Time: ~30 min, with three or four pieces of your own recent feedback
Pairs with: Presenting Your Voice in Feedback
What this is for
A printable, fillable one-page Voice Profile. Use it after reading Presenting Your Voice in Feedback. The output is a single sheet you bring into the Template Builder via the Building Your Template from Your Voice Profile product video.
Step 1 — Read your own feedback aloud (about 5 minutes)
Pull three or four recent pieces of feedback you have written. Read each one aloud, slowly. Listen for the patterns.
Your tone, in three or four words:
Step 2 — Capture your characteristic phrases (about 10 minutes)
For each of the six moments, write the one or two phrases you actually used most often. Note any moment that's missing from your default mode.
Opening. How does your feedback usually begin?
Transition. How do you move from one thing to the next?
Encouragement. How do you name effort or growth?
Constructive framing. How do you introduce an issue?
Guidance. How do you describe a next step?
Closing. How does your feedback end?
Step 3 — Vocabulary and avoidance (about 5 minutes)
Praise words you reach for (5–6):
Growth words you use (5–6):
Words you avoid (anything that feels too generic in your mouth):
Step 4 — Adaptations (about 5 minutes)
Do you change your voice for different students? If yes, note how. If your voice is consistent across all students, note that too.
Struggling or discouraged students: ___________________________
High-achieving students: _______________________________________
ELL students: _________________________________________________
Anxious students: _____________________________________________
Step 5 — Synthesise into one page (about 5 minutes)
Write your synthesis below. This is the artifact you bring into the Template Builder.
TONE: _____________________________________________________
CHARACTERISTIC PHRASES
Opening: ________________________________________
Transition: ________________________________________
Encouragement: ________________________________________
Critique frame: ________________________________________
Guidance: ________________________________________
Closing: ________________________________________
VOCABULARY
Praise words: ________________________________________
Growth words: ________________________________________
Avoid: ________________________________________
ADAPTATIONS: __________________________________________
FORMALITY: formal / conversational / between
STRUCTURE: paragraphs / bullets / mix · length:____