- For my project, I am creating a session on how to “teach the teacher” how to provide feedback. In medical education, we are expected to give feedback to junior learners (for example, residents supervise and provide feedback to medical students, faculty supervise and are expected to give feedback to resident physicians). However, there is little faculty/professional development for teaching those in this supervisory role what exactly constitutes good feedback and when/how to provide it. The goal of my session is to teach the teacher how to provide effective feedback – this will be accomplished through a role play scenario utilizing standardized patients (SPs). Standardized patients are popular in medical education; SPs are trained actors employed by the medical school/hospital. I hope my project will help others gain a better sense of how important feedback is (not just in medical education but in all learning environments). My project builds on ‘active processing’ and concepts of instructor and peer feedback, as we learned about in How People Learn (Summer, 2023). One thing that I learned about in doing this project work is how important it is to have some form of assessment to gather data about how effective your project/design is (the ‘E’ in the ADDIE model).
Feedback Foundations
