Enquiry : How you explore, ask questions and research the subject matter.
Knowledge: How you gather relevant information pertaining to your area of interest and relate it to a wider context.
Process: risk taking, experimentation, demonstrating how you have developed your idea through making process from start to finish.
Communication: telling the story of your learning by talking about/ explaining your work to others
Realisation: looking at the work you create and how it embodies what you have learnt throughout the process. What the work reveals and speaks on.
What do you identify as feedback and feedback forward?
Feedback is (constructive, honest, specific, supportive) information given to students to contextualise where they’re at in relation to the learning goals. It helps students reflect on their progress, identify and subsequently fill gaps in understanding.
Feedforward looks ahead to how the student might develop on what they have already accomplished and offers them progressive guidance on how to do better moving forward.
How is this useful in a teaching setting
It is useful because it allows the student a space to reflect on their learning and encourages problem solving and a willingness to improve without becoming complacent. It helps keep the creative momentum going when you receive constructive feedback and unlocks different paths to venture into when it comes to the creative process.
Can you provide examples of ways you may use this style of feedback?
3 weeks into a project, the students communicate the crux of their group projects and how they’ve begun to develop on their initial ideas and have started to make samples. After hearing them out i would offer the opportunity for them to feedback to one another on what they think (peer to peer feedback) then I would give them feedback on how they could possibly further develop and refine their process. The feedback would not be instructive in nature but would point towards reflection.
Have you looked into so and so’s work, they deal with similar themes?
Moving forward, what do you think you could improve on?
What worked in the process, what didn’t work?
How can you refine and rework what you have researched/ made?
