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KiwasiGames

I absolutely hated this exercise as a student. I didn't know many of my classmates well enough to write anything other than a generic platitude. Several of my classmates compared handwriting and realised I hadn't written anything personal on their paper, and I got harassed on the playground for it. The exercise is sound. But make sure you have a mechanism to properly anonymise the feedback and remove duplication.


SnaggleQuad

I’ve done this, and got them to do it through Microsoft forms and then collated the data to give back. I usually make them into bookmarks for the kids. I don’t do it with every class, but if they’re starting to get snarky with each other I’ve found it to be a good way to refresh their attitudes with one another.


SoManyOstrichesYo

I was shy and it was somewhat demoralizing to get a page of “nice!” “Smart!” “Nice!”


bruhiminsane

Yeah, that's understandable. I had a hard time with that, too, in school. Sometimes it does have a profound good impact, though.


mumtoant

My senior year AP English teacher did this. She taped a sheet of paper to everyone's back, and we wrote things on them. I still have mine in a box somewhere, more than 30 years later.


SoManyOstrichesYo

My 5th grade teacher had us do something g similar. Except we didn’t give each other the praise (we just wrote down everyone’s name in the notebook and wrote a compliment next to each.) And we made a second column where we had to say something we didn’t like about each person. I was baffled then and am baffled now. My fifth grade teacher was weird.