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Today we are talking about the right and wrong way to praise a child and how praise affects the future of our children. We will also talk about the reward system at Palme School.
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- How to encourage the right way and what the research says.
- Like we do.
How to encourage the right way and what the research says.
Why it's important.
Back in 1998, American scientists conducted research. It studied how praise affects a child's motivation. It found that if you praise a child for effort and action, he or she learns to strategize, is less afraid of making mistakes, and practices the subject more.
But if you praise a child for "fixed" character traits, such as "how smart you are!", the child may rely on the fact that he or she cannot control his or her progress. So practice and new skills are harder for the child.
Children form these attitudes quite early in life. In 2013 the same Americans researched the age at which praise begins to affect a child.
The experiment involved children 14 to 38 months old and their parents. Scientists studied the same children five years later. The findings were similar to the first study: if children are praised for their efforts, they develop attitudes to act, make mistakes, practice and try again.
And importantly, proper praise builds a child's character from the age of one year old.
How do we praise the children at Palme School?
- In group classes, we still take an individualized approach and highlight the merits of each student.
- We only focus on action and effort to build an attitude in students that each of them can achieve cool things.
- We have developed a system of incentives for Palme. She looks like this:
- In class, teachers give Palms (extra points) for attendance, extra questions, creative expression, pair and group work.

- Scores are reflected in each student's personal account.


- Students collect points and move on to the next leagues
- And for moving to a new league in the personal account, students receive different gifts: puzzle sets, games, puzzles.
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