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The most recent additions to our video library focus on the skills that contribute to successful teamwork. One of the most essential is how teams communicate criticism and feedback.

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Explanation Notes

This video, like others in the teamwork series, adds a new element to the style of Common Craft videos. As you'll see, we're using simple faces, hands, and vivid colors to represent people. Overall, it's a simpler presentation and creates a more inclusive experience.

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Imagine a group of students working together on a project. Each team member must share their work and have the rest of the team provide feedback. How this feedback is delivered and perceived is critical and may decide the fate of the team. When feedback is constructive, the team can be successful. When it’s destructive, the team may fall apart. 

The question becomes: how do you teach constructive criticism and feedback? It’s a challenge because it’s not simply a set of skills, but a perspective. Once someone sees the big picture and how to be constructive, they can apply it in meaningful ways.

This is why we produced the video, “Constructive Criticism and Feedback Explained”. We believe that teamwork is both essential and difficult to explain. By playing this three-minute video for your audience, you can get everyone on the same page with the right perspective, and build a solid foundation for your teaching.  

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For a limited time, we are offering this video, “Constructive Criticism and Feedback” as a digital download with a Forever License. This means the video is yours to keep with unlimited views and no future obligations. We even get you started with a lesson plan! You can:

• Add it to presentations
• Upload it to Google Classroom or your class LMS
• Display it in classrooms and online meetings
• Use it anywhere you teach

There is no mystery. You can watch the entire video (with a watermark) before purchase. The download includes:

• Constructive Criticism and Feedback (.mp4)
• Constructive Criticism and Feedback, with captions in English (.mp4)
• Lesson Plan with quiz and discussion questions (.pdf)

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This video, our 115th title, is now available for embedding, downloading, or streaming in the Common Craft video library. It's just over three minutes and the third in a series that includes Working as a Team and Constructive Criticism / Feedback.

What it Teaches:

Critical thinking is a skill that can be learned and applied to almost any situation. This video tells the story of a team who uses critical thinking in a robot building competition. It teaches:

• The difference between an active and passive thinker
• Why critical thinking matters and how to apply it
• Why success depends on high quality information
• How to use critical thinking to identify the best information
• How a team can anticipate future issues

Note: Each Common Craft video comes with a lesson plan that makes teaching easier. Curious? Download the lesson plan for the video above (PDF).

Recent Common Craft Videos

We now have 115 explainer videos in our library. Each video is designed to explain a subject clearly in a few minutes. Common Craft videos can help save time in your classroom, course, training session or presentation. Here are the most recent additions:

• ​Constructive Feedback/Criticism​
• ​Working as a Team​
• ​Online Harassment​
• ​Clear Communication in Presentations​
• ​Disinformation

All Common Craft videos can now be watched in full, with a watermark. To use the videos in your teaching, consider membership or purchasing video packs.

This video, our 114th title, is now available for embedding, downloading, or streaming in the Common Craft video library. It's just over three minutes and the second in a series that began with Working as a Team.

Watch it in full for a limited time.

What it Teaches:

How team members approach criticism and feedback can make a big difference in their success. This video explains how a team can use constructive criticism and feedback to accomplish a goal. Using a story about a robotics competition, this video teaches:

• The difference between constructive and destructive criticism
• How to provide feedback that is helpful and useful
• Why it is important to focus on a person’s work and not their personality
• How a team can be successful using constructive criticism and feedback

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Note: Each Common Craft video comes with a lesson plan that makes teaching easier. Curious? Download the lesson plan for the video above (PDF).

Recent Common Craft Videos

We now have 114 explainer videos in our library. Each video is designed to explain a subject clearly in a few minutes. Common Craft videos can help save time in your classroom, course, training session or presentation. Here are the most recent additions:

• Working as a Team
• Online Harassment
• Clear Communication in Presentations
• Disinformation
• Academic Databases

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We serve a wide variety of educators and organizations around the world. If you match one of the roles below, click this link to learn more about how people like you use our videos:

• Teachers and Librarians
• Homeschoolers
• Corporate Trainers
• Course Creators and Website Owners
• Individual Learners

This video, 113th title, is now available for embedding, downloading, or displaying via the Common Craft video library. It's a part of our series on study skills and meant to help educators teach the concept of team work.

Watch it in full for a limited time.

What it Teaches:

Using an example of a robot building competition, this video follows the story of two teams with different approaches to teamwork. Using their example, we can see what works, or not, for winning the competition. It teaches:

• What all successful teams have in common
• Why clear communication is more important than skills or experience
• How to develop a sense of team strengths and weaknesses
• Why some teams don’t succeed
• What teams can do to improve their weaknesses

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Note: Each Common Craft video comes with a lesson plan that makes teaching easier. Curious? Download the lesson plan for the video above (PDF).

Do Projects Really Need Management?

If you've worked on a team at work or at school, you've seen how projects can evolve into chaos. Our goal with this video (recommended by Common Craft members) is to outline the basics of how projects are managed by professionals. Using their techniques, almost any project, at school or work, can be more efficient and effective.

Watch Project Management Basics:

What it Teaches

This video follows the story of a team who works together to build a prototype for an upcoming meeting at work. Thanks to a project manager, they are able to align their work efficiently and complete the project with limited time, budget and resources. It teaches:

• Why project management matters in getting things done
• How project managers help plan and align the team’s work
• Why project scope (time, budget and resources) matters
• How project managers work with stakeholders
• How the basics of project management can be applied to other types of projects.

Watch the video on CommonCraft.com.

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• Cyberbullying
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