Feedback is good for you
Sep 24, 2006
<b>TEACHERS’ DESK</b><br>The third term has started. Teachers expect that both parents and students have taken the remarks on the report cards seriously. Improvement in academic performance is a joint effort between parents, teachers and students.
The third term has started. Teachers expect that both parents and students have taken the remarks on the report cards seriously. Improvement in academic performance is a joint effort between parents, teachers and students. The only way we can improve our performance is through positive feedback.
As a teacher perhaps you are hot tempered; too fast in your lessons; not clear in your explanations or your handwriting is illegible. On the other hand, you could be a good public speaker or counsellor. All these affect your performance.
Therefore, it is important to get feedback to know how you are performing. Feedback is information a teacher gets about his/her performance from any source and may be formal or informal. It can be from parents, colleagues or community members and can be verbal or nonverbal.
Informal feedback is feedback provided by sources which are not within the organisation. Such feedback, which is always unstructured, should not be ignored.
Formal feedback is part of monitoring and evaluation of performance in a school system. It may be provided after a lesson observation or in a formal meeting.
Nonverbal feedback comes in the form of facial expressions, gestures, tone, posture, silence and laughter. A teacher ought to be sensitive to both verbal and nonverbal feedback. Research has shown that nonverbal communication reveals more information than verbal. It is, therefore, upon the teacher to interpret it accurately and act appropriately.
Thus, a teacher should be sensitive to any feedback whether formal or informal, verbal or nonverbal.
Alfred Okello
alfokello@yahoo.com
As a teacher perhaps you are hot tempered; too fast in your lessons; not clear in your explanations or your handwriting is illegible. On the other hand, you could be a good public speaker or counsellor. All these affect your performance.
Therefore, it is important to get feedback to know how you are performing. Feedback is information a teacher gets about his/her performance from any source and may be formal or informal. It can be from parents, colleagues or community members and can be verbal or nonverbal.
Informal feedback is feedback provided by sources which are not within the organisation. Such feedback, which is always unstructured, should not be ignored.
Formal feedback is part of monitoring and evaluation of performance in a school system. It may be provided after a lesson observation or in a formal meeting.
Nonverbal feedback comes in the form of facial expressions, gestures, tone, posture, silence and laughter. A teacher ought to be sensitive to both verbal and nonverbal feedback. Research has shown that nonverbal communication reveals more information than verbal. It is, therefore, upon the teacher to interpret it accurately and act appropriately.
Thus, a teacher should be sensitive to any feedback whether formal or informal, verbal or nonverbal.
Alfred Okello
alfokello@yahoo.com