ATL Communication: Give and receive meaningful feedback

• Frans
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

ATL: Communication

Give and receive meaningful feedback

1. What is feedback?

2. What makes feedback meaningful?

3. Does good feedback depend on your culture?

Feedback:
what is it?

What makes good feedback?

What makes bad feedback?

Does good feedback depend on your culture and background?

Read pages 38 - 43 of Chapter 2: The many faces of polite - Evaluating performance and giving direct negative feedback from the book The Culture Map (Erin Meyer, 2016) in the following slide or on the Stream on MB.

Then complete the questions on the slides that follow.

Provide students the pdf version of the chapter 

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Where is Sabine Dulac from?

1. America
2. The Netherlands
3. France
4. The United Kingdom

Where were Sabine's team members from?

1. America
2. The Netherlands
3. France
4. The United Kingdom

Why was Sabine Dulac heavily criticised by her team members?

What is the problem with 'constructive criticism'?

1. It's not the same in every country
2. It isn't useful
3. It is the same in every country
4. It is hard to give

Name a time that you had 'too direct criticism' (be succinct!)

Give an extreme example such as:

• giving a presentation and the teacher just said that I have an annoying voice 
• wrote a text and the teacher said it belonged in the bin 
• Feedback on the Yearbook and the only thing a student said was 'I don't like the cover'

Name a time that you didn't receive enough criticism (be succinct!)

Give an example such as:

• teacher said I did well in the formative speaking, but then I did the same in the summative and didn't pass

Where is this type of manager from:
They wrap a positive message around a negative one

1. America
2. China
3. The Netherlands
4. France

Where is this type of manager from:
They heavily criticise and give limited positive feedback

1. America
2. China
3. The Netherlands
4. France

Where is this type of manager from:
They never criticise another person in front of others

1. America
2. China
3. The Netherlands
4. France

'totally', 'absolutely' and 'strongly' are all types of...

1. upgraders
2. downgraders

What do upgraders do, and which type of culture uses them?

Identify three types of downgraders

What do downgraders do, and which type of culture uses them?

What does a British person mean when they say "Very interesting..."

What does a Dutch person understand when they hear "Please think about that some more..."

And so what about you?

Which type of feedback do you prefer?

What do you like when receiving feedback? Let's decide as a class!

C'est à vous !

Last week you wrote an autobiographical text. You're now going to give feedback to a classmate.

1. Analyze your peer's text
   
2. Check if it is according to the criteria
   
3. Give meaningful feedback
   

You will then be able to edit your task according to the feedback given (I will also have a look).