feel disappointed. When there are discrimination's between students, they don't feel self-confidence and they don't believe in their abilities. Only in a creative environment where students feel happy can they learn without stress. What's up the role of teacher is to teach them how to learn and motivate them, prepare them for the real world"

We can weaken our student's confidence and independence if we don't give them the possibility to express their opinion. When a student said something wrong or not totally right, we have to start from it and change it in a possibility to grow up 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 in any way. This is why positive assessment and positive criticism is so important. Teachers should never attack a student's integrity.

I usually try to be friendly, it’s better to say- a friend, with my students. I am still a teacher but we do everything together, we decide about assessment time, tests, I see when they are very tired and so on.

There is just one thing- be always yourself!

Giada, Italy

mitiga90 — 2016-06-21 17:06:04 UTC

Even if I'm still a student, I think that a very bad way to weaken student's confidence and independence regards oral presentation. I'm very shy (I admit it!) and I do prefer to make a project with my peers and then present it to the the class, instead of making it by my on. In this way, (we) students have a great opportunity to collaborate with each other and I'm sure that the final project will be sooo good!

elena italia

emaccari — 2016-06-21 17:14:01 UTC

I think as adults (parents or teachers or educators...) we can weaken young people's seld confiance when we dont smile to them, whn we never ask them "how was your day?" when we notice just their mistakes and not their successes when we tell them "I will do that for you because youa re not to able..or because you are too slow..."

Ljubica Ruzhinska, Macedonia

rljubica_78 — 2016-06-21 17:16:28 UTC

Here are few things a teacher can do if she/he wants to weaken the student's confidence and independence:

have 'impossible' expectations for the students. While high expectations are motivating for students to succeed, having impossible or unrealistic expectations can be weaken student's confidence;
focus on failure and negative behaviors;
criticize more of the time and give praise rarely;
'don't practice what you preach' - don't teach by example;
have 'double' standards.

Vali Pavel,Romania

2016-06-21 17:39:45 UTC

A teacher must think positive at class, even if his heart can be ill of the evill that surround us. A student is a soul to be kept in the classroom. If the teacher seems bored and he shows that he doesn't like his job, the kid will feel the same: he won't like to learn from a bored adult. Yje student sees in the teacher's eyes if he is important for the class, for the group/team. A kid works with his mind if he likes the teaching. If not, the teacher would't be able to poor knowledge and life's values in a locked soul of a child.

Višnja Vasiljević

nastavnicavisnja — 2016-06-21 18:03:09 UTC

We can weaken our students confidence and independence by saying: You will never get it!, How could you ever think of such a stupid thing!, You have no chance of getting a better mark!, Can you not do it like Ann does it! When will you remember this?...... If we do not think about a specific class, but about our plan, and we set unappropriate goals and tasks. When we are not flexible, do not listen to students, or let some students take charge of the class...

Maria Teresa/ Italy

teresarughi — 2016-06-21 18:10:53 UTC

We often weaken our students' confidence. For example while students are speaking in the foreign language, we tend to correct any single mistake, so discouraging their communicative aim.Much better to take notes of the mistakes silently and at the end of the performance ask the other students if they are able to correct any of their mate's mistakes.

Marija Huzjak-Saban, Croatia

mhsaban — 2016-06-21 18:12:18 UTC

Like in life in general we must be positive in the classroom. If we are negative, if we always look for mistakes and bad things and emphasize them, it makes very bad atmosphere in the classroom. Students are unhappy and they feel frustrated and scared. That’s not good environment for learning. If we remember students’ mistakes it makes them unsure of themselves. It destroys their self confidence and that is not what we want from them. If we ask them to do the tasks above their capabilities, it leads to their dissatisfaction and yours as well. If we give the same tasks and expect the same results it’s not fair. We should approach our students as the individuals with their specific abilities and problems.

Ilaria/ Italy

2016-06-21 18:15:39 UTC

I would add only this to your reflections : making comparisons with brilliant students or...most hateful...with elder brothers/sisters ...brilliant students!

Massimo Soranzio, Italy

massimosoranzio — 2016-06-21 18:26:11 UTC

This year I was happy to see a student of mine with a learning disability gain motivation and confidence. But I found it difficult to make some colleagues understand how useless it was for them to expect him to distinguish and classify grammatical functions, or explain why he had (correctly) translated a Latin text that way... Of course, making students affected by learning disabilities lose confidence is rather easy, and teachers who are not prepared to deal with such cases often do so without even realising it. But the "best" way to be counterproductive with students with regard to confidence is by giving them the idea (one must be very careful: sometimes your face is more eloquent than your words) that you don't trust them (this can relate to abilities, behaviour, whatever.)

Lucia.Italy

luciacaccioppoli — 2016-06-21 18:27:26 UTC

It usually happens that we weaken our students' confidence when we mark their performance according to a grid,we make them notice the mistakes I know that it isn't the right thing to do but it's part of our work.the worst in my opinion.Of course we should try to make students aware of their level but at the same time encourage them to do better and try again.Even when they have serious learning difficulties we should try to choose activities suitable to their level in order to facilitate success and praise them for the results.Classes are made up of heterogeneous groups!

Teodora Buică, Romania

2016-06-21 18:35:29 UTC

I think it is difficult to work with students unmotivated for learning. It is also difficult to make them all working even in groups. The tips are welcome but Iwant some exemples

Cristina, Italy

tata_pandina — 2016-06-21 18:38:09 UTC

I think that the best way to weak my student's confidence and independence is to enhance their mistakes more than their goals and to make them understand that their contribute is unnecessary for the work of the group.

2016-06-21 18:54:09 UTC

Piera Italia
It's years that I say that we are born with the Joy of Learning, but many students lose it some where or some how. Even a bad glance can block a student and make him or her hate the subjects. Everybody can do anything such as I am not good at should not exist!

Kourtidou Sofia,Greece

kurtidusof — 2016-06-21 19:05:31 UTC

A teacher non supporting who always reprimands his pupils causes negative environment and becomes an example for poor imitation.

Diana Rossato, Italy

2016-06-21 19:07:43 UTC

Sometimes it is easier to see the glass"as half empty than as half full". So It is a bad habit to stress our students' negative results than make them reflect on the positive steps made.

Martha Karvounidou/Greece

2016-06-21 19:34:27 UTC

Sometimes I was angry with bad behavior of my students and I made a conversation with them about it. May be I have to find another way.

Florentina Iofciu, Romania

2016-06-21 19:36:15 UTC

Too much guiding from us, as teachers make students dependent of us! It's important to encourage students while they are doing a task, to be positive and bold!

Efi Douloumi, Greece

douloumi — 2016-06-21 19:50:59 UTC

I saw the above video and I make notes of all the tips in my learning diary. I was aware of many of them but from now on I will try more. Unfurtunatelly sometimes I forget and critisize students in front of the class.

Dimitra Kouskoumpekou

dimitrakous — 2016-06-21 20:27:31 UTC

I think the picture speaks for itself

Elena Pezzi / Italy

elenapezzi — 2016-06-21 20:51:27 UTC

You're a perfect loser ...
You won't reach anything if you keep on acting like this...
Look at XY: HE is brilliant, intelligent, smart ... well, your opposite...
Haw can you keep on making such horrible mistakes after all my explanations???
Trying to make you understand this is a waste of time (my time...)
Ah ah ah ... that's it ... another silly answer ... please, connect your brain with your tongue before speaking...

(It is not science fiction, we all know that these are real "classroom sentences")

Catello de Sinno -ITALY

2016-06-21 20:54:45 UTC

I try not to be with my students as my teachers were with me: extremely strict and reluctant to dialogue. I still remember how humiliating it was getting a low grade and the teacher just saying in front of my classmates and with a tone of disdain that it was all my fault because I had not studied enough. Evaluation is a critical moment when the teacher shouldn't stress the bad results instead of encouraging and helping to do better. I usually involve weaker students in tasks that make them feel important and necessary to the final goal.

Rosa Gaspar

luisasgaspar67 — 2016-06-21 20:58:08 UTC

We now know that we are motivated as much by our aspirations and sense of self-efficacy ..... constant praise that weakens the student's resolve in mastering difficult tasks ... We must encourage the students all the time.

when we have pre-fixed answers to our questions and ignore answers that we haven't thought of

chrysuniki — 2016-06-21 21:03:21 UTC

Niki Greec

Monica Giansanti

monicagiansanti — 2016-06-21 21:17:27 UTC

What else can I add?

Tomislav Tomić

2016-06-21 21:25:41 UTC

It is enough to tell students that they can't do something. To critisize them more than praise them...

AnnaDrakotou, Greece

anna_drakotu — 2016-06-21 21:36:15 UTC

Critisizing them in public and stressing their mistakes ; not paying attention or focusing on what they say, being absent; being impolite, ironical and sarcastic , to mention but a few!

Angelamaria Galderisi - Ital

2016-06-21 21:43:48 UTC

3.2 Student Resilience - Reverse Brainstorming
Teachers have got a great responsibility when facing students’ results and outcomes. We as teachers should avoid too much criticism, that can weaken our students’ confidence and independence, and use constructive critics. When students fail a task, the teacher is failing with them, so we have to revise our teaching method and ask ourselves : what can I do to improve my students’ learning and knowledge? How can I involve my students in the teaching learning activities I have organized? How can I really motivate them?

A good PBL can help teachers solve these problems and answer these questions, too.

A great class environment that supports students to become confident and independent learners could be a flipped classroom, where students are asked to “prepare a lesson” about a topic at home. They can read texts or watch videos about it , and have to refer about their researches and studies in the classroom. So pupils become teachers of themselves and collaborate with the teacher and their peers to develop knowledge and learning.

Cecilia (Italy)

2016-06-21 21:48:41 UTC

Teachers can weaken our student's confidence and independence when they shout against them. It's important to maintain a good and relaxing anviroment. Furthermore, I think teachers should listen to their students more and not stress their mistakes.

Lorenza, Italy

pini — 2016-06-21 22:19:38 UTC

Teachers can weaken student's confidence and independence ... but also they can create a classroom environment that supports students to become confident and independent learners: the experience of a teacher

Sérgio Leal, Portugal

sergioleal — 2016-06-21 22:24:19 UTC

Task 3.2 - Developing Student Resilience
In the image below lack a red "X", but, is a
wrong answer or a creative student?

Helena Serdoura | PORTUGAL

2016-06-21 23:17:26 UTC

Not much to add to the Reverse Brainstorming regarding ways teachers can weaken Ss confidence and self-esteem.
I prefer to share 8 great tips we can implemente in our classes in order to provide a resiliente friendly environment (@

Marija Fridl, Croatia

2016-06-22 00:37:37 UTC

When we focus only on "stronger" students and neglect those "weaker" ones, when we stick to the strict evaluation rules where the "right answers" are only those literally reproducted informations

Fabio from Costa Rica

2016-06-22 04:41:03 UTC

We can weaken our student’s confidence if we do not create opportunities for learning. I mean, if we keep on correcting and paraphrasing everything our students say, instead of creating a space for analysis and reflection, learners will lose their motivation to participate in the class.

Pura Vida!

Elnette Lucas, France

elnettelucas — 2016-06-22 06:22:19 UTC

I think that evaluations based solely on test papers and scores is a typical way of breaking the confidence of students who may be improving but have difficulties in some areas.

Boštjan Papež - Sloveni

2016-06-22 07:51:44 UTC

We can achieve that by giving students no voice are control over the process of learning, Don't allow them to seek answers for themselves and track their progress with grades.

Despoina, Greece

2016-06-22 08:09:31 UTC

i agree that when the evaluation is done with papers and tests we weaken their confidence.

Ivana, Italia

ivanalocicero80 — 2016-06-22 08:24:05 UTC

we weaken our students when: transmit knowledge only through the inductive method , when we give them delivered ( tests , exercises , homework ) a lot structured , when we do not think  them, when we talk only we and not them , when we rebuke them constantly , when we highlight their errors and not their successes .

Floripes Almeida, Porutgal

floripes_almeida — 2016-06-22 08:27:18 UTC

Resilience is the ability to confront obstacles. When we face an obstacle and we fail, we look at our failures and mistakes as lessons to be learned from, and as opportunities for growth.

Usually, resilient students are cooperative and helpful, optimistic and energetic, inquisitive and attentive; they are on task and participate more in the classroom. This is the reason why social and emotional learning plays a key role in children's academic success.

As teachers, we can often weaken our student’s confidence and independence. When we are studying some topic and a student wants to read or present something related to that topic, sometimes we hear ourselves saying: «Sorry! We haven’t got time!» Students should be given all the time if they have the initiative to bring something different to the class, related to the topic they are studying.

Interesting article here!

Michaël / France

mickmasson — 2016-06-22 08:35:14 UTC

Every year, I meet parents who tell me about their chidren' problems at school. Very often the discussion turns to stomachaches, headaches and tears when it time to go to school. The kids most of the time solve their learning problems by their own just because I try to create an environment that brings them self-confidence.

Arjana, Croatia

MsBlazic — 2016-06-22 08:38:39 UTC

I'd like to share my experience about weakening teacher resilience: When I first started teaching (long, long time ago) the headteacher showed me round the school. We would stop at the doors of some classrooms just to hear what was going on inside. We could hear absolutely nothing, just silence. So the headteacher told me: "These are good teachers, they know how to maintain discipline in the classroom." This stuck with me for years to come. And made me feel uncomfortable and uneasy because I've never managed to maintain total silence in my classroom. What's more, whenever my students would quiet down, I'd feel somehow alarmed and I'd always ask them what was going on. After many many years of teaching and researching how students learn best, I finally feel at ease in my classroom knowing that noise doesn't mean that no learning is taking place in the classroom. Quite to the contrary, I know that my students are actively engaged in their learning. Noise is welcome in my classroom (chaos isn't :-).

Todor, Bulgaria

teo_simeonov — 2016-06-22 08:49:15 UTC

I am amazed when collegues give labels to the students: "He is a weak student"; "She is just stupid"; "She is as dumb as her mom was"; ... That were some of the comments that I have heard during my first year, while I was working as a substitude teacher. It was even more shocking to learn that these are not in-between-teachers talks, but they actually address the students that way! Who would feel confident and good about him/herself after being subjected daily to such a brainwashing?!

Éva Pató Szebényi, Hungary

2016-06-22 09:32:00 UTC

For me it was NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) that really helped to provide a positive environment in class for my students. Plus my positive attitude to learning and with me own example I inspire them to find their own strength. If you do not show that you are interested their progress and if you do not praise them at all, that weaken their confidence. I wish all my colleagues could use skills to make students to believe in themselves.

Mariangela Bielli-Italy

2016-06-22 09:33:44 UTC

It is quite easy to weaken students’ confidence.. for example telling them they failed without even a word to show you care.

It is important not just what you say but how you say it. We can tell students they have failed or we can tell them they must do better and help them find out how.

Our attitude is crucial because they feel if we are challenging them to do better or if we are just taking it for granted.

Help them develop a growth mindset and practise failure (whatever the results you’ll have gained something) is the best way to support students to become independent learners.

Eliana Siaili, Cyprus

2016-06-22 09:44:01 UTC

I hate to admit it but there are times that what I do in my teaching practice can cause this. Even if I consciously try to have always in my mind that each and every student should have opportunities in each and every lesson to succeed, I know that there are lessons that this doesn't happen. My class contains students of mixed abilities, so I have to teach small aged children with different learning styles and different learning speeds. This is very challenging for me and I think PBL maybe an approach that will help every student to feel successful and motivated in the classroom environment. Definitely, traditional instruction and traditional ways of testing are not the answer. Group work instead of individual struggling maybe can help students to speak their voice and contribute to each other thinking and learning.

