Navid, you ask some really good questions (1), showing your deep insight into
the the minds of most students (2). I think you'll go very far as an instructor
(3), which wouldn't surprise me, because you're such a good driver, too (4). I
think anyone would be very lucky to have you as an instructor (5), but you can
be a real smart-ass sometimes (1).
Katie
-----Original Message-----
From: Navid Kahangi [mailto:navid@interwoven.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:32 PM
To: Kelly, Katie; ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Instructing Tips
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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