Thriving in the Classroom

A digital toolkit to support resilience in post-secondary educators and their students

Personal Resilience

Providing feedback that encourages resilience

How can you cultivate resilience in students while providing feedback on their papers or when grading their exams?

This helpful worksheet (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License) provides guidance on how to increase resilience in your students by:

  • Encouraging you to reflect on your own responses to feedback
  • Linking feedback to achievable learning goals
  • Identifying feedback that can decrease resilience
  • Listing approaches to giving feedback
  • Providing a checklist to help ensure that the feedback you provide promotes resilience