 it's not enough by just saying you're wasting my time you know you should just drop this cause you'll fail this semester or you're you're gonna get an F and all that that doesn't help that doesn't that doesn't develop a learner hello everyone welcome to the third episode of edu bites in this episode i'll be talking about feedback as we know in learning feedback is crucial in order to encourage our learners or even to suggest improvement to our learners the problem with a lot of feedback is that they are pulling back the students more than developing them so in this episode i'll be introducing you to this fit forward approach instead of feedback we try to give responses that encourage our learners to move forward now based on what joe herge in his book the feedback fix he outlined the six ways for us to improve our feedback so that it can be turned into fit forward they are six but i'm in this episode i'll be sharing two of those six strategies the first one is expand possibilities a lot of time when we give our feedback to our learners we tend to focus on the rating part we rate them according to what they have produced it doesn't point out the other possibilities that the learners can achieve or the other possibilities that the learners can go and uncover so what he means by expand possibility is we point out what else can be done based on the thing that they have produced if they're really good at it well you say you might want to produce this in in a formal video you might want to publish this in a blog and all that offer them that kind of feedback so that if you're encouraged to continue doing what they do best or if they're doing badly in certain aspect then point out that point out that problem and try to offer alternatives for them right if you see your learners are having problems in that area then you should also look at your part what else can be done to help this learner to kind of achieve the intended goal or internet intended learning outcome it's not enough by just saying you're wasting my time you know you should just drop this course you'll fail this semester or you're you're going to get an F and all that that doesn't help that doesn't that doesn't develop a learner it actually kills them in in learning I know some learners are tough but as the educators we should not give up easily we try our best to guide them expand other possibilities or alternative so that they could develop at least achieve at the minimum as we required even if you give feedback like good brilliant sometimes if you do this too often even the good ones start to give up on submitting better work because they thought that is the best already because it doesn't expand the possibilities another point that Joe mentioned in this book is good feedback or good responses should be particular or specific it's not information dump a lot of feedback are kind of like information dump you know once they're done we just give them and that's it it should be more meaningful by being specific in certain areas for example if you're asking them to write an essay instead of wait until they finish the whole essay you can give your feedback progressively so let's say they have done the first paragraph you can always comment on the first paragraph you know what else to improve if they're okay then they can proceed because this takes a bit of time but if you do this frequently you make use of the existing tools like google docs you don't really feel that it's that tiring in fact you'll be meaningful because you get to see your learners improve you get to see better quality in their work and all that it's like doing the hard work first and expecting better outcome rather than pushing all the frustration towards the end you know that's what happened in most of the time in sit-back because you don't really check on the progress you just wait until the end product and then you vent all your frustration there you know you know this student doesn't really understand it's a bit too late from the learners point of view they can't really improve they can't really develop from whatever weaknesses they have not only you have to make your feedback specific to the learning outcome you know you can always spell out the learning outcome so this week I just want to check your introduction make sure your TC statement is correct for example so that helps you to be more specific in the feedback and then the following two weeks maybe I want to see how you develop your points so you might want to explore some possibilities in doing this so don't limit yourself to one way of delivering feedback or to your learners or responses to your learners so be in that constant fit forward mode that constantly think about the best way to convey your responses to your learners so that they can improve instead of just spinning point instead of just pinpointing their mistakes or their errors that wouldn't help in learning anyway so Joe has outlined more strategies in his book you might want to check that out uh the most crucial thing I think when it comes to feedback it has to be expanding possibilities and of course it has to be specific not too generic sometimes generic feedback doesn't really help learners to improve if you really care about improvement of your learners and something has to be done in the way you give your feedback instead of pulling them back you might want to push them forward and do something better so that's all for this episode don't forget to subscribe and like this video if you're on podcast then don't forget to follow my podcast on edu bites so if you have any suggestion or comments please leave it in the comment box I'll be more than happy to entertain your fit forward responses thank you see you in the next episode