You Might Be Mythtaken

Meme I made When it comes to feedback, the quality of it is key. There's a wide array of types and flavors, and not all are useful to the person receiving it. This week I read How to Give Students Specific Feedback That Actually Helps Them Learn and How to Craft Constructive Feedback . They focused on how to give good feedback- observe, describe, suggest. Which, to be honest was just how I thought you gave feedback. You let them know what you are seeing from the page, then let them know how you think that affects the character or how the work is doing, and then you suggest a way to resolve it. You tell someone what they're doing well so they can know what works, let them know what you got from it in case it came across all wrong, and suggest areas that could be improved upon in a kind way. Like "I think the setting could use a little work here" "there isn't really a sense of space to make your dialogue go to the net level". Basically, I was though...

When I started looking at the articles about feedback, specifically perfectionism, I was a little... well, not shocked, to see a lot of my personal traits listed.  Meme I made on memegenerator.net  The article 14 Signs Your Perfectionism Has Gotten Out of Control rattled off a list that was unnervingly close to my own personal traits. I tend to procrastinate. I am critical of myself and others. I do have a typically not do things that I think I could fail at. I always think that whatever I have accomplished is only a step towards a greater goal, something more, because it is never enough. I want to be excellent at everything, and average just doesn't cut it. I like grades because they are a measure of success that doesn't change. And I do have my fair share of good old fashioned Catholic guilt. The article claims that I should open up and be more vulnerable.  But I looked at the article Recalibrating the Perfectionist Mind for more information. They speak of perf...