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Giving Feedback Research

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Giving feedback, whether it is good or bad, can be challenging in any situation. As adults, most of the time we can understand where a person is coming from when they are giving us feedback. We either take the information and do better or we get upset and debate it. But this it is not the same with young. Young children are more sensitive to feedback, especially when it come something they have created. Feedback can cause a child to like or dislike something, this is why it is vital for child care teachers to, as the well-known phrase state, “chose their words wisely”. In this paper, we will review feedback give on five works of art done by children ranging from the age two to six-years-old.
The first work of art was composed by a two-year old little girl. The picture consists of various strokes of lines and dots. There are straight lines, curved lines, lines that loop, and sharp lines …show more content…

I started off by using correct art terms. For example, as the two-year-old drew her series of line, I made mention of the different lines she was displaying in her art work. Another example was with the five-year-old’s artwork I made mention of the rectangles she used to draw her table and vases. The next thing I did was label some of the actions being performed. For example, as the four-year-old was coloring in her “bubble letters” I labeled how she was using a mixture of colors to color in the letters. Two other major things I did when I was giving feedback was I encouraged all of the children to talk about their artwork and to explain the process they use before, during, and after the artwork to complete. A few things adults should remember when they are giving feedback to young children is, process is more important than product, our views of what an object looks like is totally different from that of a young child, and you want to encourage not discourage young children in their life

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