Giving Effective Advice: Targeting Feedback Toward Student Growth
About this workshop:
Providing helpful student feedback is a core component of the learning process. This workshop will explore the principles and philosophies of giving constructive feedback on student thinking, speaking, and writing. Participants will engage with a broad variety of spoken and written feedback strategies. Through activities and discussions, they will synthesize and exercise creative ways to apply these strategies across a range of disciplines and scenarios, including in their own teaching. Cross-disciplinarity in this workshop is driven by facilitators’ backgrounds in chemistry, theatre, and English.
About the facilitators:
Janine Chow is a 5th year in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama. At Northwestern, she has designed and taught a writing class on adaptation in musical theatre and a remote seminar on childhood in musical theatre. She has also TA'd for both lecture and seminar courses. Janine focuses on inclusivity in course design and classroom dialogue, with attention to empowering and validating individual voices. She's also interested in adaptive pandemic pedagogy with new modes of virtual engagement. In classroom-adjacent spaces, Janine works with undergrads as a residential college fellow and a dramaturg for campus productions.
Jonathan Schultz is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Chemistry Department. He uses experimental and theoretical tools to examine the function of quantum mechanics in harvesting solar energy. His ambitions to develop and share pedagogical tools stem from the role his mentors have played in shaping his own career. He has served as a teaching assistant in several general chemistry courses and an advanced physical chemistry lab at Northwestern. As a volunteer for the Science Club Mentor Program, Jon realized a passion for boosting the accessibility of science. He now seeks to use graduate research as an active learning tool at Northwestern.