In advisory last week we talked of ownership and what it means to be inside a project. This week we’re turning to feedback: how to seek it, how to use it, when to build on it, when to ignore it, and what constitutes good feedback.

Monday morning we did a collaborative activity where students made a list of types of feedback, passed their papers to a colleague who wrote out an example of that sort of feedback, and concluded with a second colleague writing about when such feedback is helpful and when it is not. This is standard Monday morning “let’s write instead of talk because everyone is crazy from the weekend” but the results offer a window into how our group is seeing and feeling feedback.

Now if I could just a find a time machine so that I could offer more (and better) feedback.