3T PLAY project - Supporting students’ skills for giving feedback

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How to support students’ skills for giving constructive feedback, especially when it is difficult to hear

Being able to deliver feedback to peers is a key management skill and something engineering students report finding difficult, due to the relational and emotional implications. This experiential activity provides students with emotional management strategies and a first, low-stakes opportunity to apply them when both giving feedback and responding to feedback received. This workshop is designed to target the development of the following skills:

• Formulating feedback to be “heard” by others by attending to their emotional response.
• Managing your emotions when receiving and responding to feedback.

There will be refreshments at 9am and 10.30am, followed by another workshop on Supporting students to develop coaching and peer teaching skills and a sandwich lunch at 12pm.

About the trainer

Joelyn de Lima is a scientist & pedagogical advisor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Trained in the biological sciences, she transitioned to being a discipline-based education researcher. Currently her research and practice are focused on enhancing the higher educational experience for students. Her background has given her a unique blend of perspectives – in terms of culture (She has lived, worked, and taught on 3 continents), theoretical grounding (natural sciences and education), and practice (research & teaching, formal & informal education).

• Staff and students from Cambridge University Engineering Department ONLY
• Further details regarding CLIC's eligibility criteria are available here

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Number of sessions: 1

This workshop is designed to target the development of the following skills:

• Formulating feedback to be “heard” by others by attending to their emotional response.
• Managing your emotions when receiving and responding to feedback.

Teaching Transversal Skills using Tangibles

Enhance your skills to teach transversal skills in these workshops facilitated by Dr. Joelyn de Lima (EPFL). The 3T PLAY project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) invites you to attend two professional development opportunities focusing on teaching transversal skills. These workshops are based on the evidence-informed, scholarly output from a multi-year translational research project. You will discover open-source activities that you can adapt for your own context, which are complemented by a framework for designing experiential learning activities focusing on transversal skills. These workshops have been conducted in multiple countries and the participants have found them to be valuable in influencing their teaching practice.

In-person workshop

1.5 hours

• 3T PLAY project - Supporting students to develop coaching and peer teaching skills