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RE: Instructing Tips

To: "'Kelly, Katie'" <kkelly@spss.com>, ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Instructing Tips
From: Navid Kahangi <navid@interwoven.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:32:18 -0800
You mean with all that's going on inside the car, you need to keep count of
your positive vs. negative comments too?!?!?  Do you have to maintain the
5:1 ratio going all day, or can you make up for all the bad comments at the
end of the day?  If you yell at your student, is 5 positive comments going
to be sufficient to make up for it?  I think not!

--Navid

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly, Katie [mailto:kkelly@spss.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 9:05 AM
> To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Instructing Tips
> 
> 
> If you're nervous about instructing, I gleaned some good 
> information at the
> pool this morning regarding this very topic.
> 
> The positive to constructive criticism ratio must be 5:1.
> 
> This is correct. For every piece of constructive criticism 
> you offer, you must
> included FIVE things that your student is doing well.
> 
> This was all researched through Stanford University, and 
> unfortunately, I
> cannot remember the name of the website that presents this 
> information, but I
> consider this good stuff to know. I thought maybe it was 1:1, 
> or 2:1, but 5:1?
> All I can say is, if I were a student, I'd feel really good 
> about that. When
> you feel good about what you're doing, you're more receptive 
> to making changes
> to make yourself do even better.
> 
> We were actually talking about swim coaches, and what works 
> best for swimmer,
> but I can't see why this wouldn't work for anything else.
> 
> See, I can talk about autocross, too. Neener neener.
> 
> Katie K.

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