I have been thinking some more about why the presence of the feedback loop is so diminutive. Very often, students are rapped on the knuckles for trying to give critical feedback. Worse, the response is more along the lines of, 'Get your house in order before you point fingers at me'. They soon learn to shut up.
Even in situations when the feedback could be positive, students are reticent to come out and say it, because, particularly in India and specifically in school, we have never been taught to pay a compliment. We have never been shown how it can be done well. It is for most of us therefore an awkward exercise. We carry this limitation with us to work and into our socially inept adult lives. It is this inability to pay someone a compliment graciously that makes most people find themselves tongue-tied when trying to approach someone they are attracted to.
We are not very good at receiving compliments either. Often, we find we don't know what to say when someone pays us a compliment.
I have come to believe that the one thing that a teacher can do to enable this crippled feedback loop, is to work on making sessions fun and engaging.
True engagement is feedback in itself; as is the lack thereof.
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