[Ili_wlp_teachers] FEEDBACK

[Gabriela Vidali]

ABOUT FEEDBACK

This comes from the Educational Solutions Newsletter: 

For a sensitive teacher, teaching, above all, is an interpersonal human activity.  Hence, to develop and exercise the skill of receiving the output of students' energy in the form of feed-
back is seen by him or her as a professional necessity.

A sensitive teacher asks:  "Can I be open to receiving in the responses of my students the personal statements they make about their vulnerability to the activities in which we are participating together?  Can I respond to their messages in ways which carry to them the message that I am prepared to act in light of their fedbacks?"

Since these questions belong to the teaching-learning situations which are dynamic, new, growing and changing all the time, the answers to them are inpredictable.  The preperation of oneself, however for knowing how to receive the feebacks from ones' students, and how to reciprocate in the light of them, seems to be in knowing that that which is unpreditable can best be met with an open mind.  When in one's mind there are no expectations of others and no demands are put on them, it becomes possible to receive feebacks as they come.  When one's mind is not filled with preconceived notions as yardsticks compelling one to be preoccupied with what the feedbacks should be, then it is possible to receive the feedbacks for what they are, and it is easier to act accordingly.  In the absence of the inner pressures generated by expecations and preoccuapation, it becomes feasible for one's sensitivity to be at work to let the two-way flow of energy as feedback take place.



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