Feedback Strategies

 For this week we had to read two articles on how to give feedback.

The first article I read was Trying Feedforward instead of Feedback by Marshalls Goldsmith. The article goes into detail about how feedback focuses on the past and that instead, we should be giving feedforward instead. Which is the feedback that focuses on the future instead of the past. The article goes on to talk about how we can change the future and how we can't change the past. It also mentions how it better to teach a person how to be right rather than how what they did was wrong. People are less likely to take on feedforward than feedback because feedback can be seen as a negative thing. The article goes on to tell us more ways of how giving feedforward is much better than feedback and how much more positive it can make us feel to hear about the stuff we are capable of controlling rather than stuff we can not change.

The second article I read was Be a Mirror by Gravity Goldberg. This article goes on to mention growth mindset and how it's much more important for students to have a growth mindset rather than a fixed mindset because it doesn't make them feel like their abilities are static and can't be changed. The article goes on to give 5 qualities of feedback that foster a growth mindset. It talks about how you can use how "When you" instead of "I like when". It talks about being a  mirror to your students to help you notice the change in their mindset.

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