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Handbook of Experiential Learning...
How Would You Give Feedforward?
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For each of the following situations you feel there is a need to preface your remarks with some kind of feedforward—some kind of prefatory comments before stating your main or primary message. How do you preface the conversation for each of these situations?
- You see an attractive person in one of your classes and would like to get to know the person a bit more with the possible objective of a date.
- You just saw the posted grades for the midterm. Your close friend failed while you did extremely well. In the cafeteria you meet your friend, who asks, “How’d I do on the midterm?”
- You have a reputation for proposing outlandish ides to interject humor into otherwise formal and boring discussions. This time, however, you want to offer a proposal that you fear will at first seem to be one of your standard outlandish and humorous proposals but is actually an idea that you think could work. You want to assure your group members that this is an idea worthy of their serious consideration.
- Your friend is gay and has been active in the Gay Rights Movement on campus. You want to ask for his advice on a paper you’re writing about marriage for your sociology class. Specifically, you want to know how a gay male, particularly one who is a dedicated activist, views the topic of marriage.
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