Feedback Strategies

Feed Back Strategies 

The two articles I looked at were Five reasons to stop saying good job and The difference between praise and feedback.

I liked these articles as they thought me how praise isn't always a good thing which never occurred to me before.

In Five Reasons to Stop saying Good Job it talks about the various reasons why saying good job to young children hinders their development more so than helping them, It suggests it applies to people of all ages but mainly young kids. One of the reasons which I thought was really interesting was that by saying good job to a child for some of the work they've done they then attach that to the feeling of the praise and it becomes less about the actually task and more about the praise, which I thought was really peculiar. I liked the last section of this article a lot as it focused on what you should say rather than why it is bad and I thought this was helpful as it seems like it is focused for everyone's feedback rather than just kids.

In The difference between praise and feedback it talks about two experts in the matters opinion on feedback and one explains how she thinks that the generic good job and stuff is bad and says how she thinks you should say stuff like "You can tell you put a lot of effort in" and general observations rather than judgement. Whereas the second person says that this is just passing judgement on effort and that you should rather ask the kid how they feel about it like how did you find that or which was the hardest part of it.

Overall i feel like the first one was more useful for now the second one might come in handy when I have a kid but how praise affects kids is mainly what I took from the second article whereas I felt like I took some useful information on giving feedback from the first one.

                  (Image of a star taken from WikiMedia

            as this is what I think of when I think of Feedback)

Feedback thoughts

A lot of the time when I am getting feed back I expect the worst, I expect them to be really negative and to just highlight all the bad things in my work so I'm prepared for if this happens, but, the majority of the time this isn't the case. I found especially in college it is very rare that you'll be given feedback (by lecturers I don't think most of us students have had enough practice yet) which highlights your mistakes as it usually highlights why they are mistakes or highlights good work you've done and how by following the guides you followed to achieve them results you can improve on all your work.

I feel like in secondary school a lot of the time you didn't really get feedback, you got a percentage (if they converted it for you) and a generic comment like "good work" or "needs work". No matter what result you get none of these comments are helpful as they are really impersonal, like the teacher just wrote one or the other depending on what grade you got rather than how you're work actually was.

The two articles I read were Neil Gaiman's advice on  the creative life and Why it's so hard to hear negative feedback
I liked the second article I read "Why its hard to hear negative feedback" as I felt it gave some good tips on what to do when both getting and giving feedback.

Overall I think although it can be hard to hear sometimes feedback is a great tool for learning.

                                              (Image taken from Pixabay, classic sign for feedback)