Dhurata Myrtollari Albania

2016-06-22 09:55:07 UTC

Do motivation, irony, lack of communication, tone of voice high, etc.
I think that the teacher unable adversely affects the student.
Teachers who do not want the teaching profession, should be removed from education!

Carla Gonçalves, Portugal

litalzn — 2016-06-22 10:14:04 UTC

Unfortunately I recognize that sometimes I have many difficulties creating an environment of this type. I have classes where students have between 16 and 25 years old and, as such, the skills, behaviors, objectives, knowledge are very different.
Gradually I have tried to assign different tasks according to the competences and objectives of each one. The use of ICT has helped me a lot in this differentiation and students' confidence has improved, mainly because they are committed to showing what they can do with it.

Ausenda/Portugal

conceicao1964 — 2016-06-22 10:15:35 UTC

Sometimes is very dificult to make the students pay attention to what we want to teach. Today there a great number of students that dont pay attention to anything we say or do. There is lots of indiscipline even at primary schooll.
WE do all the job the family job and the school job simultaneously. But we never give up we need to reach each and every student to feel that we done all we manage to do.

Caterina Falanga, Italy

2016-06-22 10:29:12 UTC

Often we send wrong messages to students, especially in the time of valuation. First of all we should make it clear that evaluating the performance related to a learning path and does not evaluate the person ever. Students need to know that we have always our appreciation for their value, not only for the skills and proven skills, but for what they are: for all those skills, even the hidden skills, they do not know they have, but through the learning path will discover that you have and learn to use.
Very important it is to work on the proximal learning area.

Osman Keskin, Turkey

lovelyosman — 2016-06-22 10:45:37 UTC

İ think first they must feel free during learning process.
After having a good guided learn to learn process. They will be confident and independent learners.

Maria Teresa Asprella Libonati-Italy

mariateresa_as1 — 2016-06-22 11:01:45 UTC

We, as teachers, can weaken our students' confidence and independence when:
we give them negative feedback without explaining how to overcome the obstacle;
we create a competitive climate in class instead of encouraging collaboration;
we give pupils tasks too difficult to do;
we do understand that we do not trust them;
we praise the good students and publicly we scold those less talented

Luigi Grifone, Italy

2016-06-22 11:04:08 UTC

The best way to weaken student's confidence and independence is giving them negative feedback, repressing their freedom of thought, imposing our authority over them and avoiding to listen their voice

Margarida Sotana, Portugal

2016-06-22 11:22:50 UTC

Teachers can weaken students’ confidence and independence in several ways. For instance if they give negative feedback, if they humiliate the students when they give wrong answers, if they establish a very rigid environment in the classes, if they don’t let the students participate or express their opinions, if they didn’t recognize students’ efforts or if they made negative comparisons between students…

Michelle Griffin, Ireland

2016-06-22 11:28:41 UTC

We weaken our student's confidence when we discourage their ideas and we knock them down. We weaken their independence by trying to be too controlling over their learning. If a students hasn't achieved the learning goal we set them, it can cause us to become annoyed and we put the student down for not achieving the goal. We always praise the kids who are successful but we should also praise the students who make the effort to be successful.

Orla, Ireland

shmurla_orla — 2016-06-22 12:42:34 UTC

We weaken our students' confidence when we control their leaning, or tell them the way they have to do things, that they are doing it wrong. Simple things like correcting in red pen-Red is a colour associated with danger and wrong, we should choose our works and colours wisely as they have a negative impact.

Nathalie Scerri, Malta

nathaliescerri — 2016-06-22 12:45:09 UTC

Teachers destroy the students' independence and confidence whenever they treat them in a negative way, ignore their ideas and discourage their motivations and attitudes. Our students need to be continuously encouraged in a positive way, even if they themselves perceive an activity as a failure. I personally congratulate them in any improvement they show. Students need to be engaged and challenged for their independence to develop. Teachers need to acknowledge all students' contributions positively, encourage learning from mistakes and welcome wrong answers as the takeoff to new understandings.

Alessandra Bergami, Italy

bergami_alessandra — 2016-06-22 12:52:43 UTC

The greatest hindrance to the development of confidence in our student is the teacher's ANXIETY: being anxious about our students' performance is a clear message that we do not trust them and it often leads u to do all the work, in order to show that everything is alright, robbing the students of the opportunity to make mistakes and learn from them.

Anne-Sophie, France

annesophie_compiegne — 2016-06-22 13:11:51 UTC

A teacher can easily destroy a student's confidence with any critical remark but I think that we are also in our classroom to point out what is right and what is wrong. As far as I am concerned, my students have a low level in English because they aren't motivated by the subject. They are teenagers and without being negative with them it's sometimes difficult to tackle with people who aren't eager to learn or who just don't care. Critical remarks can also help them grow up and think about their future. Critical remarks don't always destro the students' self confidence or motivatioin.

Aleksandar,Serbia

aleksandars018 — 2016-06-22 13:13:26 UTC

The teacher used to be "children pat on the shoulder", "give them wind in the back" ... Be sure to show them or find a common path of failure. Point out the good things...

Elena FP, Italy

2016-06-22 13:27:04 UTC

Probably, the traditional frontal lesson and most teacher-centred activities lead to a weak independence among students: sort of a "I (the teacher) own the truth and I'm benevolent enough to pass you my knowledge" attitude... Teacher talks, students listens/writes-that's all. Students have a totally passive role, they are there just to 'receive' something given from a 'higher authority'.

Maria Louvari, Greece

marialouvari — 2016-06-22 13:27:48 UTC

I agree with Maria Lucia Savino

I think that a teacher could weaken students' motivation by criticizing their attempts of learning and creating new ideas, correcting their pronunciation every single time and creating rivalry among them.
This shows that we don't really believe in them and we chop their wings off.

Isolina, Spain

2016-06-22 13:29:49 UTC

In my opinion, we can weaken our student´s confidence when we don´t believe in them, when we don´t let them feel as the main actors in their learning. For me, the perfect environment to allow students become confident and independent, is an space where we take into account the multiple intelligences of every child. We don´t have to pay attentio only to our way of teaching but also, to the classroom environment, such as desks arrangement, spaces. School space should be flexible to be able to adapt to the educational needs and to offer different perspectives.

Claudia Massaregli (Italy)

claudia_massaregli — 2016-06-22 13:36:18 UTC

Every time we replace our students in solving problems are preventing them to develop skills.

Antonio, Italy

professorelacavera — 2016-06-22 13:43:27 UTC

I think one of the biggest flaws of a teacher is to give up, to surrender and never wonder if the real problem is in the way he teaches rather than in the way he wants students repeat.

Maria Veropalumbo (Iyaly)

2016-06-22 13:45:42 UTC

As a teacher I can weaken my students confidence and independence very often and unfortunately we do it when:

we are not able to establish a relation with them

we do not consider the students as real people, each of them with different educational needs, expecting from them in the time established by us what they can not do at a given moment of their school life

we emphasize their mistakes and their failures without giving them a chance to recover

we make students feel discouraged an

Stella Lamprianou Greece

stellala — 2016-06-22 13:45:55 UTC

If we are very strict, if we ask or expect too much, if we always look disappointed and

Giusi Veca, Italy

giusiveca — 2016-06-22 13:54:52 UTC

I think we weaken the trust of our students if we make them feel inadequate to the task. First we must sympathize with their ability the difficulty of the assigned tasks. Then we have to support them and never demonize the error. Also we must not give the impression of being infallible as teachers, but to say that we learn through hard work and commitment and everyone makes mistakes. But you must never get discouraged and persist in the task. I also think that the arguments and activities should be interesting for the students to give them the motivation to learn. But I hate, hate, hate to grade in the report card!

Ahmet düzen-turkey

ahmetduzen20011 — 2016-06-22 13:56:48 UTC

we have to encourage the students for independence

Marianthi Arvanitidou - greece

1canislupus22 — 2016-06-22 14:10:36 UTC

I think the most huge problem is to want to get in each other's position . I think what I would do if I were him.

Maria Vincenza Giglio, Italy

mariavincenzagiglio — 2016-06-22 14:20:51 UTC

Teacher can weaken our student's confidence and independence:
He humiliates them every time that they are wrong ;
He teaches without transmitting passion ;
creates a competition environment .

Leonor Vale (Portugal)

2016-06-22 14:25:21 UTC

We can weaken student's confidence and independence by focusing only on the negative aspects of the students work, by humiliating the student in the classroom and by speaking with him in an aggressive way.

Cinzia Masia, Italy

attasonitabas — 2016-06-22 14:35:47 UTC

Personally, I believe that students need to be supported by us from the beginning of each school year. Before starting our school programme, we should try to create a positive atmosphere among us trying to know their knowledge,abilities, competences but also their needs

Carmen Cassarino, Italy

carmencassarino — 2016-06-22 14:39:05 UTC

How can we as teachers weaken our student's confidence and independence ?

Simply by judging him/her as a person instead of evaluating his/her activity or thinking of himself as stupid, a student who "doesn't understand anything ". Their independence, instead, is weakened when the teacher talks too much during the lesson or when he just says the tudents to do something without sharing the why and the how with them. Even the perfect product the students work out, it seems to be for the teacher's sake ( and for the mark) .

Maria Anagnostidou Greece

2016-06-22 14:42:51 UTC

Teachers can weaken students’ confidence by negative comments, lack of interest for the student as a person and by having too high expectations. Every time a teacher gives the right answer without giving time to students to answer it, he/she holds them back from being independent learners.

Ingrida

2016-06-22 14:55:04 UTC

Negative approach, focusing on failure, too active and "visible" teacher, unengaging way of teaching and bad choise of material, not letting students to enjoy collaborative learning - these can weaken students' confidence and independence for sure.

IDA/ITALY We can weaken students’confidence and indipendent when-we give them strong and accurate instructions on what they have to do without possibility to think about any change or personal consideration. - say in private that they did a good job but then in plubblic discredit their work and above all their person and personality. -we can give them a task and then say they are wrong the task.

idadinatale — 2016-06-22 15:08:05 UTC

Jessica Bruini, Italy

bruinijessica — 2016-06-22 15:28:42 UTC

I think it is very easy to weaken our students confidence! I do so very often, not on purpose of course... but I do. For example when I give them too easy tasks, because they have some kind of learning difficulties, so I don't want them to face a negative performance... or when they tell me they couldn't accomplish a task, I reproach them because they didn't try to find their way out...
As long as I will focus on my requirements as a teacher and not on theirs as students, it will always happen.
I am quite aware of it...but still I make mistakes :(

Valeriu Iovan, Craiova, România

2016-06-22 15:41:55 UTC

Self-reliance is based on confirmation of their values, not on the compliments continues for anything. If the student has the appropriate baggage of knowledge and methods, means and strategies of solving intellectual's statements are always regarded with interest, even if they seem disconnected from reality.

Jessica, Italy

bb_jess — 2016-06-22 15:49:44 UTC

We weaken students' confidence and indipendence not giving them the opportunity to understand completely what they're learning, and the reasons to learn it (on my subject they learn by memory also the grammar rules = they don't know then how to apply them and they're not able to identify them on a text).

Ingrid, Spain

ingridmariegall — 2016-06-22 16:11:06 UTC

Teachers can weaken their student's confidence and Independence when they are not given the opportunity to apply their knowledge or when you do not lead them giving the meaning of the learning and its usefulness.

Filomeni, Greece

2016-06-22 16:11:24 UTC

It's really easy to weaken students' confidence :
-always shout when they make mistakes
-never give them the chance or time to talk
-always provide the correct answers
-never praise them
-criticise them in public
-tell them they're not worth a penny
-be a negative example by showing you're bored and want to finish quickly
Do you want more?

Federica Lustrissimi, Italy

federicalustrissimi — 2016-06-23 06:18:45 UTC

In my experience, help a student to become more confident and independent is a challenge very important and difficult in this historical moment, when the others educational institutions encounter many difficulties to engage students. In my professional life, I met many pupils that were alloof towards the school, and I tried to do something that could seem contradictory: I give them a few of firm laws, that they have to absolutely respect and also I offer a lot of interesting activities. Furthermore, I saw that if a pupil is believed to be “a difficult student” from the teachers , and so he will consider himself, and this is the very important gamble: to persuade the student that he can be different. If you show him that you believe really in his talents, he will believe in himself!

OlgaKeramida/Greece

olkeramida — 2016-06-23 06:41:08 UTC

If we think how our teachers (many years ago) treated us and how we felt about it then we realize that we must change and let kids learn from mistakes. This must be our moto even if we are parents to our kids.

Giovanna Wiplinger Croce

giovywip — 2016-06-23 07:14:58 UTC

In my opinion it's very easy to weaken students' confidence: by not encouraging them in their learning process, by ignoring their achievement and not recognize them and so don't praise them and recognize their efforts even worse by remarking their failure now and then and in front of everybody..but most of all by not trusting in their success: words, gesture and attitude can speak more loudly than any negative remark. If we act the opposite way of what I have just said then we give the opportunity to students to became their real self full of confidence and self esteem! May we always act that way

Daniela, Italy

2016-06-23 08:34:19 UTC

Focussing on failure, bad/negative approach to the topic of the day and publicly criticizing are the 'best' ways to get a student stuck in a bad mood or even denial of the subject.

Artashes Torosyan, Armenia

2016-06-23 08:34:31 UTC

Usually we weaken our student's confidence and independence of our students by giving them closed questions, conduct discussions, stifle initiatives.

Sara Carli

2016-06-23 08:40:27 UTC

Antonella

profsardini — 2016-06-23 08:43:02 UTC

Teachers can easily weaken the students' confidence and independence, when we don't give them time to talk, when our lessons are teacher-centered, when we correct every single mistake while they're speaking, when we never let them work in groups, when we are not enthusiastic about what we are doing.

Spiros Spiris, Greece

2016-06-23 08:49:20 UTC

Unfortunately there are many ways with which we as teachers can weaken our students’ confidence and independence. One way is to focus on students’ failure and negative behavior, and criticize them publicly. Another way is to assign them difficult and boring tasks to do. Finally, we can forbid them to think outside the box. We should insist that they follow traditional ways of learning. Obviously, doing the opposite will help develop student’s resilience and strengthen their confidence and independence.

Teresa Cordeiro, Portugal

2016-06-23 09:24:11 UTC

We can weaken their confidence and independence by giving them uninteresting tasks that are not relevant and meaningful for them, among others. To have more success in being confident and independent we have to give meaning to the activities promoted, reward their strengths, use activities according to their interests, encourage them to be curious and seek for knowledge everywhere because we can learn from all sources, etc

Carmelina Italia

carmelina_enrico — 2016-06-23 09:28:07 UTC

Reverse brainstormin

how we as teachers can weaken our student's confidence and independence.

v Don’t build from strenghts

v Do not praise enough

v Criticize, criticize, criticize…

v Starting from activities that students like little

v Put emphasis on the limitations and weaknesses

v Do not give new chances to pupils in difficulty

v Keep the students always need our support

v Blocking their creativity with too many stakes

v Don’t encourage students to help each other

Vassiliki Yiannou, Greece

2gelevosmou_logos — 2016-06-23 09:35:59 UTC

- Be angry at them.
-Always focused on their bad behaviour.
-Humiliate them in front of the others.
-Never encourage them.
-Put so much homework.
-Never smile at them.
-Sending them out of the class.

