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Unless you want to be a food critic, you should probably know how to give constructive feedback that doesn't leave people feeling dead inside.

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Critiquing your classmates can be tough on the one hand you want to

00:17

help improve your classmates work on the other hand you don't want to hurt [student at the front of class giving a presentation]

00:20

anyone's feelings and make them leave the room crying luckily we figured out

00:24

some guidelines that will help you give constructive criticism and if you agree

00:28

you can tell us constructively of course so the first part of constructive [a woman giving tips to students sat at a table]

00:33

criticism is to not hold back if you see something that needs revising when

00:37

you're looking over your friends work be sure to take notes on anything that's [a boy meticulously studying another students work on a PC screen]

00:41

incorrect so you can tell them later remember the point of constructive

00:44

criticism is to make the work better so even if it's tough your friend needs to

00:48

hear the things that are wrong a whole bunch of encouraging thumbs up might

00:52

feel good to receive but they're not all that helpful however it's a good idea to

00:56

give a couple of thumbs up just to make sure to point out some of the good

01:00

things that are happening by mixing your criticism with some praise your critique [highlighted good points of another students work]

01:03

is much more likely to be heard and accepted that said if your friend didn't

01:07

actually do any work and just gives you a rock with a bunch of scratches on it

01:10

it'll be hard to find too many good point maybe suggest not too heavy it's [a boy with his arms folded looking upset]

01:14

also very important to offer a suggestion for improvement with each

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critique each time you find a problem with your friends work chances are

01:21

there's going to be a solution out there and if you help to find that solution

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your critique will be incredibly helpful last but not least remember to be kind [Dino pointing to tip #4 on a chalkboard]

01:29

it's hard enough having your work criticized by others and it's even

01:32

harder if the person isn't nice about it put yourself in their shoes and think

01:35

about how you'd feel of you were getting a similar critique oh but don't actually [a boy crying reading a critique of his work]

01:39

put yourself in their shoes you might need to critique the work of people with

01:42

smaller feet than you and you're not helping anyone if you break their shoes

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