Which statement you would agree THE MOST and why (please elaborate and justify)? The teacher should:

a) Praise conditionally and celebrate the students’ learning achievements ONLY when they meet or exceed the teacher’s academic learning benchmarks;

b) Praise conditionally the students ONLY for their efforts to do or to exceed the teacher’s assignments and requirements;

c) Some combination of a) and b);

d) NOT praise the students since the success is the norm, BUT PUNISH them when they fail — to promote the students’ learning from their mistakes;

e) NOT praise or punish the students at all, while expecting that the students will naturally be rewarded or punished by the results of their own activities to avoid dependency on an arbitrary external authority and to promote the inherent rationality;

f) Always praise and celebrate the students’ achievements — praise meaningfully by noticing, recognizing, validating, and admiring the students’ strengths, present in their work (so-called “a strength model”);

g) Praise and admire the students unconditionally for any kind of work or its absence to accept the students by who they are and not by what they do;

h) NOT praise the students at all to avoid patronizing but rather share the life-achievement moments, important for the students, only when the student invites the teacher for that;

i) Other? (please describe)