Medium Skill/High Self-Esteem

     When teaching students who have acquired a medium skill level and who have good self-esteem and self-confidence, the instructor should help the student learn to assess errors by asking specific questions about the performance.  Once the student has identified the errors, the instructor show the student how to correct the errors.  
     For these students, praise should be given on an intermittent reinforcement schedule which is to praise on a periodic basis rather than for every performance.  This allows the student to develop more intrinsic motivation for the performance.  Praise can be focused on specific skills to reinforce the student's accurate performance of those skills.  In addition, praise should focus more generally on their ability to recognize errors in order to reinforce this ability.