Isabella Savella - Ital

2016-06-23 09:52:47 UTC

Telling them that they are not able to do anything!

Sara (Italy)

saraonga — 2016-06-23 10:09:59 UTC

- Never give them feedback
- Focus only on the negative aspects of their performance
- Give them extra work to punish a bad behaviour
- nevr give them a second chance
-never show them the relevance of what they are doing

Jovita: Lithuania

jovita_michnioviene — 2016-06-23 10:32:30 UTC

In my opinion, teachers can weaken students confidence when they do not trust them, do not believe in them, focussing just on students failures, teach them with old methods believing that they too weak to understand and cope with new ones, never encourage them, paying attention just on their formal work or believe that their are the "gods".

Margarida Pato

margarida_pato — 2016-06-23 10:43:53 UTC

Well, we can criticise them all the time, we can give them only a few seconds to answer our questions and then answer them ourselves ( I do that sometimes :( ), we can correct every single mistake whenever they speak, we can be in charge all the time,... There are so many ways in which we may demotivate students! And once that happens, it will be very hard to win them back!

Roberta Signorin

r_signorino — 2016-06-23 11:00:32 UTC

Recipe for weakening students' confidence and independence:
10 lb public criticism
3 lb dark sarcasm
5 lb of not giving them any credit
10 tbsp of not acknowledging their talents
5 cups of teacher-centred lessons
a generous sprinkle of boredom and anger
Enjoy your meal, but don't complain if you get stomachache :)

Serenella Silenzi Italy

2016-06-23 12:31:39 UTC

If we don't RESPECT our student, they will always refuse the subject and the teacher, too.
There are a lot of different forms of disrespect: correcting students continuously, blaming them, offending, excluding, assigning them frustrating tasks, giving them very negative marks, talking about their weaknesses in public meetings, use rude words/phrases, be nervous/impatient, always in a hurry.
On the contrary we should say:

Silvio Giaffredo (Italy)

silvioilvecchio — 2016-06-23 12:44:06 UTC

You are not following me, boys and girls: are you still sleeping?
This is so easy, that you can solve it by yourselves [but it's not!]
Don't ask anything: just copy from the blackboard, study at home and learn it by heart for tomorrow.
------
I tried to put few example of weakening approaches. I have to say that also in this situation, one could develop their resilience: also struggle the rigidity of the previous generation is a [brute] way to grow up.

Gaia, Italy

gaialombardi69 — 2016-06-23 13:35:48 UTC

There are so many ways to weaken our students' confidence and selfesteem... Indifference, criticism, underestimation... Students understand our feelings and our intentions more than our words.

Armando Pisani (Italy)

2016-06-23 14:38:57 UTC

I think that the worst mistake we teachers can make is to consider a negative outcome from a test/assignment as a judgement concerning the person not the performance. This is a very bad way we can deny the respect to our students

Nicoletta, Italy

2016-06-23 14:39:12 UTC

When we repeatedly undermine their self-esteem. When we show indifference and apathy towards them. When we not appreciate their effort.

Katerina Kostaki, Greece

katkos2003 — 2016-06-23 15:01:43 UTC

In order to weaken my student's confidence and independence, I could critisize them all the time using negative and dicouraging (maybe insulting sometimes) comments; be indifferent to their work; underestimate them praising the work of their best friends (!); put them bad marks despite their effort.

Gwen France

gwenlf — 2016-06-23 15:03:35 UTC

I think that some pupils just can't achieve all the goals prescripted by our national curriculums and exams and even if they try very hard, the bad marks will weaken their confidence.

Dimitra, Greece

2016-06-23 15:27:04 UTC

There are many things we could do to weaken our students’ confidence and independence. First of all, we could assign to them very difficult tasks, almost impossible, and ask them to carry them out without any help or support. Then, when they fail we could criticize them and make very negative or even contemptuous and insulting comments. Moreover, we could not allow them any initiative, but ask them to always listen and repeat and copy things down. Correcting every single mistake they make can also be very demotivating and discouraging. Finally, if we are always moody and don’t show to them that we love them, we care for them and we want to spend time with them reduces their self-esteem and, at times, turns them against their teacher and school in general.

Tânia Coelho - Portugal

tcoelho76 — 2016-06-23 15:31:28 UTC

Perhaps

cimy, Italy

2016-06-23 15:50:23 UTC

We can weaken our student's confidence and independence by telling them constantly what they have to do, by not giving them any choice, by stifling their enthusiasm, by making them feel as if their mistakes were a result of their lack of intelligence, by isolating them within the classroom, by treating them as dummies, by showing we have little expectations from them, by not listening to their divergent ideas, by telling them off instead of being supportive, by focusing on mistakes and failures, by criticizing and never rewarding them, by killing their motivation with our insensitivity & cynicism, in a word ... by being just like some of the teachers I had at school and hated!

Edit Rathne Toth, Hungary

tothedit0610 — 2016-06-23 16:02:44 UTC

Weakening students' confidence and independence happen regularly during the teaching and learning process by telling the students negative sentences or criticism.There are several possible reasons why teachers tend to do these:
-applying a negative pattern from their own childhood memories
-lack of patience
-lack of understanding
-projecting personal private life frustrations
-burnout syndrome
-teachers' personality problems
-students' personality problems
-teachers' old-fashioned views attitudes and/or teaching methods
-being criticized by students either with a good reason or without any good reasons.

Carmen Stanciu,Romania

2016-06-23 16:13:03 UTC

In my opinion,we can weaken the students confidence if we don t give them time to listen their problems,if we focussing only their failures,without any encouragement, if we give them extrawork to punish a bad behavior. And ..yes..if we never SMILE!!

Gio

juana_tanzi — 2016-06-23 16:31:41 UTC

As teachers, we can weaken our student's confidence and independence by telling them constantly what they don’t have to do, by not giving them any freedom of speech, by smothering their enthusiasm, by letting them feel as they are not intelligent enough, by isolating them, by not trusting them, by showing doubts about their understanding, by not listening to their ideas or words, by not being supportive, by underlining their mistakes and failures, by criticizing and never praising them, by destroying their motivation and creativity with our criticism, heartlessness and sometimes negativity and sarcasm.

Caterina Musmeci, Italy

kmusmeci — 2016-06-23 16:59:05 UTC

We can weaken the student's confidence whenever we have preconceptions about their ability, knowledge, culture, skill. The students are not trains on the tracks: intended to success or to failure according to our opinion!!

Stratos / Greece

2016-06-23 17:12:08 UTC

It is really easy to weaken students' confidence and independence.

We teachers, are their second family, so if we act like bad parents by criticizing

Vicenta Revert, Spain

VicentaRevert — 2016-06-23 17:28:59 UTC

As teachers, we can weaken our student's confidence and independence focussing only on mistakes, failures. We can also weaken them by obviating their good skills just because they are not academic but emotional, for example. Underestimating multiple skills in other fields, like designing, playing music, acting in theater. Considering them not adults enough to take their own decisions, not letting them to collaborate. Criticizing them in order to build a constructive interaction. To sum up, acting like a traditional teacher who doesn't allow students to be the most important piece in the educational puzzle.

Reneta Raicheva/Bulgaria

2016-06-23 18:14:25 UTC

My team & I practice a lot of amazing games in order to motivate children & to wake up their interest to learn. We tried many creative language & new digital games. Here's our great experience made on 'Thiglink'...enjoy it! :)

VLAD EUGENIA -IOANA, ROMANIA

2016-06-23 18:31:26 UTC

I think we can create an atmosfer in the class giving to all students opportunity to answer and to listen them. We must criticize the idea not the person!
Also if we can have a good communication and not criticize in public they will trust in us, they will look us also as a friend.

Alexandra Soare, Romania

2016-06-23 18:33:35 UTC

Confidence, independence and self-esteem are important for students' success. One can weaken their confidence and independence by criticizing them constantly, by not accepting their interventions and ideas, by not praising their progress (even the most insignificant ones), by making them be afraid to try and "fail". Obviously, the opposite of these will encourage students' independence and confidence.

Anabela, Portugal

2016-06-23 19:21:18 UTC

The lack of resilience is interfering with the academic mission of the school and is thwarting the emotional and personal development of students. Nowadays, the students haven’t developed skills, because their parents have solved all their problems and removed the obstacles. If we want to prepare our kids for anything else in life, we have to give our children the freedom, which children have always enjoyed in the past, to get away from adults so they can practice being adults—that is, practice taking responsibility for themselves,

You need to let them to do make mistakes and thus learn.

Pavlos Koutouzis, Greece

2016-06-23 19:27:23 UTC

The teachers should encourage their students with any opportunity they have.Every mistake made by a student should be an occasion for the teacher to drive the lesson project over the formal borders

Barbara Falzini - Italy

b_falzini — 2016-06-23 19:59:28 UTC

1-Not giving evidence of success to their efforts;
2- Giving false evidence of success to their failures!
3- Avoiding High expectations;
4- Not allowing "their" time!

Marco Felice - Italy

marcotomasoni — 2016-06-23 20:12:30 UTC

being too critical as being too praiseworthy against students is counterproductive .

I think that to take the boys to the self-knowledge of their strengths to make them independent is to give them self-confidence by highlighting every single quality that is very important for the success of a success

Angelina Alberico, Italy

angelina_alberico — 2016-06-23 20:22:45 UTC

According to me it is very simple as a teacher could weaken the confidence and independence of a pupil, constantly scolding him in front of his friends and correcting it with the famous red pen, that only the color from a sense of danger or an accident. Instead it is very difficult to create an environment where students are confident and independent. A teacher should create a satisfactory climate considering these aspects: intellectual, emotional, social and physical environment. From the intellectual point of view the teacher should organize their work so as to involve all pupils must be motivated and encouraged to do so that they become autonomous in the various disciplines. From the emotional point of view, the teacher must create encouraging atmosphere in which students feel safe, will receive support when they fail in learning, and its constant care must be able to achieve its goals. Also it affects the social aspect, because among students there must be a collaborative support and non-competitive. Finally, as regards the physical environment, the teacher must eliminate any type of barrier so that learning is the same for all students and everyone can access in the same way to the teaching material. I will not presumptuous, but in my long working experience, I happened many times to have in class pupils insecure. My job was to make him gain confidence, putting him in the spotlight, thanks to the help and cooperation of the family. Everything through the reprimands and corrections; reproaches were made by taking the student aside and not in front of his companions, making him understand where he went wrong; the corrections I made with this pupil, making him understand his mistakes, pointing out that to err is human and you are in school to learn. For me a good teacher must create a climate of peace and collaboration within the classroom by helping the weakest.

Cinzia Spogli, Italy

cinzia_spogli — 2016-06-23 20:27:47 UTC

In my opinion, there are several ways to weak students, some of them can happens without our awareness. If we are not able to create a relaxed milieu but, otherwise a stressed one, we undercut the class' s possibility. We have to avoid non-constructive criticism, especially if public, in order to make them wrong or not enough. Moreover, if we are not clear about our planning, our ideas or what we want they to learn and why, we make them feel in a unknown path. It's also important, to me, to be very specific about assessment criteria and to be sure that they understand their mistakes and how to improve . Last, but important, give the idea that we would be somewhere else, as we don't like to be their teacher.

Myriam, Italy

myriam_roson — 2016-06-23 20:33:53 UTC

Even though I do not do it on purpose I believe I am not always able to motivate my students and give them the drive and grit they should have. Teaching conditions are sometimes rather difficult; for example this year I had a class of 31 students of mixed-abilites to deal with and that was really demanding. There was just no time with three hours of English per week and a certain number of formal assessments to be had by end of term to really help them individually with their difficulties. Even group work with such a large number was a great challenge. These learning conditions certainly made some students feel insecure about their abilities, and made me feel I had not been able to do enough for them.

Isabel Graça - Portugal

isamg — 2016-06-23 20:33:59 UTC

When the student comes to us or gives us a cocky work that he thinks is perfect and we give an answer or make a remark that takes them KO; then they look again for us to “save” them! �

Lina Mosca Italy

2016-06-23 20:41:31 UTC

A teacher weak confidence and indipendence when he corrests the mistakes and stops students perfrmance to do it, when he gives evidence on their failure, when he shouts and doesn't listen to them, when he doesn't give all students the same oppurtunities and when he isn't care to create a good environement.
I think teacher must go into the classroom with a smile and leaves his problems at home.

Caterina Poiatti

2016-06-23 21:10:00 UTC

Italy
The presence of the teacher in the classroom is already a base that tends to weaken the confidence of the student. The teacher must be able to demonstrate to the children that the judgment is not a condemnation, but a stimulus to grow. Create working groups helps students find confidence, as they relate directly with their peers, and together they can overcome difficulties.

Keratso Georgiadou Greece

keratsog — 2016-06-23 21:14:14 UTC

A teacher must give truly love to his/her students. The children can recognize it. Whenever I reacted as their friend it was appreciated and brought me near to them. That means that if students make a mistake this will bring them closer to the truth and that is exactly what we are looking for our students, the knowledge and the truth. A teacher must give the hand and make the student feel confident.

Ayşe Gül ÖZBİLEN / TURKEY

ayshezbil — 2016-06-23 21:15:22 UTC

I have a lot of students which have low self-confidence. They are depence on me. When I ask a question they give me an answer and if I ask them " are you sure?" they change their answers immediately. Also if the answer is wrong, their friends are laughing at them. Because of this situation, my students don't want to join the lesson. I see that kind of situation many times and now I find a way to give them confidence, I tell them something wrong and show that every one can make mistake even teachers. I tell them don't hasitate to tell your idea, it can be wrong, it doesn't matter, the important thing is " trying". Edison didn't intend the bulb at first time. He tried thousand times, and he failed thousand times, but not GİVE UP. Also if they give wrong answers I'm giving them some clues, some extra questions to think in other way. At the end of the day, they know that they will be successful, even they failed.

Mina,Bg

sminamin — 2016-06-23 21:30:35 UTC

In my opinion, teachers can weaken students confidence if they:

do not trust them (do not believe in them)
focus only on the negative aspects of their performance or just on their failures
never give them feedback
never show them the relevance of what they are doing and never give them a second chance
give them extra work to punish a bad behaviour

Piccolo Angela ,Italy

2016-06-23 21:54:33 UTC

I think that Teachers can weaken the trust and the independence in the students when they don't believe in them and in their abilities; when they want to have the control of every situation and they don't leave them free to express themselves and choose how also to make mistakes , calling them for every mistake .On the contrary encourage them , support them , create a serene and not pressing them instills confidence and desire to try and experience

Giampaolo, Italy

giampaolo_squarcina — 2016-06-24 05:48:20 UTC

A teacher can weaken the resilience of students:
1) Highlighting their failures
2) By setting too simple goals
3) Creating teaching situations divorced from a practical fallout

Maria Kontoula,Greece

earthsciencekro — 2016-06-24 07:14:57 UTC

If a teacher want to weaken his/her students' confindence and independence it is based on his/her attitude .So the luck of trust , not treated equally, not listen to theirown problems and questioning . But most of all if the teacher doesn't teach by his example . His/her everyday behaviour can only inspire the students .
As a conclussion if the teacher doesn't respect students' indendity.

Alessia (Italy)

alessia_lalomia — 2016-06-24 08:50:37 UTC

Teachers can weak the students in different ways: not give feedback, not answer to their questions, shout without listening students’opinions, not give relevance to their feelings, assign marks, not let to know each other. I think that the best way to encourage self-confidence is that encourage to speak about themselves. I suggest to use collaborative activities to share feelings and opinions, giving charts and tables like this.

