Reflection 7

Informative feedback and justification are very important. This became evident to me today while i observed one of the teachers at Wasatch High School. The class had just finished a set of commercials and so he had them up and playing on the projector for the kids to see. After each video he gave specific feedback on each commercial mainly pointing out the things they did wrong or didn't "look good". For one, I know that feedback is better if you tell only the individual or group alone rather than to the whole class unless there is something that you want to point that the whole class is struggling with or that they can all learn from. Secondly, he gave feedback such as: "choose a different song, someone else already used it." The kid responded "I know I had it on there first." Teacher said "yeah but that song doesn't fit your cross country movie, it fits the other one better" (That wasn't word for word but it was very similar). The teacher also gave feedback such as: "add a drop shadow on the text" and other almost rude comments. The positive feedback he gave included "that was good" and "that looked good." He never gave feedback on how well the angles were or any other film composition. If he thought it was "cool" then they got a good grade. I firmly believe that informative feedback is very important and should be detailed in that the teacher analyzes according to such things as: camera angles, types of shots, principles of design and other standards you are trying to effectively teach.