Instructor Training

Structured Feedback

Feedback is most effective when it's structured. In this activity, learners will practice giving feedback in the 'outside-in' formalism, and with a rubric.

Made by the Mozilla Science Lab

Steps for the Activity (1 h 15 min)

  1. Ask students to devise a new 10 minute lesson on the topic they've been teaching (30 min).
  2. Have students assemble groups of 3; one person presents, one listens, and one records. Listener then gives feedback broken down along the three categories of outside-in: physical, presentation and content, and recorder gives feedback based on the 'Medium' version of this rubric (45 min).
  3. Reconvene the class, and collect some examples of feedback; these can serve as a collection of things to look for when doing outside-in style feedback.