The following guidelines will help you use this kind of language to highlight a variety of student strengths: their skills, their attitudes, or the process they used to do an assignment, form teams at recess, or sort out who will sit where at the lunch table.
- Name concrete, specific behaviors.
- Use a warm but professional tone.
- Emphasize description over personal approval.
- Find positives to name in all students.
- Name progress.
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