Giving Feedback
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Reflective Questions for “The Elusive Art of Feedback” session:
1. List 3 – 5 situations in which you have recently given feedback to your students. What kind of feedback was it?
2. Why can giving feedback be a difficult experience?
3. What are the most important features of effective feedback?1.-Vocabulary,grammar, pronunciation, spelling, verb tenses
2.-It can be difficult if we are not fully aware of the tudents´needs, concepts are not fully understood and we provide complicated and answers.
3.-Clear and practical explanations which fit with the student level of linguistic and grammatical understanding and which provided direct associations with the grammatical, linguistic patterns studied.Reflective Questions for “The Challenge of Saying it Right” session:
1. The following feedback, given to a student who was late for a meeting, is not acceptable:
“You never think about how your behaviour is affecting other people. I don’t believe you are that forgetful, you’re just selfish! You never think of others! You simply don’t value my time!”
Why is this feedback not acceptable? How could you improve it?
2. What is the connection between relationship and feedback?1- Even without knowing the exact nature of the meeting, this kind of feed back is totally unacceptable in an educational contex of any kind and level.It humiliates the student, diminishes his responsible nature, makes the student feel guilty and responsible for what other feelings students might or might not have. The person scolding the students is simply speculating at what others might think or feel and personalises everything without a solid base to stand on.
The tone is out of proportion and far too familiar. It looks more like the kind of explosive rant that some parents of idle teenagers would produce once they have had enough of their behaviour and waste of time.Regarding your late coming to the meeting,I am sure you have had a good reason for being late.Bearing in mind that today’s meting was an important one and being on time was essential, I was very concerned, when I did not see you, in case you had forgotten about it.Your participation and contribution was expected by the rest of the students and also by myself. I am very much aware that all my students, including you, and myself value the time dedicated to the study and how important punctuality is for all of us. I am sure that when the next meeting takes place, you will double check the time on your diary.
2. According to the feedback activity I have tried to improve, and from my own perspective, this feedback tries to imply a conciliatory tone and addresses the points in an indirectly manner without using offensive and incriminating expressions, presents the facts in a more euphemistic way, or should I say embellishing what is being said without making the student feel guilty and giving him a certain stature in front of the teacher..The feedback addresses the fact that he is an important part of school life and his participation is of paramount importance to the rest of the students and the teacher.
Project Zero by Harvard University
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/who-we-areYou can find many useful resources and ideas that you could use in your classroom =)
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