Emanuele Gardini Italy

2016-06-24 08:57:01 UTC

In my opinion teachers weaken student's confident if
-they highlight only the negative things in student's work
- they don't speak clearly
-they don't give feedback to the students
-they put the attention just on their personal speech and not on the students question
-don't trust in the ability of students to learn from mistakes and improve themselves
- don't listen student's opinions or impressions
- never show them the connection between what they are learning and the real world

Dianne Essers

essersdianne — 2016-06-24 09:36:36 UTC

The biggest mistakes are to weaken a students confidence
is to always highlight the negative instead of the positive, no trust in a student and not to klisten , not to listen to a student and realty listen and hear a student being the key.

Catarina Rodrigues, Portugal

canrodrigues — 2016-06-24 10:06:22 UTC

As a teachers we can weaken our student's confidence and independence if we:
- do not enjoy spending time with them;
- do not care about them;
- do not expect from them;
- do activities they don't like;
- criticize them publicly;
- do not highlight their success;
- punish them when they fail.

Adina Oancea, Romania

carmenadin7 — 2016-06-24 10:47:39 UTC

I rememberd this poem, there are lots of small videos on youtube based on this one...this is how a teacher can waken students' confidence and independence...Nothing more to say :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh6r3LVxD6k

Diana, Italy

2016-06-24 10:59:29 UTC

In my experience listening is very important: if you don't care about your students, they won't listen you. It's a circle. If you don't dare to be wrong, to think by themselves, to play and experiment with knowledge...they won't be confident and independent!

Doriana, Italy

palumbodoriana — 2016-06-24 11:04:45 UTC

We can weaken our students resilience by:
- giving them homework we should know, they are not able to do alone;
- underlining their failures in public;
- assigning single tasks that should be carried out within a group.
- showing them that there's no time for self expression.

Vasleios Boskos, Gree

2016-06-24 11:05:15 UTC

Teacher’s authority is the only necessary component in the classroom to weaken student's confidence and independence. After all only students make mistakes, never the teacher. Knowing that they the best possible teacher is present in the class is more than enough for them.

Asun Ara, Spain

2016-06-24 11:11:21 UTC

Comparisons are the most powerful destroyers of our students' confidence. Nowdays, we are in a society that we are continuously ranking people and things. For learners, these rankings are disastrous. Many students can feel blocked by means of these comparations. Weak learners can feel ashamed of their poor results, but good students can also feel embarrassed of their results. So, please, AVOID COMPARISONS.

Anabel F. Spain

aformos2 — 2016-06-24 11:25:45 UTC

Teachers can weaken our students' confidence and independence by:
- giving them too much directions on what they have to do
- highlighting their mistakes and failures
- encouraging individuals and not groups

Sara Viotti

sara_viotti — 2016-06-24 12:06:03 UTC

When a teacher decides that a student is not able to learn, he shows it in many ways: he/she ask him/her questions the student could find some difficults to answer, for example. Sometimes it's done to build intentionally a discrimination toward this student and increase the self confidence of other, the teacher thinks are more intelligent. It seems to be something belonging to the XVII century, but I've listened a teacher talking about a student, a sensible girl , directing to her classmates :"Have you noticed? I had always thought she was totally silly and today she has answered a question, although she can't speak French and probably she would be successfull in another field. Have you seriously consireded the possibility to enroll you to a cake design course, dear?". No words.

Antonietta Guida, Italy

Italianteacher — 2016-06-24 12:30:50 UTC

It is possible to develop resilience in our students through a combination of factors: setting out the right environment, building positive relationships, ensuring that every students gets a chance to be successful, giving them opportunities for meaningful contribution, supporting cooperative learning, avoiding focusing on failures, praising students.

Gabriela Tache, Romania

2016-06-24 12:45:21 UTC

I am convinced that the best way to prepare our youth for the future is to provide each student with resiliency. We can do this by providing them feelings of competence, belonging, usefulness, and optimism through repeated, and authentic school experiences and by critically examining their results.

Mariapia, Italy

mariapia_borghesan — 2016-06-24 13:24:58 UTC

We weaken our students' resilience when:
-we don't trust in them
-we underline their failures in public
-we think they are not able to do anything

Patrizia Roma, Italy

patrizia_roma60 — 2016-06-24 14:16:26 UTC

We weaken our students resilience whenever we show we don't trust them, or when we say that they're hopeless at something. We also make a big mistake if we criticize them in public. To be honest I never do this.

Isabel Sousa, Portugal

isamsousa — 2016-06-24 14:23:39 UTC

When a teacher never gives feedback, acts like he is himself a perfect person, who knows everything and never fails (and I don’t believe this is related to authority), when he doesn’t listen to other doubts, questions or suggestions, when he only gives space to those who are usually right, never giving time for those who need more time to think, when he never encourages them to start from scratch again with our help (or their colleagues help) … all this things might weaken our student’s confidence and independence.

Maria Sourgiadaki

msourgiad — 2016-06-24 14:47:18 UTC

Mistrusting, criticizing, offending, making fun of a student is disastrous for his self-confidence. I also agree with what Isabel Sousa says.

Anna Chiarenza - Italy

annachiarenza — 2016-06-24 15:05:57 UTC

First of all there should be no stress in the classroom. The atmosphere should be a relaxed one. We have to listen to our students and trust them, praise them whenever they try to do something that they consider hard; even if the result is not the best one. Try to give feedback at the end of any attempt of the student to speak or complete a task and always stress all the positive aspects besides the negative ones.

Irene Confalone,Italy

2016-06-24 15:27:12 UTC

I think students become more confident ,day by day, if the teacher says : "Come on ! Go on ! You are a good student ! You can do it!" " nothing is so difficult" This is my experience with a deaf student.Evenmore this is the best sentence we would like to listen to.Isn't it?

Marisa Rocha, Portugal

2016-06-24 15:28:29 UTC

A poor teacher is boring, monotonous, has no empathy, gives no positive input to students and parents, always points out the negatives and never the positives, creates distance instead of proximity, accepts no extra work from students, always teaches in the same way, takes no risks, thinks (s)he is the "master of the universe", works alone, makes fun of students, discriminates, judges, is a bully, never apologises, doesn't teach by example, undermines students' confidence, dreads the job, doesn't socialise with students, is uppity, screams, fails to see that students are all different and deserve respect.

Simona, Italy

2016-06-24 15:33:53 UTC

We weaken a student when we says and we think "he's so, he will never change", "he will not able, never". Thinking so, we give the same task, we never encourage to new challenge. Instead we have to give to everyone the same possibility to learning by way of new method of teaching.
We weaken indipendence when we don't leave students free to make choices and we stay at the centre of the lesson, for exemple in the frontal lesson.

Maria Nikolova

maria_n_ss — 2016-06-24 15:54:10 UTC

A good teacher is confident. The teacher who gives confidence to the students. Teacher who acquaints students not only in subject matter, teaching - gives them knowledge about life. His/her students say for him/her after time to their children: "Ago of time I had a teacher who teach me of that."

Giovanna Berardo - Italy

2016-06-24 15:55:22 UTC

We weaken students' confidence and indipendence by giving them only negative feedbacks, focusing exclusively on their mistakes, humiliating them in public, telling they are not able to do something, supporting them too much, making fun of them, not listen to their questions or ideas or doubts, choosing only a teacher-driven methodology and doing exclusively teacher-centred lessons.

Marisa - Italy

carcollamaria — 2016-06-24 16:04:59 UTC

I think a teacher could weaken students’ confidence and independence by not encouraging them to try again even when they fail. Teachers need to be extremely patient and understanding especially when some students do not get what they are asked. At times even the best students get disheartened but, with a positive approach and attitude towards them, they can be motivated to carry on. I usually have two expressions that I use when they say: “I can’t do it or I am not capable of doing it”. I simply ask them: “who told you”? Then I say:”never let anyone say to you that you can’t do it. You can and well for that matter!”

Ana - Portugal

2016-06-24 16:31:56 UTC

We(teachers) weaken students confidence when we give them negative encouragement and saying they do many mistakes or they are not able to improve.
I think we must encourage the students, we must listen to them (their own ideas about several subjects). If we make them believe in their abilities and in their improvement and if we give them confidence and motivation, surely, they will be more confidents and they will accept the new challenges in a positive thoughts.

Vilija, Lithuania

2016-06-24 16:38:35 UTC

Pretend that you know everything on your subject. And keep saying that even you can't get the highest mark for this task. That will definitely work - your students will never try to do their best. Never try new things: work with old textbooks, use old fashioned methods and topics, give students hand written exercises and ask to write answers on a paper and etc. That will prove them one day that learning a boring thing to do and life starts outside the school.

annabormida — 2016-06-24 16:50:07 UTC

Anna Bormida, Genova, Italy
I think that we, as teacher , could weaken students when we don’t encourage them to express their best practise or trying to do it. Also when we look at their mistakes not as a way to learn better but in order to underline failure and bad behaviours.

My personal trainer asks me to do the better I can and she explains to all the group how can we use our body and our mind in order to achieve good results ! She asks us to do what we can, but trying to increase and improve our movements.

She asks us attention to all the part of the bodies and day by day I feel more confident and sure in all the exercises

ioannis padiotis Underestimate students when: We talking sharply and insultingly, just look only good students so by discriminating, not counting their wishes.

ioannispad — 2016-06-24 16:57:05 UTC

Zaklina Kolevska, Macedonia

ntzaki — 2016-06-24 17:04:04 UTC

Teachers have to be very aware what is behind the question or student's attitude. So, giving negative feedback, not treating them equally, just responding without asking reflexive questions, if you talk only to the best students, commenting on their outfit, assigning too demanding tasks are some of the examples for destroying their confidence.

Vasilica Gazdac,Romania

vasilicagazdac — 2016-06-24 17:09:13 UTC

A teacher who always criticize students' responses, not empathetic to their needs, will compromise the entire process of total educational class.

Remedios (Spain)

2016-06-24 17:16:30 UTC

If we only point point out their mistakes and also focus on what they can't do, we are making them feel they are losers.

Thersa from Italy

thersaiovine — 2016-06-24 17:29:58 UTC

HOW NOT TO WEAKEN OUR STUDENTS:
Every teacher must believe in their students. This is the only way for everybody to succeed in school and in life.
Each student plays his instrument, there is nothing to do. The difficult thing is to know well our musicians and find harmony. A good class is not a regiment marching in step, it is an orchestra that feels the same symphony.
(Daniel Pennac)
Good teachers make us understand that there will always be stones along the road ahead of us. They are stumbling stones or milestones; it all depends on how we use it.
(Anonymous)
If your projects are aimed at one year plant rice, 20 plants a tree, a century teaches men.
(Chinese proverb)

Antonella,Italy

antonellabalena — 2016-06-24 17:49:45 UTC

Every teacher who believes in his/her students is a good teacher.Creating connections,relationships is the basis for the educative collaboration which will lead to students' success,despite the possible failures and mistakes

Athina Kossyvaki, Thessaloniki, Greece

akossyv — 2016-06-24 19:16:30 UTC

A teacher can weaken his/her student's confidence and independence by criticizing in front of the class, pointing out and making fun of the student’s mistakes, never encouraging those we really need it.

Sophia Malagoniari, Greece

2016-06-24 19:35:53 UTC

There are many ways a teacher can weaken a student's confidence and independence by yelling, criticizing and dividing the class into "good" and "bad" sts.
We should support mistakes our sts do and encourage them to learn from their failures by respecting them and giving the freedom of independence they need.

Pefkoula Stagia, Greece

pstagia — 2016-06-24 19:45:07 UTC

What if:
The school environment was poor in motives, didn't lend interest to activity and didn't invite the child to conduct it's own experiences. That would be a learning environment that coyld weaken student's confidence and independence.

Luisa Pascarella, Italy

luisapascarella1965 — 2016-06-24 19:59:38 UTC

This video is very useful to suggest me what I can weaken my student's confidence and independence.

Isabella Cassandra

isacassandra — 2016-06-24 20:18:30 UTC

Tips to weaken our student's confidence:
- Do what I say to do;
- Do only exercises;
- Don't collaborate with your schoolmates;
- Say exactly what I want to listen;
- Why do you always fail?
- You don't study enough!!!

Teresa Maia, Portugal

mariateresalcobia — 2016-06-24 20:23:20 UTC

How we as teachers can weaken our student's confidence and independence:

If we do not like what we do, we not tamed our students.
If we create a competitive environment in classroom instead create a collaborative one.
If the teacher is not empathetic to their student.
If teacher don´t give opportunity to every student shows his value.
If teacher doesn’t demonstrate that he has good expectations for every student.
If the teacher doesn’t engage students in their learning process.

Argiro Zikouli, Greece

azikouli — 2016-06-24 20:46:42 UTC

-Do as I say, because this is right
-By never asking their opinion
-By having them just listen and be inactive
-By not trusting ourselves
-By not respecting them and their needs
-By being afraid to say "I don't know"

Marta Antunes, Portugal

2016-06-24 22:16:48 UTC

It's difficult to innovate when all has been said but I take very seriously these words someone said here: comparisons are the most powerful destroyers of our students' confidence. So, please, AVOID COMPARISONS. We can feel weak or strong depending on the position we are in, but usually such attitude can be disastrous to ones's self confidence.

Virginia Alberti- Italy

2016-06-24 22:49:19 UTC

I believe that a proposal for learning challenger will enable the student, increasing self-esteem in achieving collaborative knowledge objectives. Interaction, peer comparison, taking a role in a collaborative activity and conduct the activities planned according to netiquette shared strengthen the autonomy, the independence of each student

Reyhan Gunes~Turkey

2016-06-25 03:52:49 UTC

Despite some of my mistakes I used to behave in a constructive way. Building a positive relationship means that you've given them an opportunity to learn and gain confedence as a contributer. Here are some of my positive behaviours to create a confident and independent learners:

1. First day of school preparing fun icebreakers
2.Positive relationships with parents

3. Try not to say "wrong", always being positive
4.Don't use negative feedback

5.On-the-Spot Affirmation

6. Resolve arguments outside of the class

7. Designing class that foster their creativity or move another room (not always)

8. Clear communication

9. Teach them positive actions and behave what you say them to be

8. Try to change the way they learn like using PBL

Letizia Cherri, Italy

letizia_cherri1 — 2016-06-25 05:53:20 UTC

Unfortunately I think it is very easy to weaken our st’s confidence and indipendence at every age. The most negative thing I believe is not creating a personal relationship but keeping the sts detached. Secondly, it is harmful not encouraging them and underlining only weakness and defects. On the other end I try to build a supportive personal relationship since the very first day suggesting entertaining and alternative activities to make them relaxed and curious. I start activating some strategies to make them trust me and their classmate; encourage them to try without caring about mistakes and above all raising their self-esteem.

Monica Boccoli, Italy

mobocco — 2016-06-25 05:58:32 UTC

Resilience is commonly described as a person's capacity to cope with changes and challenges and to 'bounce back' during difficult times.
In this poster we can find how to improve the resilience.

Sharon, Australia

2016-06-25 06:39:55 UTC

weakening students' confidence by giving them the answers, not giving them enough time to respond, comparing them and giving them feedback such as 'well done' rather than 'that's great, I can really see how much effort you have put into your work!'.

