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Giving & Receiving Feedback

Twelfth graders build relationship skills for college and the workplace by learning to give feedback (specific and kind, about the work) and receive it (listening without defensiveness, then reflecting). They sort helpful habits from unhelpful ones, then practice both sides.

Grade 12Giving & Receiving Feedback45 minutes1 class periodCASELExplicit teaching4 StandardsCASEL
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Give specific, kind feedback.
  • ✓Focus on the work.
  • ✓Receive without defensiveness.
  • ✓Grow from it.
Essential Question

How do you give and take feedback in a way that actually helps?

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Interactive Task
Sort It · Interactive

Helpful, or Unhelpful?

Project this and sort each into Helpful with feedback or Unhelpful.

🔄 Sort each — helpful with feedback, or unhelpful?Try it
💛 Helpful with feedback
👎 Unhelpful
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The Lesson · Explicit teaching

45 minutes, five moves

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1

Check-In — Hard to Hear

4 min

Why is feedback sometimes hard to give — and to take?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Reflect quietly.
  • Share if you like.
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Reflect.
  • Share.
  • Get ready.
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Learn — Feedback

11 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Helpful or Unhelpful?
  • Sort each one.
  • Note focus on the work.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sort.
  • Say.
  • Note it.
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Practice — Practice

14 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Give specific, kind feedback.
  • Receive without defending.
  • Say thank you.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Give.
  • Receive.
  • Thank.
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Apply — Apply

11 min

Students apply.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Swap feedback with a partner.
  • Reflect on one point.
  • Name an action.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Swap.
  • Reflect.
  • Act.
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Reflect — Reflect

5 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a helpful feedback habit.
  • Name an unhelpful one.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name one.
  • Name one.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the CASEL Framework for Social and Emotional Learning across its five core competencies.

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Relationship Skills

Give and receive feedback constructively.

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Self-Management

Manage defensiveness.

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Social Awareness

Consider others’ perspectives.

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Responsible Decision-Making

Use feedback to improve.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Helpful/unhelpful cards.
  • Frame: "good feedback is ___."
  • Practice in pairs.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Sort helpful vs not.
  • Use 4 habits.
  • Practice one line.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Give feedback on a real draft.
  • Run a feedback circle.
  • Reflect on growth.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 🔄Habit cards
  • 💻Helpful or Unhelpful?
  • 📋Feedback practice sheet
  • 📓Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

feedbackinput on your workspecificclear and detailedconstructivemeant to helpdefensiveprotecting yourself from inputreflectthink it overgrowthimprovementreceivetake it inrespectfulkind and considerate
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
Name a helpful feedback habit.
Be specific and kind, focus on the work, or listen without defending.
QUESTION 2
Name an unhelpful one.
Personal attacks, vagueness, or ignoring it.
QUESTION 3
What should you do after receiving feedback?
Say thank you and reflect on it.

Reflect: giving & receiving feedback.

Have students practice giving and receiving feedback. A printable feedback practice sheet is in the SEL library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

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Practice · Quiz

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

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Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: constructive, defensive, feedback, growth, receive, reflect, respectful, specific
  1. meant to help
  2. input on your work
  3. take it in
  4. kind and considerate
  5. improvement
  6. protecting yourself from input
  7. think it over
  8. clear and detailed

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. Name a helpful feedback habit.
  2. Name an unhelpful one.
  3. What should you do after receiving feedback?
Answer key — Part A: 1) constructive · 2) feedback · 3) receive · 4) respectful · 5) growth · 6) defensive · 7) reflect · 8) specific
Part B: 1) Be specific and kind, focus on the work, or listen without defending. 2) Personal attacks, vagueness, or ignoring it. 3) Say thank you and reflect on it.