TEACHER RESOURCE
True Colors
BLUE
• Accepting them for who they are.
• Reassuring them of their self-worth.
• Providing personal recognition for
accomplishments.
• Providing opportunities to
demonstrate creativity.
• Providing opportunities to please
those in authority.
• Creating a harmonious working
environment with opportunities to
maintain it.
• Providing opportunities to use their
communicative abilities.
• Providing cohesion in their
learning, home, and work
environment
• Providing opportunities to motivate
and add enthusiasm to group
situations.
BLUE
• Broken promises
• Too much negative criticism
• People talking about them behind
their backs
• Not discussing what is occurring
• Completing paperwork as priority
• Clock-watching
• Conflict
• Insincerity
• Lying
• Rejection
• Lack of social contacts
• Placing “the system” as a priority
before the people in it
• Being constantly compared to
others
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GOLD
GREEN
• Providing in all life
• Assisting them in
situations.
choosing tasks that are
• Providing clear and
difficult, challenging,
specific feedback on
and potentially
behavior and endeavors.
successful
• Setting definitive rules, • Providing feedback on
regulations, and
the quality of their
constraints.
work.
• Honoring evidence of
• Providing
success with concrete
opportunities to increase
rewards.
knowledge and to build
• Providing opportunities competence.
to demonstrate
• Recognizing their
responsible conduct.
successes.
• Providing opportunities • Providing
to be of service to others. opportunities to build
• Providing opportunities logical processes.
to demonstrate leadership • Providing
qualities.
opportunities to display
• Providing opportunities their competency.
to organize people and/or • Giving them
things.
opportunities to plan
• Accepting them as an
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