Lucia Letizia, Italy

2lucia_letizia — 2016-06-25 07:53:18 UTC

I weaken the confidence and independence of my students every time:
• they compare between their pupils;
• explanations in turn attention only to the brightest pupils;
• I replace my pupils in the answers and practical activities;
• monster to have a prejudice of a pupil (halo effect)
• give more space to the most talented pupils;
• I say: - "Today you did well. So why do not you always do? "-" How is it that you did not understand? I have repeated a thousand times! "-" Never mind you, do it do to your companion who is good! "-" That's a stupid question! "-" I do not understand anything! "...

ALBERTO GARNIGA - Trentino, Italy

2016-06-25 08:19:14 UTC

these are my suggestions to destroy a classroom environment that supports students to become confident and independent learners:
> change the rules arbitrarily or, at the contrary, giving them narrow instructions without interpretation
> punishing them if they don't strictly follow the narrow instructions
> never supporting (with decision making tools or reflection) them in case of conflicts
> do not setting any target to reach and any deadline to be respected
> do not negotiating, at the beginning, the behaviour rules; in particular, permitting bossy actions
> stressing the failures and the weakness points, not emphasizing the strength points
> distracting them from the focus of the project and focusing them on their egos...

There are so many examples in human history...

Víctor, Spain.

Victor84 — 2016-06-25 08:45:46 UTC

There are lots of situations that can diminish their confidence and independence. For instance, if you get impossible deadlines to them and the targets are unclear, their confidence and independence will decrease.
So, it is really important to solve these points.

@Gmedranotic

gmedranotic — 2016-06-25 09:52:08 UTC

Asking them something difficult or letting them alone in the learning processes.
They have to know that they are being accompanied all the way in the learning process. If they feel alone, they can give up.
This means not solving the difficulties they found, this is to make them confident and to encourage them to let them solve the different problems.

Ivana Ľuptáčiková, Slovakia

2016-06-25 10:09:05 UTC

Teacher is a very important person in pupil’s life. In the primary school sometimes more than mum and dad because pupil has to do homework as Mrs.teacher said it. In the secondary school this significance decreases but teacher is still a person who spends most of day’s time with students. How can I decrease student’s confidence and independence? I think if I teach for myself without respect needs of students, without asking about their opinions, ideas, only with criticism their work, I will weaken their self confidence.

2016-06-25 11:06:39 UTC

Mariangela - Italy

Dilek Erdağ Bek, Turkey

erdag1 — 2016-06-25 12:13:29 UTC

How we as teachers can weaken our student's confidence and independence?

1. Take the control of the whole process.
2. Give positive responses to the best students.
3. Criticize the students about their mistakes.
4. Assess the students by yourself.
5. Direct your students to the truth that you believe.
6. Always care about the natural leaders of the groups.
7. Give instructions without explanations.
8. Don’t care the process, but the product.
9. Focus on their weaknesses.
10. Get in contact with your students in a formal way.
11. Give them fewer options; tell them what to reach in the end.
12. Give limited time to express themselves.
13. Punish the students for their failure.
14. Don’t trust them about their learning process.
15. Kidding with unsuccessful students.

Ildikó, Hungary

ildiko_csordas — 2016-06-25 12:55:17 UTC

We weaken confidence when assessment criteria are not clear.

Antonietta Amore, Italy

aamore — 2016-06-25 13:03:20 UTC

I think that we, as teachers, could weaken student’s confidence

· when we underline their failures and bad behaviours without considering them a way to grow up and improve knowledge.

· when we give them negative encouragement saying they do many mistakes or they are not able to improve.

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

· When we tell them constantly what they should do or not do without giving 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.

Irini Pougounia, Greece

pougounia — 2016-06-25 13:33:29 UTC

A school environment is not supportive when teachers do the whole job and do not let students participate or offer their contribution to class; when a teacher does not listen to their students' voices, to their needs, to their capacities.

Stefan (Malta)

talbiology — 2016-06-25 13:41:36 UTC

A few things that can weaken student resilience:
1. Labeling students as weak, low achievers, lower track, etc.
2. Referring to a particular class or group by its low academic performance.
3. Accepting lower effort and work quality from students with different abilities. This is a tricky one. On one hand, not all students will perform to the same level, but on the other hand students that put a lot of effort into their work might feel that they are being short-changed when students who do less are recognized as being at par with them.

Jolanta Stefańska, Poland

jolanta_stefanska — 2016-06-25 13:47:40 UTC

Unconfident and dependent teachers in our "medieval" school reality - it has to weaken students' confidence and independence.

EVANTHIA KONTOGOURI

evikont5 — 2016-06-25 13:50:28 UTC

Everything that came up in my mind as an answer, has already been written (about not letting students do anything on their own, focusing on the mistakes and so on). I would add that we weaken their confidence and independence when they don't feel safe, when they don't know what to expect from us and what we expect from them and when they are afraid of their classmates.

Anna Drakotou, Greece

anna_drakotu — 2016-06-25 13:54:17 UTC

Criticizing students in public and stressing their mistakes ; labeling a class or student as the worst; not paying attention or focusing on what they say, being absent; being impolite, ironical and sarcastic , to mention but a few! A supportive teacher should try to be humorous not sarcastic, polite and encouraging, praising the students’ character strengths not their weaknesses.

Achilleas, Cyprus

axilleask — 2016-06-25 15:12:03 UTC

When we ask questions that we know beforehand that no one will answer just to show off our knowledge.

Monica Morana, Italy

moimorana — 2016-06-25 15:38:14 UTC

Labeling, failing to recognize their efforts, giving a valuation not for their performance, but for the person...those are things that can weaken everyone.
Appreciating, encouraging, respecting them individuality and learning style ... these are things that make our students confident and indipendent.

Clara Abegão, Portugal

claraabegao — 2016-06-25 15:50:09 UTC

We can weaken our student's confidence and independence, for example if we “rescue too quickly”! If a teacher swoop in and take care of problems for their students, and doesn´t allow them to fail, he/she removes the need for them to “navigate hardships” and they will never develop some of the life skills.

Maria Vasilopoulou, Greece

mbasilopoulou — 2016-06-25 16:04:49 UTC

For me the most important tip is to make the students feel safe in their learning environment by showing respect and praise their efforts as well as building a strong bond among them. If students feel nice then they are willing to work and they will love learning which is our primary goal as teachers. By doing exactly the opposite we can succeed in alienating them from school and learning in general.

Giancarlo Ganapini Italy

2016-06-25 16:28:11 UTC

There are many ways that can weaken students’ resilience. Among these I would mention being just an inquisitive teacher who wants answer to his questions studied only by heart, who is not supportive at all in creating a good atmosphere and a good learning environment. Teachers like these give mostly negative feedbacks and label students as weak or low levels. Teachers could also not recognize the different individual abilities, and in doing so on one hand they don’t challenge the students who could do better and on the other they could demotivate the others who have put a lot of effort in their work despite their difficulties.

The things that make our students more confident and independent are instead encouraging, appreciating and respecting their individuality and their learning styles.

Anastasios Kollias, Greece

2016-06-25 16:38:01 UTC

When they have the sense that you are standing "against them" and not "with them", that they are not accepted or beloved by you and, even worse, that there is not even the slightest possibility to win your heart.
Children need love and acceptance. Even when they fail, they want to look at you in the eyes and feel you saying "it's ok, I believe in you".

Amalia Di Mascolo, Italy

molinaro_lia — 2016-06-25 16:38:20 UTC

What a teacher should never do is to judge his student like a "lost cause": whatever he does he will never overcome his mistakes.
A good teacher has to encourage his student to be self confident because, no matter how difficult the situation is, he can find a solution. He needs to try and try again without getting tired or loosing hope, he needs to rely on who can help him to find the right answers ... the classmates... and the teachers themselves.

Kleri, Greece

evriklia19 — 2016-06-25 16:45:49 UTC

There are so many teacher behaviours that can weaken the student's confidence and independence! If a teacher focusses only or mostly on the weaknesses of the students, don't praise them enough or often, correts every little mistake that they make he doesn't let them grow and shine. The same happens when teachers are praising only the good students and they don't try to motivate and support the students that have difficulties. A teacher that doesn't care about a pleasant and supportive class atmosphere and doesn't motivate his students to seek for answers and find solutions. A teacher that only focusses on the curriculum and doesn't pay attention to the difficulties, questions and needs of his students.

Angela Pluda, Italy

2016-06-25 16:51:53 UTC

If a teacher considers a student a bad one, surely this student will consider bad himself. If a teacher underlines only mistakes, students will think that they never can do right things...

Andrea Ceccarelli, Italy

2016-06-25 17:05:20 UTC

We as a teacher can weaken our student's confidence and indipendence being concerned about our needs more than our student's needs.

Simona Curreli, Italy

simonacurreli — 2016-06-25 17:12:00 UTC

We can weaken our student's confidence when the lesson content is not appropriately matched to students’ abilities, when we highlight their failure or when we criticize their misunderstanding. I think that there are many things teachers can do to improve students' confidence and indipendence.
We can help them by building their confidence through experiences that develop their competence.
We have to be more positive with them, explain that failure is part of our life and that when we find obstacles we have to face them not allowing them to condition our scholastic path.

Eleni, Gr

lab4tee — 2016-06-25 17:19:30 UTC

Smile, encourage, look happy to be there, be kind, listen not look like you listen and be possitive and they will follow.....

Bartolomeo Corbo - Italy

bartolomeo_corbo — 2016-06-25 17:39:49 UTC

Decalogue of perfetct (bad) teacher

1. Teacher is always right!

2. Rest assured that the students did not want to work!

3. Stake your authorities with punishment!

4. Always belittle your students!

5. Only the best students deserve your help; the worst leave them alone!

6. Never give clear instructions!

7. Do not let the students can have their ideas!

8. Highlight their mistakes: they learn better!

9. Hate the noise and confusion!

10.Eliminate divergent thinking!

Amelia Vilarinho, belgium

vilarinhamelia — 2016-06-25 17:42:16 UTC

"Reverse brainstorming" - I personally believe that the abusive teachers I'm about to refer in this reflection are fortunately "endangered species".

Authority is expected from teachers as a way to promote a safe environment where children grow respect for themselves and the others.

However, when authority is misused, evolves to forms of authoritarianism where the teacher thinks she/he can say whatever "needed" to "educate"and teach "good behavior".

In our classroom there are always students who have more difficulty in dealing with their emotions, concentrate at work, respect the group rules; children who are too shy or feeling lack of motivation, and so on... In short, these are the "bad students".

An abusive teacher tends to punish and humiliate these "bad" kids by always criticizing them in front of the others or, even worth, telling them over and over again how "difficult" they are. On the other hand, too permissive chaotic environment can lead students to feel like being left on their own and kind of "abandoned" by their teacher. Among many others, this kind of "teaching" attitude weakens children self-confidence and self-esteem.

Avoiding negative feedback and praise positive achievements, instead of "easy" criticism, encourage students to overcome their difficulties; Motivating children by focusing on their interests is half way to give them the opportunity to express themselves and play an active role on their learning process. Trusting "difficult" children responsible tasks, respecting them for who their are and keeping good expectations is essential to help them and their peers creating positive relationships. Felling that everyone matters and believing that all have an important role in the group is one of the keys for building self-confidence and be willing to persevere when confronted with unsuccessful situations.

Another important aspect that we, as teachers and educators, have to bear in mind is the non-verbal language in our day to day life in school. We cannot expect constructive behavior from a child who is hungry or emotionally stressed; focusing becomes difficult and we have to be able to recognize it, and deal with it in a supportive and comprehensive way.

Francoise Altamura - Italy

sefralt — 2016-06-25 17:45:23 UTC

make the difference between a student and the other can weaken the confidence of the student but also point out the weaknesses of the student in the presence of fellow.

absolutely not to do

Barbara Licciulli

barbarali — 2016-06-25 18:11:00 UTC

- Do not encourage;
- demolish any work that students do;
- denigrate;
- encourage only students who understand, while others do not care;
- Saying: "You do not understand anything";
- not welcoming.

2016-06-25 18:18:13 UTC

Nejat Yüksekdağ, Turkey
The knowledgeable people are comfortable. So if we are enough, no problem.But if not I think there is a big problem. We can not deal with problems. And unfortunately students understand that, also. In my opinion students are the theachers' mirror.

Triantafyllia, Greece

sivakatr — 2016-06-25 18:48:55 UTC

We can weaken students` confidence labelling students as weak, criticizing them negatively, not encouraging them.

Laura Gentili, Italy

laura2 — 2016-06-25 18:57:18 UTC

Elena Tychola _ Greec

2016-06-25 19:22:57 UTC

When the teaching environment is not supportive for students, when their needs and interests are not taken into consideration, when the lesson is not challenging but stuck to the curriculum only, then students interest and confidence. If Weaknesses of students are iidentified and criticized continuously students are discouraged and block their learning

Darina Kovaličová

kovalicova_d — 2016-06-25 20:01:41 UTC

How to weaken the confidence of the student:

· Giving difficult tasks

· to praise the same good students all the time

· to ignore the weaker students without any kind words

· not to check the understanding of the subject mater

· not to give the student any opportunity to express his/her opinion

· to send up student at the wrong response

· to shout at students without any reason

Mario Yúfera, Spain

marioyufera27 — 2016-06-25 20:11:02 UTC

We undermine student's confidence when:
- We give them a lower mark to motivate them
- We criticise them in public
- We laugh or joke when they make mistakes

Martina Pokupec,

hege999 — 2016-06-25 20:43:51 UTC

I agree with almost everything the colleagues have written, so I'll just stress a few points:
- giving them too difficult/easy tasks
- not prasing and making their mistakes public
- allowing other students to make negative remarks and allowing a hostile classroom environment
- not challenging them
- ignoring their interests

Xenia Xistouri, Cyprus

2016-06-25 21:00:47 UTC

I believe that we can build students' confidence simply by focusing on their good moments and praise them. Independence can be built by giving them choices.

Eliana68 ,(Italy)We teachers have a strong responsibility in the construction of the personality of our students. They have confidence in us and one our negative or offensive word can make each student a closed, pessimistic, discouraged, and pliant child. Instead, with our own encouragement, hug, smile and kind word, it’s possible to make every student confident in his capabilities, understanding that by trying different strategies, he will be able to achieve its goal.

eliansum — 2016-06-25 21:05:37 UTC

Roberta Guardini, Italy

2016-06-25 21:06:32 UTC

I think that also giving too much help, not letting students face challenges, is one aspect that can weaken self-confidence. I find it very difficult to find a good balance between providing essential scaffolding and "carrying pupils on your back"...

Marília Bação

mariliabacao — 2016-06-25 21:16:50 UTC

We can weakening our students by many ways and some of them are contradictory: given them too difficult or too easy tasks, for example.

When we say they have done something wrong, when we let other students laugh at others, when we aren’t alert to what is happening with them. When we don’t care enough…

The problem is it’s very difficult to give answers and really help students when you have 210 students a year. Believe me.

Catarina Pinheiro, Portugal

2016-06-25 21:33:41 UTC

Hummm, I will try to learn from this one and think about how I may be weakening my students' confidence. Well, I give them very structured tasks, sometimes I focus on their negative traits (I give them tips to improve, but still...), I don't challenge them enough...

Fernanda Vicente, Portugal

fernandavicente — 2016-06-25 23:20:20 UTC

I as a teacher can weakening my students confidence by several ways:
- by giving students easy tasks thinking that they are not able to do harder ones;
- by laughing of their mistakes;
- by letting other students to laugh of their wrong answears;
- by not allowing them to choose their path in th learning process;
- by not letting students to take decisions in their learning process.

