Students often seem reluctant to provide helpful feedback to their classmates\u2019 in-class presentations.\u00a0 Maybe they just don\u2019t want to seem judgmental, or are concerned about \u201cpayback\u201d when it\u2019s their time to present. So\u00a0 here\u2019s a tip:<\/p>\n
Prior to an in-class presentation, give each student in the audience a green and a red (or yellow) index card.\u00a0 When the presentation is finished, ask each student to write a positive<\/span> comment on the green card, and a \u201cconstructive criticism<\/span>\u201d on the red\/yellow card.<\/p>\n The teacher then collects the cards, mixes them up, and reads selected ones to the class.\u00a0 This provides the student giving the presentation some honest, peer-written feedback \u2026 and keeps the process anonymous.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve found it gets better, more honest feedback from the class \u2026 and everybody seems to enjoy the process.<\/p>\n Jim is a Career Education Coordinator and Instructional Staff at Principia College. \u00a0Jim has been working and teaching at Principia College for 10 years.\u00a0 \u00a0His work outside of the College extends to being an experienced professional writer and business\/technical writing teacher.\u00a0 Besides teaching, Jim enjoys hanging out with his bride of 43 years, Joanie (former Upper School teacher), two grown children and their spouses, and five grandchildren (ages 4-13).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Students often seem reluctant to provide helpful feedback to their classmates\u2019 in-class presentations.\u00a0 Maybe they just don\u2019t want to seem judgmental, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[120,119],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips","tag-feedback","tag-student-feedback"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5DI6r-1438","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}