Three-way teaching? Confusing but in a word I could say it
was feedback-ception. The gist of it was we got to play 3 roles as a teacher.
All of which is designed to make us practice how we give feedback. Simple
enough since we already have an idea of how to do it, it was the adapting part
that was difficult.
My first role was to teach a classmate how to make paper
stars. She was familiar with the skill
but has not yet perfected it so I had to adjust my plan of teaching. I gave visual, auditory, and a bit of tactile
feedbacks but gradually lessened it as she improves. The important part was
that as teachers we have to gauge our student’s skills so that we may facilitate
learning.
On the other hand giving feedback to a peer or an underling is
somewhat tricky. I had to remember that while I was critiquing I was also
encouraging them simultaneously. Therefore how I delivered the feedback is a
critical factor, a calming tone is essential even if a mistake is noted. It was lucky that in both cases I saw no errors
aside from a mistake I was not yet aware of. We learned that teacher should
never make a mistake on demonstrating the skill since it is detrimental to the
student’s learning.
As future PTs we would be put in all of these spots and
properly giving critics is imperative. An important technique to note is the ‘sandwhich
method’ where the things that need improvement are in between the good points. The
most important thing though is that we should always KNOW what we are teaching.
One does not need to be an expert but at the very least familiar to the skill
before we teach them in order to give proper feedback.
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