Daniela Bunea, Romania

arghir_daniela — 2016-06-26 04:36:20 UTC

I think teachers can weaken their students' confidence and independence by not being encouraging enough especially towards those who need assistance and reassurance most, by not taking into account their passions/interests and their learning styles when planning and delivering a lesson, and by giving negative feedback alone, or last.

Skaiste Valutiene, Lithuania

2016-06-26 05:05:33 UTC

Certainty and sincerity. These characteristics that the teacher aware of your feelings on survival may be due to experience and expression; it establishes a direct personal contact with the students themselves, and not deny yourself. Such an authentic relationship with the students is contrary to the teaching role.
Evaluation, acceptance, trust. This means that the teacher assesses the student's feelings, his provisions, his personality, takes care of it, take the time to separate the person believes that he basically trustworthy. This does not exclude the teacher and the student's feelings and attitudes, which not only help, but also prevents them.
Empathetic understanding. "When the teacher can understand the students' reactions to the internal, sensitive perception of how the student sees learning and learning process, increases the opportunity to learn in a meaningful way. Empathy (empathy to the other person's emotional state) understanding is fundamentally different from the assessor.

Maria UK/Indonesia

2016-06-26 05:16:35 UTC

Weakening confidence and independence

1. Taking control.
2. Sole decision making
3. Helping them avoid failure all the time
4. Challenging negative emotions
5. Removing choice
6.Not listening
7. Not allowing mistakes

Gordana Popovic, Serbia

teachergordanap67 — 2016-06-26 05:35:48 UTC

How to weaken our students' confidence and independence:
- criticise more, praise less
- do all the talking
- be the only one who makes decisions about what, how and when to learn
- treat your students as numbers
- make fun of them/punish them when they make a mistake
- set your aims and expectations too high/ too low
- never challenge them

Eugenia Papanikolaou, Greece

eugpapan — 2016-06-26 05:51:43 UTC

We can weaken our students' confidence and independence by:
-giving hard tasks and not according to their abilities and skills
-praising less and criticising more
-not letting them taking initiative
-focusing on their mistakes and not on their achievements
-not having high expectations for all of them
-organizing a teacher-centered teaching

Stella, Greece

stellaspanougr — 2016-06-26 06:31:31 UTC

How to weaken students independence:
- Creating competition climate.
-Criticizing them all the time.
-Avoiding group work.
-Never accept new ideas from students.
-Punishing them for their mistakes.
-Not giving them motivation.
-Giving them really hard tasks.
-Talk, talk, talk and never listen.
-In general be the old teacher we all remember.

Evridiki Gkori, Greece

eurydicegkori — 2016-06-26 07:38:28 UTC

-focusing on negative behaviour or weaknesses
-not giving them space and time to express themselves
-not challenging them enough or challenging them too much
-talking and never listening
-making comparisons
-labelling, discriminating and not being fair to all
-not having high expectations from them
-not believing in them
-not caring about their interests and focusing solely on the curriculum

Astrid Hulsebosch

AstridVE — 2016-06-26 08:01:34 UTC

Let them explain things by theirselves, listen to them attentively
Eye contact and gentilness
Don't think your teacher answers are they only right answers

Miroslava Takeva, Bulgaria

newfoundland30 — 2016-06-26 08:12:44 UTC

One way of weakening students'independence is not allowing them to make mistakes. Learning through trial and error helps students build confidence that they may tackle a problem on their own. Stifling their creativity and not letting them express themselves the way that suits them best is also a sure way to discourage them from working independently.

Zuhal Ay Hamdan, Turkey

2016-06-26 09:05:46 UTC

How to weaken students' independence: I do agree with most of the reflections here, and below a few more reasons by me:
* Entering classroom with a negative mood and asking students "what did we do last time", knowing that most of them will not remember.
* Starting a class in a monotonous way, every time with the same talk, the same expressions
* Not explaining clearly the "to do list" and what they will achieve at the end of that class.
* Keeping talking and praising with the same studentsand legitimating others' sleeping in comfort during the class:)

Stavroula Lada, Greece

pde4424 — 2016-06-26 09:18:45 UTC

Inès Rosado, Catalonia

2016-06-26 10:04:25 UTC

As a primary teacher, I'm going to concentrate on how to create a primary classroom environment that supports students to become confident and independent learners:
· Designing speaking activities for everyone to succeed.
. Giving patterns to them if the activity requires them.
. Making them feel confident with the activity.

· Using lots of repetition because children need to do things many times. That makes them feel comfortable and help them to learn.

· Introducing short activities to keep their attention and interest. Remember that attention is the sharpest during the first 10 minutes. If the teacher speaks for more than that time, students will start to tune out.
How to weaken our students' confidence would be the opposite: giving difficult activities, only for the best students and doing long ones.

Anna Nervo, Italy

annina — 2016-06-26 10:12:03 UTC

Ana David, Portugal

ana_david1971 — 2016-06-26 10:51:12 UTC

Students confidence and independence can weaken with constant criticising, high expectations, distractions in the classroom, lack of group work and activities that are too difficult.

Besbes Zied, Monastir Tunisia

zbesbes — 2016-06-26 12:14:18 UTC

as a teacher, my method with student is always dialogue, discussion because teaching is not only course, we can open other subjects that students couldn't talk about... then we have a good relation which will active the classroom environment... them we can adjust student comportement and give them advises.. and finally learning courses..

Anna, Italy

pepe_anna — 2016-06-26 12:29:35 UTC

Defy and annihilate Students' goodwill and resilience is very easy to do. Don't show any interest in them and in what you do with them; always disapprove whatever they do; have a detached attitude; don't care of their interests or personality. This is the worst a teacher can do.

Clementina/Portugal

clemagui — 2016-06-26 14:15:53 UTC

There are many aspects that I could think of that limit the student. To better identify I'll think I'm a student.
What would make me feel bad or may not be free to say my opinion, here are some situations:
Supposing that the teacher ...
- If it ever was to correct what I say, (next time I would be afraid to speak wrong);
- If he got angry with me whenever I say something different from what he wanted to hear or if I did not realize what he was saying (the next time if I had not realized I have not dared to speak);
- If he punished me for wrong (next time would be silent);

- If he called me names or speak badly of my family, that is if he humiliate me (I was seriously rude);
- If he meddle me on the sidelines and not talk to me; - In these times and in this way I give up to do anything;
- If he had not encouraged me or tell me how "I'm doing very well, continues to work ..." and moreover encouraged my colleagues, I would feel bad.
These and many other teacher attitudes that do not value the least effort the student make in comparing the best student with the worst student in front of the class, are situations that have lower self-esteem of students, these students never believe who are able to do, they have doubts of their abilities and can not learn. Am I a teacher so bad for students? I do not believe, but sometimes I can not act in the best way ... I'm thinking how I will be.

Pedro Costa, Portugal

pedro_mmco — 2016-06-26 14:50:58 UTC

Increasingly there must be an excellent relationship between teachers and students. The creativity of the students should be valued and seen as a starting point to address the failures detected and what is not correct. To increase confidence, students must feel that they are all equal and capable and that the teacher is there to help achieve the objectives. The teacher must create a good personal and learning relationship, value the effort and commitment of students, listen and guide for the student to feel that the teacher is always present and to support it.

Maite Arias, Italy

2016-06-26 15:04:34 UTC

-Pointing out their mistakes without giving them a useful meaning.
-Never praising them.
-Not acknowledging their contributions.

To create a class environment that supports students:
-Even small contributions must be praised, it is only the beginning.
-Be relaxed about mistakes and take them as something that is natural to happen.
-Bear in mind every individual can give a positive contribution. Never make comparisons between students.

Mariella Fasanelli - Italy

fasanelli_mariella — 2016-06-26 15:09:59 UTC

Pupils' confidence can be weakened in many ways: by not remembering their names, by not preparing classes and regularly improvising them, by labelling kids sticking to those labels for whole school years, by doing the talking and leave them the listening, by thinking, as Mr. Gradgrind from Dickens's Hard Times did, that they are only pichters to be filled in with facts.

María Gallego- Spain

2016-06-26 15:29:07 UTC

There are a lot of ways to weaken students' resilience. For example, when we pay too much attention to mistakes and we don't praise their achivements, even if they aren't significant ones. We also have to focus on positive reinforcement

Luca Donato - Italy

luca_donato — 2016-06-26 16:08:22 UTC

Sometimes teachers' first care is about the objectives and not the real skills. We weaken our students' confidence when we don't understand that failure is an opportunity or when we don't pay too much attention (...they speack and we don't pay attention). We lost the opportunity to build students' independence if we don't reinforce their free initiative.

Arianna Pisapia from Italy

arix — 2016-06-26 16:13:43 UTC

Raül Pegueroles - Spain

2016-06-26 16:17:54 UTC

Not knowing our students (confusing names, ignoring their personal situation...)
Being too serious instead of smiling
Ignoring the effort that they made
Acknowledging their talents, their passions
Using of sarcasm
Being boring and severe
Being unfair
Not showing them the relevance of what they are doing
Correcting students continuously
Blaming them or yelling
Offending them, specially in public
Excluding or assigning them frustrating tasks
Giving them very negative marks
Using rude words/phrases
Being impatient, always in a hurry
Never giving them feedback
Focusing only on the negative aspects of their performance
Giving them extra work to punish a bad behaviour or bad results
Not giving a second chance

Mariella Brunazzi, Italy

2016-06-26 16:25:01 UTC

Here are some ways we may weaken our student's confidence and independence:
- ignoring them
- telling them they understand nothing
- humiliating them
- paying attention only to smart students
- making offensive comparisons
- highlighting mistakes and laughing at them
- never smiling or encouraging
- never taking into account weak students' abilities and competences
To support students to become confident and independent learners we should:
- involve everyone in the learning process
- highlight everyone's skills and competences
- help students give their contribution according to their abilities and potential
- praise each student's contribution to the learning process
- help students understand that failure is part of the process, not a fault
- scaffold learning
- build a supportive environment
- listen to your students, their opinion is important
- accept everyone's contribution and discuss it with the whole class or group
- give more than one chance to succeed
....

Renato Oliveira, Portugal

renat — 2016-06-26 16:58:22 UTC

Here are some ways we may weaken our student's confidence and independence:
- always point their mistakes and downplay their successes
- blame them
- yell at them
- not turn on when need attention
- not to notice when they are sad
- not give a second chance
- give attention always the same students
To support students to become confident and independent learners cornichons:
- scaffolded learning
- respect learning time differences
- to be kind
- hear them
- appreciate your efforts
- make believe they are able to fulfill the tasks proposed
- to be kind
- give confidence

2016-06-26 17:06:01 UTC

Elisabetta Cuccus, Italy
Let's weaken our students' confidence and independence:
-always praise the same students
-always blame the same students in public
-always point out their mistakes and never acknowledge their progress
-always ask more things than can be accomplished in a given time
-never make them cooperate
-always point out negative aspects of their work
-never smile...

Lena Rossiou, Greece

rossiou — 2016-06-26 17:17:40 UTC

Students' confidence and independence can easily be weaken
Some ways for it are: disappear creativity, set up low expectations for students, create a non-supportive school environment, ignore students' contribution, focus on failure and negative behaviours, criticise privately, discourage sharing, cooperating and students' open-minded thinking, build negative beliefs on students' abilities, use activities that students don't like, don't care if all students have the opportunity to success, ignore students' need to see the relevance between their learning and action, be "tired" to teach and sullen teachers and not enjoy being with students...

Angela Fenu -Italy

angelafenu61 — 2016-06-26 17:33:03 UTC

We certainly weaken our students' confidence by sticking to the negative (or positive) images of them we might have built.
When we are not flexible when we are not ready to evaluate and emphasise even the slight improvement our students may gain, we are doom ing them to be what they are, and what they have been since the beginning. If there is no intellectual "escalator" in our classes then we are doing a very bad

Rania Bekiri - Greece

raniabek — 2016-06-26 17:40:35 UTC

We weaken our students' confidence and independence when we answer all their questions at once! When we keep giving them help as soon as they are stuck with a problem. When we praise their excellent grades as if they are not allowed to make mistakes. This is not bad behaviour on our part, but does not show them how to deal with failures.

Silvia Gualdi

silvia_gualdi — 2016-06-26 17:57:24 UTC

It’s so easy to hurt a guy! Just don’t take care of him, don’t appreciate his efforts, don’t emphasize his progress. By following this course I’m learning a lot and I can understand and see how many mistakes I make in my teaching career. The importance of this course is that it make us reflect on our teaching style, a kind of reflection that usually we don’t do, because of a lot of work we have to do.

Donata, Ital

dmschiliro — 2016-06-26 18:58:24 UTC

I always thought that a good learning process should be built on solid foundations that go beyond the subject content. You learn better if you put the right conditions for learning. These bases for me are costitite the relationship of trust that students have towards their teachers and the trust that have to its capabilities. It 'clear that a teacher, that highlights the errors, that does not gratifies the students or even worse yelling is not a good teacher.Sometimes the teacher must also work on the family. Personally, I happened to have a pupil whose parents put in relief his every failure.

Teacher Dragana

2016-06-26 19:09:46 UTC

We can weaken our students' confidence when we criticise them all the time, focus on their mistakes, ask and answer questions without letting them figure it out on their own, etc.

Maria Papadaki, Greece

maria_agglika — 2016-06-26 19:12:42 UTC

Interesting article from edutopia

Ida B. Italy

2016-06-26 19:12:54 UTC

I hope 'll never forget to keep al the tips in the video in mind: it's not only about resilience, it's about success, at school in life, about setting your students out for success ;)

Maria Rosaria Sorrentino/Italy

mr_sorrentino — 2016-06-26 19:14:03 UTC

In my reality we often hurt our students’ feelings. They spend, not most of the time but … , all the time sitting at a desk for five hours a day! There is only one morning break from 9:50 to 10:00! This is why they aren’t familiar with team work. PBL is far away from this context and when I start PBL activities my colleagues become my enemies! Students often appear frustrated and frightened. Teachers frequently convince them of the fact that they don’t know anything!

I want my students to be involved, motivated and excited. I want them to try again and again but to do this they need the right environment that allows and permits them to be themselves and face challenges with the convictions that no matter what, they can make it. This will increase their self-esteem and learning process! Thank for offering me your support.

Evangelia Karagiannidou/Greece

ekaragia — 2016-06-26 19:34:36 UTC

We as teachers may sometimes 'weaken' our students' potential, confidence and independence by not believing in them! Let's try to reach out to them and build on relations by getting to know them better, their needs, their strengths and weaknesses and most importantly to support them 'constructively'! Give them breathing, living and growing space in the classroom! Invite flexibility and scaffolding, by all means!

Keratso Georgiadou Greece

keratsog — 2016-06-26 20:33:26 UTC

A teacher first of all must love his job and feel the size of the influence he/she has on thousands of children's lives due to his /her behaviour. Everything starts from this point. Every child when you get in a classroom needs your attention. Each of them looks at you and tries to find out if he/she has been identified, they wait from your smile, from your good words and encouragement. We must become the second pole in their lives after their family and we must think always that some of them dont have both their parents or even they bring problems from their houses unsolved trying to find a hand to hold them. Thus answering the question we must not be afraid to spend part of our sentiments for our students

Esther Rodríguez, Spain

erodr9 — 2016-06-26 20:42:55 UTC

In my opinion we can weaken our students confidence and Independence in several ways… I can see myself and most part of my colleagues assessing all the full learning process, taking the control of the whole process or trying to drive children to the right solution avoiding them to fail…

"Thinking in reverse" reveal new ideas to create a school climate which helps the confidence and achieve an autonomous learning and student-centered. We should build opportunities to discuss and reflect on their learnings, scaffold all the process but giving them “voice” , providing real world problems, using technology, going out the classroom or bringing experts to our classes, teaching them how to work together, helping them to know their strengths, their weaknesses and how to use them to learn , challenging and motivating them… and above all turning difficulties into advantages, encourage them to take risks and keep trying it… That’s the classroom environment I want.

