Lesson Idea | Giving and Receiving Feedback
Lesson Summary
Students will be able to give positive feedback and constructive criticism to other students in ways that show critical thinking, respect and caring for one another. Giving and receiving feedback is not always easy. Students will learn sentence stems to facilitate giving feedback and new skills to help them receive feedback. These skills will be useful when students listen to each other's presentations and work in small groups.
(Approx. total time: 35 minutes)
Standards
Social and Emotional Competencies
Relationship Skills: The ability to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships with diverse individuals and groups. This includes communicating clearly, listening actively, cooperating, resisting inappropriate social pressure, negotiating conflict constructively, and seeking and offering help when needed.
Self-management: The ability to regulate one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations. This includes managing stress, controlling impulses, motivating oneself, and setting and working toward achieving personal and academic goals.
Excerpted text from CASEL (2017).
Objectives
By the end of the lesson students will
Know (facts/information):
• Giving and receiving feedback is important for learning.
Understand (concepts, big ideas):
• The best solutions arise when people with different knowledge and perspectives listen to each other, communicate respectfully, and collaborate to solve problems.
Be able to do (skills/behaviors):
• Give and receive positive feedback and constructive criticism in ways that show critical thinking, respect, and caring for one another.
• Foster social skills to develop and maintain strong positive relationships.
Vocabulary
• constructive criticism: feedback on a person's performance or product designed to help them make their work better
• feedback: helpful information shared from one person to another to help them improve their performance or product
• positive feedback: compliments shared from one person to another about their performance or product
Materials
Teacher Materials:
• Giving and Receiving Feedback Anchor Chart
Lesson Idea | Giving and Receiving Feedback
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