{"id":2015,"date":"2021-11-09T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2021-11-19T17:09:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:09:46","slug":"the-power-of-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/the-power-of-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kslnewsradio.com\/1954456\/praising-students-works-better-than-scolding-study-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A recent study<\/a> by researchers at Brigham Young University found that middle-school students respond more to praise than criticism, especially when it comes to curbing problem behaviors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By focusing on praising desired behaviors <em>at least as much<\/em> as reprimanding undesirable behaviors, teachers were able to improve overall class conduct by up to 70%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, this no-cost technique can result in significant improvement without any financial burden. That&#8217;s something all educational administrators should love!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by researchers at Brigham Young University found that middle-school students respond more to praise than criticism, especially when it comes to curbing problem behaviors. By focusing on praising desired behaviors at least as much as reprimanding undesirable behaviors, teachers were able to improve overall class conduct by up to 70%. In other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[343,345,324,344,342],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brigham-young-study","tag-curt-gresseth","tag-instructional-strategies","tag-middle-school","tag-praise","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}