Rita, Italy

blu_rita — 2016-06-26 20:46:30 UTC

How as teacher it is possible to provide the children with the tools they need to respond to the challenges of childhood and adolescence and to navigate successfully in adulthood. The teacher can develop the competence by empowering children to make decisions and helping children recognize himself or herself as a caring person.

Sofia Aroso, Portugal

sofia_aroso — 2016-06-26 21:36:51 UTC

As a teacher I can weaken my student's confidence and independence if:

- I’m always talking about their failures and never applause their conquers.

- I never let them fail and learn with their failures.

- I don´t treat them with love and respect.

- I transmit knowledge instead of teach them how to think and build their own knowledge.

Filipa, Portugal

filipamestevens — 2016-06-26 22:02:09 UTC

How to weaken student self-esteem and confidence…well, I have another story to tell…

As a student, when I was at elementary school (5th and 6th grade) I was really good at Arts. Teachers had boost my self-esteem and confidence with positive remarks about my work and about how was organized. Even my mom got astonished with that remarks!

In the 7th grade I went to Arts classes with that feeling. I love to draw and to do hand work. My first draw project was in A3 sheet and we have to draw three 1cm squares and fill them with the different soft and hard coal pencils. It was really hard for me because all the design process was full of measurements. We must leave so many inches from the boarder, and then draw a line, and after that line we should draw the squares exactly at another whatsoever cm from the pencil drawn line. I was so stressed about the measurements being accurate at the mm, that when I use the pencil to colour the squares I didn’t do it smoothly and you can see the lines.

As a review I have got the lowest grade that exist, all draw written with red pen, signing all the mistakes, and a huge message: « It was not to scratch, was to paint!». Of course that, from that day forward I hate the drawing classes and I just do things wrong. I get so nervous when I had some work to do that I only make mistakes…the paper glued on my hands, or I have used the wrong glue and eat part of my collage…was awful. The more I tried, the worst it became!

And was like that the all year…and at the next year the new teacher even asked my jobs to stay in school as an example…I wasn’t that bad!

So, you see…

What a red pen can do. The power of feedback is humongous. It take it all or give you the feeling that you can do it alone…

Besides that we, as teachers, as parents, as relatives, are always overprotecting our kids. They became afraid of everything. Even of their one shadow…we don’t let them fall or climb a tree because they might get hurt…and so what? They get up and learn what they did wrong!

At the same time we low our expectations about them and we become overwhelmed with anything that exceed that expectations. And we congratulate them. And gave them a reward by their effort. Sometimes they didn’t any effort. They just thought first and then answered…

So, we really must to think about our feedback process and how to create some obstacles to the kids…they will fall at first, but, if they are resilient enough they will keep going on and they will succeed.

Is just a point of view but…when I believe that a children is able to do a back roll and they don’t I push them real hard. At first I have to drive all the movement. And have to be sure that he will trust in what I am saying. So I help him. Then, I tell him that he was able, and ask them how did they felt? Did they believe that they will do what he just did? And tell him…I did. I know you are able to do it. And start to help less and less. When I feel that he is ok and is not going to hurt himself I let him do it alone. I tell him first that he will try alone but I will stand next to him just in case. And do that as many times as he needs to be self-confident that he is able. When he is ready, I let him go. And fly on their one.

António Faria, Portugal

a_nunofaria — 2016-06-26 22:19:34 UTC

On my ICT classes I challenge my students to do some projects they never done before. They start by thinking they can never accomplish them. Promoting just a bit of confidence and engage them to help each other’s has been a successful strategy. When finishing the projects, I ask them to write down an individual reflection of the all process and is great to see the confidence they gain when ending the task.

Angela Metallinou/Greece

2016-06-26 22:31:32 UTC

If I, as a teacher, am self -esteemed and fell confidence and am sure about what I want to give with my teaching attitude to my students, them I am sure they will develop to confident and independent students. As long as I am fine and content as a human being, everything in my classes will work as good and well...

Katerina Toubeki

toubaik — 2016-06-26 23:40:52 UTC

Greece
I can think of so many ways this could happen - they are some of the things I keep reminding myself to leave outside the classroom:
- lecturing them
- pointing out mistakes
- giving them solutions that others have provided
- giving them only ready information to memorize
- limiting their sources to schoolbooks

TeacherAngela Tarulli

dott_angela_tarulli — 2016-06-26 23:49:22 UTC

I have experienced that a classroom environment based on trust, empathy and mutual respect facilitates communication among peers and between students and the teacher for learning the educational content.

dott_angela_tarulli — 2016-06-27 00:07:31 UTC

MARCO PIANOTTI, ITALY

elisabettamargaria — 2016-06-27 05:25:08 UTC

How to weaken someone's confidence and Independence: -give him/her a negative label -.criticise him/her in public -but also overprotect him/her (he/she will become afraid of everything!!!)

Sophia Kouzouli, Greece

sophiakouz — 2016-06-27 07:03:00 UTC

Teachers can weaken students' resilience very easily without even realizing it!
When

they are ΝΟΤ willing to TOLERATE some DISCOMFORT and ANXIETY, some AGITATION or UNCERTAINTY to encourage their PUPILS to be CREATIVE.
they are not supportive enough
they do not have the same protective factors for everyone in class
they are not interested in establishing a positive environment in class and a meaningful relationship with them
they do not offer the opportunities and rewards for school involvement
they do not allow exploration
they are not patient enough
they are not a good role model
they make students anxious, stressed and depressed by being ironical, pessimistic and negative to them.

Cecilia D., Ital

2016-06-27 07:17:21 UTC

We as teachers can weaken our student's confidence and indipendence when we don't enjoy time spent with them, we criticise them in pubblic and we help them too much. We must teach with example

Maria Polychrona, Cyprus

maria_polychrona — 2016-06-27 07:31:40 UTC

Guilty as charged.
Sometimes is not answering or honoring their questions, setting too high goals or simplifying and predetermining everything to a tee, not adapting tasks to different learning needs and sometimes is just the odd random comment, that they take too personally and I can see it in their eyes.
Sometimes I take the time and effort to make amendment, sometimes I'm afraid I don't.

Thalia, Greece

thaleiavlachou — 2016-06-27 07:35:34 UTC

There are many ways in which a teacher can influence students' confidence and resilience either negatively or positively. Students resilience can weaken when a teacher doesn't set high expectations for everyone in the class, when he/she criticizes and makes negative comments about students' opinions and ways of thinking. Students cannot become independent learners when their teacher provides them all the work and the instructions they need to follow, when there is not enough time spent on communicating and sharing ideas and when each and everyone's unique abilities and needs are not taken into account.

On the other hand, students' resilience and confidence can be boosted by a supportive teacher who believes that all his/her students can achieve the very best. When students are free to choose their way of thinking and way of solving problems. When the teacher praises positive behaviour and original ideas. When it is clear to the students that it is fine to make mistakes because through them we learn and become wiser. A teacher has to act like a role model and create a safe, imaginative, positive, challenging and happy environment in the classroom.

Daniela C, Italy

invernizzifam — 2016-06-27 07:43:09 UTC

As teachers, we have lots of ways to weaken our students' resilience, with words and even with silences...Sometimes our way to look them is very discouraging, and we can't be unaware about this fact.

Elisabetta Margaria, Italy

elisabettamargaria — 2016-06-27 08:04:17 UTC

When a teacher want to "achieve the goal" of weaken his students, he can: -criticise them in public -give them a negative label -show them how little he believes in their ability... -...or how little he likes his work -but also overprotect them (they become afraid of everything!!!!

Adela Muresan, Romania

2016-06-27 08:50:02 UTC

STAGES
of cooperative learning

Orientation - consists in making schoolmaster for students to know, become acquainted with each other, to trust each other, discuss, the expectations they have.
Establish rules - an issue of accountability group, responsiveness to others, cooperation, consensus decision making, problem-solving.
Conflict resolution - occurring and are part of our lives. Students spend more time watching how others exercising power over them. They test the limits.
Productivity - group identity appears. Group cohesion is strong. Arise and conflicts but students are aware of the process and overcome conflict situations.
Fraying - students move from one group to another, leading to discomfort for some, because it must be reacomodeze with their teammates. But partnering with colleagues can provide new opportunities for sharing effective learning experiences.

Charalambos Aristidou, Cyprus

2016-06-27 09:11:00 UTC

The easiest way to weaken our student's confidence and independence is with negative criticism.

Luis Miguel Miñarro. Spain

lmminarro — 2016-06-27 09:11:15 UTC

It's really a bad experience when you don't know exactly what to do and only receive your marks but no explanation about how to do it better or how to improve. Sometime teachers tell the exams results in public or publish them in a list just to show they're very strict teachers

Monica Chifor, Romania

2016-06-27 09:34:40 UTC

Students' confidence can easily diminish as a result of teacher's and peers' comments. That is why we must never show them their weak points or make fun of their work. Instead we should encourage their independence and their critical thinking.

Tânia Pires, Portugal

taniac_mpires — 2016-06-27 10:48:24 UTC

Teaches can weaken the student's confidence by never smiling or encouraging and making only negative comments. The teacher should not only point out what is wrong at work because it destroys the confidence and the students determination. Others ways to destroy the confidence of students are humiliating them, paying attention only to smart students and making offensive comparisons.

Lúcia Tavares, Portugal

luciatavares6 — 2016-06-27 10:53:38 UTC

When we criticize most of the time in front of all class, be hungry all the time, show that we don´t like the time we spend with our students, the students will not enjoy our classes and will not feel confidence and independence in any project that we may give them.

Nube Purpurea, Italy

2016-06-27 11:04:34 UTC

One of the easiest way to weaken our students is to label them in a negative way and to convince them that nothing's gonna change by deleting hope and trust. We must work on their self-esteem: even listening and caring could be enough, but if we don't respect them we can't receive anything

Mária Bdžochová, Slovakia

maria_bdzochova — 2016-06-27 11:17:10 UTC

How to weaken our students‘ confidence and independence:

to be unfair
to correct students continuously
to give them bad assessment
to be nervous, impatient, often in a hurry
not to encourage talented students
not to praise students or to praise the same good students all the time
not to give clear instructions

The best ways to retain good teachers:

create a safe, positive work environment
be supportive
build trust
acknowledge their efforts
listen to them
make them feel valued and appreciated
have a culture of mutual respect

Ilaria Calvano, Italy

ladyrandal — 2016-06-27 11:25:34 UTC

Teachers can weaken student's confidence if always focusing on mistakes and never on progress; by critising a students publicly; by never giving the chance to engage in activities they love , in which they succeed. Even silence can hurt, when a student is down because of a failure. A teachen can weaken student independence never leaving space to students ideas, opinions, proposals; by conducting a lesson as a dictator reign; by focusing only about marks, never developing student awareness of the learning process.

Maria Pereira, Portugal

prof_majoper — 2016-06-27 12:35:50 UTC

How to weaken our student’s confidence and independence:

First of all is the injustice;
constantly criticizing the student;
not value the small successes that the student does;
not pay attention to student; lack of availability to clarify or support his anxieties and doubts;

not to encourage students.

Students need to see that the teacher likes his profession, which is available to monitor and care about them, try to be fair, strives for the success of all students and that values individual and collective achievements of the students.

Rasa, Lithuania

rasasad — 2016-06-27 13:30:33 UTC

I think that there are a lot of negative ways how we can destroy our students confidence and independence. For example, by setting too difficult goals, giving too much homework, making too many negative comments having bad relationships with students, being nervous, impatient, criticizing them, giving negative labels, and others.
But much more important things what and how to do that our students feel more confidence and independence.

Romina

rominatanzi — 2016-06-27 13:58:28 UTC

In my teaching subject (Maths), unfortunately it is simply to do this. For example if a teacher ask always at the same briliant students to do exercises to the blakboard and never to weak pupils..they will enforce the idea that Maths is not for them.

Sabrina Petrillo, ITALY

spwillothewisp9 — 2016-06-27 15:05:48 UTC

RUNNING THE RISK TO WEAKEN OUR STUDENTS' CONFIDENCE AND INDEPENDENCE
We teachers - often subconsciously - do not facilitate our students' resilience, a word borrowed from the "complex adaptive system" of the forests. So, effective strategies to avoid choking learners' resilience should aim at comparing human and ecological environments not treating pupils like "potted plants in greenhouses". Thence what isn't to be done either for plants or teenagers is: taking advantage of some students’ frailty in order to reinforce other ones’ self-esteem and not giving them any chance to try again if they fail. In fact, parading some groups’ skills and having “weaker” ones follow their example in a passive way means setting artificial environments where students are treated like ‘potted Plants in greenhouses’ not being allowed to develop their adaptability to the real world problems. Highlighting successful performances and implementing the removal from the group of students seen as impediments to the PBL project is even worse than showing a scarce level of patience and empathy towards one’s colleagues and participants in PBL projects. Last but not least, not appreciating their smallest progress may lead to permanent damages affecting their autonomy.

Caterina Musumeci,Sicily, Catania

musumecicaterin — 2016-06-27 15:25:59 UTC

Full Definition of resilience
1
: the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress
2
: an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.

First , I always encourage my students when they feel failure to the given task. Moreover , I let them free of choosing their mates when working on topics as a first attempt of collaborating together. In a further step, I might decide to divide them in well defined groups according to the level, but I prefer to mix them and try new collaborations. Something extraordinary always will happen!!!

Luciana, Portugal

lucianaalvesrios — 2016-06-27 15:39:38 UTC

When we approach a student we have to reflect on the importance of our words , especially when rebuke . Injustice is one of the adjectives which students complain , because of the way sometimes speak in the whole of a class.

Dora Romano, Italy

romanodora — 2016-06-27 15:52:36 UTC

Teachers can weaken student's confidence by leaving them alone to face their problems. Listening to them, giving them the tools to manage their own strength and weak points, will encourage them and increase their self consciousness and self esteem. In this way, teacher him/herself will be proud of goals achieved!

Krasimira, Bulgaria

2016-06-27 16:07:23 UTC

Teachers can weaken students' confidence If they don't encourage them to develop positive social relationships with each other and don't create supportive environment.

Daniela Leone, Italy

2016-06-27 17:06:41 UTC

May be the worst thing to weaken students confidence and independence is when we ourselves don't like what we do in the classroom.
If we show ourselves stressed, afraid of errors, and feeling meaningless what we do, our students will get the same mood.
This year I had a course with very poor human resources, but, being aware of past mistakes, I never let them know that I had low expectations. This effort ended in getting much more than I expected from them.

Ljubica

2016-06-27 17:46:20 UTC

Not having any kind of relationship with students is a good way to weaken students confidence. Cold and dull teaching, not paying attention to their needs and following their pace is not the feedback they need from us. And worst of all, being unfair is the most painful thing they need (they really do see it and feel it).

Emanuela Filippo, Italy

2016-06-27 17:52:05 UTC

In order to weaken, students' self confidence and indipendence, a teacher could be always in hurry, say at every lesson "This is very simple and only stupid persons cannot understand it", not encourage them because it is impossible that they will be successfull.

