The activity is widely applicable and can be easily adapted to different lessons.
Classroom applications:
- Visual culture: giving brief, specific praise for each other’s drawings and making subtle suggestions.
- Language and literature: evaluating compositions, stories, or reading of short texts with a few positive comments and a suggestion for improvement.
- Techniques and design: quick feedback on finished projects (what went well, what could be improved).
- Environmental science: giving simple, supportive feedback after group posters or presentations.
- Math: brief evaluation of solutions (“it was a good idea to try it this way,” “you could try something else”).
Extracurricular/social applications
- In class community-building situations where the goal is to strengthen a positive atmosphere. For example: sitting in a circle, each child praises the person sitting next to them for a small thing (“I liked that you helped your classmate today”).
- At the end of project work, to acknowledge each other’s contributions. For example: groups briefly highlight one strength each (“You helped a lot with your ideas”).
- In short daily routines, such as morning or evening circles. At the end of the day, one child praises a classmate in one sentence for something they noticed that day.
- Any other school or community achievement.