At STiR Education, our mission is to reignite intrinsic motivation throughout the education system and role-model the foundations of lifelong learning. The key elements that influence intrinsic motivation are having a sense of autonomy, mastery and purpose. At the heart of these three elements lies the process of giving and seeking high quality feedback. Feedback is a simple process of reflecting on and assessing our learning that guides our journey towards continuous improvement, enabling us to feel a sense of mastery and growth in our professional lives. When we are able to deeply reflect and decide what our improvement journey can look like, we start gaining a sense of agency and autonomy. Through all this, feedback as a process continuously reiterates and reminds us of the purpose we set out to achieve. Therefore, feedback is at the core of the work we do at STiR and something we wish to continuously explore and strengthen.
Since we work in geographies and education systems across the world, we have had the opportunity to see how great feedback works in different contexts. The principles of high quality feedback exist in varying forms, but the core remains the same everywhere. While research tells us what that core is, it does not always provide us with mental models of what the varying forms can be. This learning document is an attempt at capturing these diverse forms through the personal stories of feedback from our peers, colleagues and partners. We hope their experiences and knowledge will help others create mental models of what great feedback can look like.
You can read the learning document in full here.