Procedure 1. Form workgroups as assigned by your instructor.

2. The instructor will leave the room.

3. Convene in your assigned workgroups for a period of 10 minutes. Create a list of comments, problems, issues, and concerns you would like to have communicated to the instructor in regard to the course experience to date. Remember, your interest in the exercise is twofold:

(a) to communicate your feelings to the instructor and

(b) to learn more about the process of giving and receiving feedback.

4. Select one person from the group to act as spokesperson in communicating the group’s feelings to the instructor.

5. The spokespersons should briefly convene to decide on what physical arrangement of chairs, tables, and so forth is most appropriate to conduct the feedback session. The classroom should then be rearranged to fit the desired specifications.

6. While the spokespersons convene, persons in the remaining groups should discuss how they expect the forthcoming communications event to develop. Will it be a good experience for all parties concerned? Be prepared to critically observe the actual communication process.

7. The instructor should be invited to return, and the feedback session will begin.

Observers should make notes so that they may make constructive comments at the conclusion of the exercise.

8. Once the feedback session is complete, the instructor will call on the observers for comments, ask the spokespersons for reactions, and open the session to discussion.