1. Faculty Development Day
Effective Feedback: Hi-Five – Helpful Information for Improvement via Explanation
Faculty Development Day
October 14, 2017
Dr. Jason L. James, Jr.
Dr. Lynne L. Svenning

2. Agenda Institutional Priorities
Your Learning Needs / Student Expectations
Best Practices
Writing Feedback Examples
Writing Feedback Exercise
Other Kinds of Feedback

3. FY 2017-18 INSITUTIONAL PRIORITIES
Strengthening Our Academic Offerings Initiatives:
Feedback to Students
Communicate clear and consistent teaching expectations to all instructors with particular emphasis on the importance of timely communication and effective feedback.
Strengthening Our Academic Offerings Outcomes:
At least 3 professional development opportunities will be offered to faculty and chairs based on the Teaching Expectations document – specifically in the area of feedback to students.

4. What are YOU hoping to learn?
What are some of the questions and issues that bring you to this faculty development session?

5. Student Expectations
If you were to have a conversation with your students about feedback at the beginning of your class, how would you start that conversation?
What kinds of feedback do your students expect from you?
Where do you and your student diverge on the issue of feedback?

6. A few best practices… Provide feedback that is: Detailed and summative
Directed towards the future
Actionable and constructive
Clear and unambiguous
Proactive and conversant
Thought-provoking and stimulating
Provide feedback that:
Details examples of what you mean
Addresses grammar, style, content, and design
Details page numbers in the APA manual
Encourages the reader to read the document out loud before document submission
To what extent do you utilize these best practices?

7. The Sandwich Model

8. A few best practices (cont.)…
WRITE
Consult with a colleague who has demonstrated proficiency.
Articulate your feedback style and provide examples.
Review and become familiar with your APA manual.
Build a personal library of common feedback situations and instances.
Be prepared to consult about / defend your feedback.
Seek feedback from others about your own writing and your student feedback.
Allow yourself the necessary time to do it properly.
Consider the best time to deliver feedback.

9. Let’s capture other best practices
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10. Writing Feedback Examples
This section provides examples of feedback to students on their written document submissions. These are only examples, and the examples are meant to be helpful and thought-provoking about your own feedback styles.

11. Congruency & APA

12. Praise & Recognition / Summary

13. Document Design

14. Grammar & Praise / Recognition

15. APA & Document Design

16. APA & Spelling

17. Conversational Responses

18. Logic & Reasoning

19. Document Design

20. Since / Because – Time / Causation & Relationships

21. APA / Reminder

22. APA & Praise / Recognition

23. Stated, States, State…Direct Quote / Paraphrase

24. APA Reference Page

25. Resource Insight

26. APA In-text Citation

27. Examples to work through…
Take a few moments to read the following pages, and then take a few moments to consider the constructive feedback that could be given.

28. Is there required fixing? If so, what?
Notes:
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29. Is there required fixing? If so, what?
Notes:
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30. We found a few, but maybe you found more...

31. We found a few, but maybe you found more...

32. Other Kinds of Feedback
We’ve spent a lot of time on document feedback. What are some other kinds of feedback you might give during a course?
Verbal feedback during class?
Written feedback in the discussion board?
Recorded verbal feedback in the announcement section (generalized feedback that may apply to all students) or recorded verbal feedback on assignments?

33. Other Kinds of Feedback
How do you give feedback in front of others that does not embarrass the student and provides a learning opportunity for everyone in the class?
Humor and feedback?
Are you comfortable with mixing humor and feedback?
Do you need to do anything special to create the space for this type of humor-feedback combination?