Feedback Strategies Thoughts: Week 3

For Week 3 Feedback Strategies, we are reading articles on giving feedback. The two articles I read are:

• Be a Mirror 
• Specific Feedback that Helps Learning

I picked these two because they look interesting and helpful, and I wanted to learn a little more about giving specific feedback, because at least I've noticed before that that seems to be the best kind of feedback to give.

For the "Be a Mirror" article, I learned that people can often progress at different paces because of theri beliefs in their own abilities. And when they believe they can grow those abilities, instead of remain static, they often use more problem solving and other tools to do the best they can. Soa  big takeaway I got from the article is when giving feedback, focus on what the person is doing instead of what they are not doing, so you can give better specific feedback in a growth positive framing, and they won't feel bad, and instead, hopefully, lke they are on the right rack.

For the Specific feedback article, I learned that it is important to give feedback that is goal-oriented, so the student feels like your feedback is actively helping them get to some goal they are trying to achieve, instead of just thrown out there as a general criticism. I think if you frame most feedback in that way, people would be more receptive of it, because most people are trying to reach some goal, and if your feedback acknowledges that and tries to see how they can get there, that is actually helpful feedback!

I found an image of Sugriva asking for feedback! Make sure it is specific. (Link)

Feedback Thoughts: Week 2

The articles I read for this assignment were:

• Silence the Critical Voices in Your Head
• Overcoming the Fear of Feedback

I choose the first article to read because I feel like I often do have critical voices in my head when I am writing, and often hampers my ability to because I am constantly wondering if what I am writing is good enough for others to read, or even myself.

It was interesting to read about how Rajeev, even though he was wildly successful, was only able to focus on the small criticisms, and how that overwhelmed him. Sometimes I feel like Rajeev, where even though I know those criticisms are small in comparison to the successes I've had, I can't help but to focus on and languish over the small mistakes.

The things I can take away from this article are to focus more on the positives, and how I can keep doing them, instead of the negatives, and how to prevent them. Because I believe that if I can focus on the positives, I can make them outweigh the negatives, at least in my mind.

For the article about the fear of feedback, I chose it because while I personally have no qualms giving feedback (and I even think I'm pretty good at it), I still find myself sometimes angry at the feedback given to me by others. Sometimes, I think the feedback isn't very good because "if only they could see the behind-the-scenes" or " they just don't understand what I'm trying to say!" And while maybe sometimes these concerns are valid, the truth is probably that either I didn't explain something well enough, or something was unclear.

 Overall, I think I am better at giving valuable feedback than receiving it, so I think I need to focus more on looking at feedback from others more objectively, and seeing the point of view from the person giving the feedback.

My reaction(sometimes)

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