Teaching undergraduate Learning Assistants about giving effective feedback | CU Experts

Overview

A key challenge for peer academic support programs is finding appropriate pedagogical tools that mediate the growth of undergraduates as they support their peers' learning. In this article, we share a lesson and reading designed to engage undergraduate Learning Assistants (LAs) in developing strategies for effectively giving feedback to their students as part of the learning process. We then investigated the impacts of these pedagogical approaches and found that through this scaffolding, LAs were able to effectively analyze their feedback and recognize its importance in their role, contributing to their growth as educators and students.