Saskia Michielsen, Belgium

saskiamichielsen — 2016-06-27 17:53:29 UTC

In order to weaken confidence you should really:
- offer no choices e.g. dyslectic kids have to write everything, the shy kid should present everything with a full audience etc.
- make inappropriate jokes about wrong answers
- never notice improvements - they can Always do a little better.

Frédérique MAIRE ; Ankara, TURKEY

2016-06-27 18:00:23 UTC

I think it is actually very easy to us as teachers to weaken our student's confidence and independence. Most students use us as a mirror to check their value, and a smile, or a grim, a smirk, a head turned, some silence, some specific or unspecific words can actually completely shatter them. We as teachers sometimes either forget the power we are holding upon our students, or sometimes even make use of this power in a way that makes us feel powerful... unfortunately, that does not usually turn out very well for the students !

According to me, a few ways to immediately make one or all the students bad, is to come to class in a bad mood, then snap at them, either look at them in a « mean » way, sarcastic way, even indifferent way ...The tone of our voice is very important too... I don't mean that we need to be chirpy all the time, but the kids need to know that our attitude will be balanced – this is also something that can completely unsettle them, as they would never know what mood to expect from us. Whenever I am very tired, or have a headache, I usually try to tell them upfront, so they know that the need to also pay attention to me, and that any of my reactions during this specific hour will be mainly because of the tiredness or headache.

Of course, always nagging that one student will usually not result in him/her getting better, and ignoring that other one either. Letting only the good students answer the questions will lead the others to feel both left out and stupid, and they will probably tend not to participate in class anymore... or do their homework, because, why do it if you're never going to be asked about it ?

However, always praising the students for the slightest effort or the slightest improvement will encourage them at first, but they will soon understand that not much is actually asked from them, will most probably feel that the teacher does not require too much from him/her « because anyway I'm stupid, I will never manage to reach a higher level ».

There used to be this experience in Canada or the USA I can't remember, where in a school, some teachers were told what to expect from the newly formed classes when they went back to school for a new school year. So, one was told his class was great, and the other that his class was made up with most of the hopeless cases in the school... guess what happened ? The behavior of the teachers was completely different, and the improvement of the classes were following this... the best class in fact became less successful than the less good class, as the teacher used either positive or negative reinforcement ! This sounds crazy, but it did happend and was actually scientifically recorded !

Well, enough for today,

Let's all keep in mind these very bad habits:-)

Antonia van Duijnhoven, the Netherlands

chanja — 2016-06-27 18:29:25 UTC

As teachers we play an important role in the daily life of our students. Our behaviour and attitude towards them affects them in more ways than we might think.
If you want to make them loose all hope and believe in their own abilities make sure to
-discourage them in every possible way
-tell them that they are useless, stupid and make sure to
-raise your voice and
-look at them without a hint of a smile on your face.
-Let them know that they should not ask stupid questions all the time and make sure that they
-shut up
-Don't ask them anything just tell them what to do and think
-Make sure they do not cooperate in any way and let them fail every test.
-And most of all don't care.
I am sure you will have the most discouraged, unmotivated students in your class.

Clarisse Pinão, Portugal

clarissepinao — 2016-06-27 18:34:41 UTC

The student/teacher relationship is a delicate one. The former is, in one way or another, constantly yearning for approval. When such is not given, for example, in a situation when the teacher mostly focuses on the negative aspects of the student's intervention, it contributes in a decisive way to lower the student's self-esteem and desire to think for himself or voice his thoughts in class and/or assingments. This leads to an unwillingness to discuss his doubts, and also diminishes the benefits that come from a wider range of opinions in a group, which is a great way of learning in class.

José Guerrero (Spain)

2016-06-27 18:42:26 UTC

We can weaken our students’ confidence in many ways:

· When we don’t appreciate the effort they make doing a task.

· When we don’t listen to them, to what they want to tell us. We sometimes hear, but we don’t really pay attention to their problems.

· When we focus only on the mistakes and the things they do wrong.

· When we forget what they really want to learn.

· When we focus only on the result not in the process to achieve a goal.

· When we forget their feelings.

We have to avoid all these “bad habits”. It is true that sometimes we are overwhelmed with our own problems, but we can’t forget that we are teacher and we are working with people.

Marianthi Athanasiadou, Greece

2016-06-27 19:03:04 UTC

being ironic
don't give students the chance for self-assessment
and all the other things dear participants wrote down.

Luljeta Koçi (Albania

2016-06-27 19:08:06 UTC

I have 16 years experience in teaching. During these years I had different classes and fifferent students.
When I work with new students I try to find their multiplied intelligences based in their rezults in tasks given. In tests I involve different questions for diferent competences . In evaluation phase I take care especialy for improve the reliscience in my students

Rita Fagiano, Italy

ritafagiano — 2016-06-27 20:01:58 UTC

A teacher can influence positively or negatively student indipendence and confidence. Some of the worst ways to weaken students' confidence and indipendence are criticizing them publicily, not encouraging them when they fail, focusing on their mistakes rather than on their successes, and so on. On the contrary, a teacher has to become a support for his/her students. He/she should help them, encourage their indipendence and confidence, help them to build up their self-esteem in an emphatetic context.

Lea Štiberc, Slovenia

lea_stiberc — 2016-06-27 20:29:15 UTC

Teachers have to awoid not to respect students, they have to awoid to be unfair, incorrect and unprofessional. Teachers have to show students that they care and try to avoid to judge and always to correct them. Teachers have to show students that we can learn from each other too. This could be some of the ways to weaken our student's confidence and independence.

Nikoletta UK

papnikole — 2016-06-27 20:51:19 UTC

3.2 Developing student Resilience
Sometimes, even we, the teachers make so many mistakes and we weaken our students' confidence. That can affect really bad their learning. As their teachers though we can help them to find their confidence again. We have a powerful influence on them. So we can make them feel proud of themselves and secure enough of what they learn and do with really simple teaching strategies. First of all, we give examples and then we show it in practise. We make sure to always express a positive attitude to all of our students. This will show them that we are on their side, and that they are worth our attention.

Also, we create opportunities for students to succeed by building on their strengths. If a student knows a lot of information about something, we ask them to tell about it. Asking students for their help is a great confidence boost to their ego. Plus we give the opportunity to them to choose what they want to learn because that can help them build their self-worth.

Lastly, we could offer praise and acknowledge students’ accomplishments , commenting positively and at the end adding what else we would like them to work.

Elena Sanesi, Italy

elesanesi — 2016-06-27 21:02:49 UTC

(i'm sorry, use a Google Traslade)
I teach for 35 years and I have learned so many things from my pupils . A times unwittingly we teachers do the " scratches " indelible in the students’ spirit . In addition to professional preparation, a good teacher must develop “empathy" ability to be of help to the personality’s development of students .

Ageliki Greece

2016-06-27 21:34:31 UTC

in order to weaken student's confindence we have to discourage them, to laugh with their mistakes, don't answer thein questions and of course don' t care for them at all

José Pereira, Portugal

jp_carper — 2016-06-27 22:06:36 UTC

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.

Daniela Millini

sep31to75oct — 2016-06-27 22:19:58 UTC

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.

Carmen Guidetti, Italy

2016-06-27 22:28:26 UTC

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....

Alexandra Ferrão

xanaferrao — 2016-06-27 22:44:45 UTC

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

Alina Kalopana, Greece

alkalopana — 2016-06-27 22:52:15 UTC

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!

Mário Relvas, Portugal

mariorelvas — 2016-06-27 23:13:45 UTC

“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.

Xana Sá Pinto, Portugal

xanasapinto — 2016-06-27 23:22:59 UTC

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.

Natália Neves, Portugal

natamaro_alneves — 2016-06-28 00:14:56 UTC

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.

Riham El-Ashry, Egypt

rihamelashry20132 — 2016-06-28 01:55:57 UTC

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

Riham El-Ashry, Egypt

rihamelashry20132 — 2016-06-28 02:00:15 UTC

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.

Nickie Liaropoulou, Gree

liaropoulou — 2016-06-28 05:59:58 UTC

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!

Rosanna, Italy

rosanna_galbiat — 2016-06-28 10:04:00 UTC

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.

Lisa, Italy

lisa_salzano — 2016-06-28 10:09:33 UTC

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.

Giampaolo, Italy

2016-06-28 10:45:09 UTC

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.

Jurate Orloviene, Lithuania

jurateorloviene — 2016-06-28 11:13:00 UTC

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.

Naděžda Nováková, Czech Republic

2016-06-28 11:32:34 UTC

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

Monika/Hungary

2016-06-28 13:48:34 UTC

"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,

Francesca C.

frccpz66 — 2016-06-28 15:02:28 UTC

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

Songül KURT/TURKEY

songulkurt_80 — 2016-06-28 16:22:21 UTC

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..

Manuel Naples, Italy

2016-06-28 17:00:50 UTC

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.

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.

2016-06-28 17:06:57 UTC

Lina Pereira, Portugal

2016-06-28 17:42:40 UTC

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.

Carmen, Italy

cdellog — 2016-06-28 17:57:06 UTC

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

Lucia Migliarini, Italy

miluci — 2016-06-28 18:27:02 UTC

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!

Maria Grazia, Italy

2016-06-28 18:32:29 UTC

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.

Miguel Ángel

mmarin77 — 2016-06-28 18:56:37 UTC

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.

Mariangela Larini, Italy

2016-06-28 19:41:40 UTC

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.

Alexandra Ballou, Athens Greec

alexballou12 — 2016-06-28 20:11:32 UTC

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

Anthippi Harou/ Greece

anthippi211 — 2016-06-28 20:45:48 UTC

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:

Emilia, Romania

Emilia_T22 — 2016-06-28 20:46:07 UTC

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

Lorenza italy

lorenza_masia — 2016-06-28 20:49:47 UTC

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.

Manana Jakeli, Georgia

mmmjakeli — 2016-06-28 20:59:10 UTC

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.

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

2016-06-28 21:11:18 UTC

Eleftheria Andreou, Cyprus

eleftheria_and — 2016-06-28 21:38:20 UTC

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.

Rosa Macieira, Portugal

2016-06-28 21:40:41 UTC

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.

Simone /Italy

biondasimone — 2016-06-28 21:51:04 UTC

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!"...

Daniela illini

sep31to75oct — 2016-06-28 23:24:14 UTC

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

Evangelia Evmorfopoulou, Greece

2016-06-28 23:43:00 UTC

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

Anna Pastorino

pastorino_anna — 2016-06-29 03:54:48 UTC

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

Cristina/Pisa, Italy

2016-06-29 04:48:08 UTC

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!!

Paola Arduini, Rome, Italy

2016-06-29 06:45:26 UTC

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.

Rosário Félix

mrlfaria — 2016-06-29 07:15:35 UTC

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.

Agnese, Italy

agnese_pianigia — 2016-06-29 07:18:51 UTC

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.

Federica (Italy)

2016-06-29 07:37:35 UTC

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"

Daniela Usmiani/Croatia

ddanci — 2016-06-29 07:50:59 UTC

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.

Margarida Almeida, Portugal

2016-06-29 07:56:04 UTC

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.

Maria Llopart, Spain

2016-06-29 09:38:04 UTC

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.

Karolina, Spain

2016-06-29 09:44:22 UTC

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.

Maria Gabriella from Italy

gabriellataurina — 2016-06-29 10:03:54 UTC

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.

Stefania Nonino,Italy

user_noninost — 2016-06-29 10:14:56 UTC

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

Barbara zandraveli, Greece

varzantrav — 2016-06-29 10:57:06 UTC

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 " ???

Jose Teixeira, Portugal

joatx74 — 2016-06-29 11:10:32 UTC

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.

Alessandro Tonelli, Italy

2016-06-29 12:11:03 UTC

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.

Popescu Mihaela,Romania

2016-06-29 12:34:26 UTC

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.

Maria Georgiadou, Greece

mariageorgiado2 — 2016-06-29 12:43:15 UTC

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!

Marina Molla, Greece

mollamarina — 2016-06-29 12:59:01 UTC

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

Panagiota Papaioannou, Greece

2016-06-29 13:02:03 UTC

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 !

Maria Tsiamtsiouri- Greece

matsi14 — 2016-06-29 13:44:37 UTC

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.

Maria Amalia Vergoula, Greece

maria_amaliav — 2016-06-29 13:49:08 UTC

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

Melissa

melissa_scommegna — 2016-06-29 14:10:20 UTC

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

Ana Cristina Carmo, Portugal

2016-06-29 14:33:18 UTC

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.

Angela Bertolini- Italy

angela_bertolini — 2016-06-29 15:58:05 UTC

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.

Costanza Boresi, Italy

costanzaboresi — 2016-06-29 16:16:03 UTC

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.

Laura Tudose

lauragorgani — 2016-06-29 17:19:24 UTC

Romania
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.

Stefania Costanzino, Italy

steffco77 — 2016-06-29 18:09:10 UTC

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.

Josefina Martín, Spain

2016-06-29 18:21:44 UTC

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.

Teresa Fernández de la Vega, Spain

tfernandezdevega — 2016-06-29 18:44:44 UTC

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.

Aoife McDonnell-Ireland

aoifemcdonnel — 2016-06-29 18:51:10 UTC

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.

Brigitta Koncz

2016-06-29 18:58:05 UTC

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!

Suzanne Madden, UK, EUROPE

2016-06-29 19:16:54 UTC

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.

Eleni Argyriou, Greece

elenargy — 2016-06-29 20:00:18 UTC

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

Cristina Parente, Portugal

CrisParente — 2016-06-29 20:11:16 UTC

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”.

Carme Masdevall (Spain)

2016-06-29 20:31:29 UTC

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.

Ivana, Italy

Ivana91 — 2016-06-29 20:31:36 UTC

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.

ROSA MEDEIROS, PT

rosamedeiros — 2016-07-01 17:07:04 UTC

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...

Dubravka Crnic, Croatia

dubravka_crnic — 2016-07-02 08:20:54 UTC

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.

Recep Batur, Turkey

recepbatur — 2016-07-02 23:44:20 UTC

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.

Rossana Maglia, Italy

Rossana55 — 2016-07-03 20:06:04 UTC

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.

Raquel, Spain

rachelsan — 2016-07-03 22:03:17 UTC

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.

Raquel, Spain

rachelsan — 2016-07-03 22:04:57 UTC

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.

Artemis, Greece

arty31072 — 2016-07-04 10:00:38 UTC

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.

cristina, italy

cristina_casanova — 2016-07-04 16:21:52 UTC

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

Federica, Italy

federica_armani — 2016-07-05 11:41:52 UTC

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.

Vaidute Mazeikiene, Lithuania

vaidu2te — 2016-07-05 11:55:25 UTC

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.

Sara, Italy

saraderogatis — 2016-07-05 15:18:45 UTC

IDEAS TO ENCOURAGE ACTIVE STUDENT LEARNING

emilia, Italy

cacciemi — 2016-07-05 16:15:27 UTC

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.

Elen Soti, Athens, Greece

elensotiro — 2016-07-05 21:40:33 UTC

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

Maria Cristina, Italy

mctofoni — 2016-07-06 06:10:49 UTC

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.

Johanna Chardaloupa, Greece

johanna_gr1 — 2016-07-06 21:28:18 UTC

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!

Maria- Italy

francescaferraro22 — 2016-07-07 18:47:01 UTC

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.

Luisella

luisella_mori — 2016-07-07 20:51:26 UTC

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.

Massimo, Italy

contimassimo_tv — 2016-07-10 09:23:18 UTC

- 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.

mariamanuela_valentim — 2016-07-23 15:26:58 UTC

Manuela Teixeira-Portugal
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