A friendly reminder, from a teacher:
Reward the behavior you want to see.
Even if it's not when you wanted it. Even if it's not as great as you were hoping for. Even if the person who's doing it metaphorically shat the bed before.
People learn from doing stuff. That's kinda the whole point of school. But the part they don't tell you outside of teacher training is that people learn *two* things when they do something:
1. How to do the thing you're asking them to do.
2. Whether it was worth the effort and risk of doing it.
This is why they teach us not to say "this is great" or "this isn't any good" as part of project feedback, but rather, "you did great work here" or "you didn't put in the effort you needed to." The first set of responses only speak to Item 1 people are learning.
The second speaks to both.
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