Moderately High Skill/High Self-Esteem

     When teaching students who have acquired a moderately high skill level and who have good self-esteem and self-confidence, the instructor should strive to provide as little feedback as possible.  In fact, often these students may become frustrated with too much feedback because they believe they know the information and think the instructor is not recognizing this level of knowledge.  Given that the student recognizes the performance errors, the instructor needs to help the student focus on making the transition between the recognition and making corrections.  This can be a teaching process of helping the student develop a plan for correction.  If at times the student does not recognize an error in the performance, the instructor can then help the student develop recognition by asking specific questions regarding that aspect of the student's performance.
     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 and to self-correct errors in order to reinforce this ability.