Receiving feedback from your practice educator

Learning Objectives

After considering this resource, you should understand positive and negative types of feedback and how both can be put to constructive use.

Receiving feedback on placement is a useful way of tracking your progress. Often this feedback will come during sessions with your practice educator, and can be both positive and negative. The important thing to remember is that all feedback should be constructive and help you develop as a practitioner.

In the following video, practice educator Victoria Hart discusses different types of feedback you may receive in a supervision session and how you can make effective use of it.

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Reflective Questions

  1. How can a reflective diary help you to process feedback from your practice educator?
  2. Consider a time when you had to impart negative feedback. How did it make you feel?
  3. How can you best make effective use of positive feedback?
  4. How can you best make effective use of negative feedback?
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