Series Growth Mindset Made Visible : Praising the Process

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Common core State Standards

  • ELA:  English Language Arts
  • W:  Writing Standards K-5
  • 1:  1st Grade
  • 3: 
    Write narratives in which they recount two or
    more appropriately sequenced events, include
    some details regarding what happened, use
    temporal words to signal event order, and
    provide some sense of closure.

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Common core State Standards

  • ELA:  English Language Arts
  • W:  Writing Standards K-5
  • 1:  1st Grade
  • 5: 
    With guidance and support from adults, focus on
    a topic, respond to questions and suggestions
    from peers, and add details to strengthen writing
    as needed.

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Praising the Process

Lesson Objective: Use process praise to encourage a growth mindset
All Grades / All Subjects / Mindset
6 MIN
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Discussion and Supporting Materials

Thought starters

  1. How does process praise help students develop growth mindsets?
  2. How does Ms. Stewart make sure her process praise is authentic?
  3. What tips does Ms. Stewart share for how teachers can begin to use process praise in their classrooms?

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  • Private message to LaBresha Small
  1. The process praise helps students develop growth mindsets because it allows them to set independent goals for their writing where they can take ownership of executing necessary steps to attain the goals they set before they complete the product.
  2. Ms. Stewart makes sure her process praise is authentic by making herself familar with each student's work and paying attention to details of their writing. She not only shares how they met their goals but encourages them with open-ended questions and suggestions for growing their writing skills.
  3. The  tips Ms. Stewart shares for how teachers can begin to use process praise in their classrooms are so many. She explains the importance of modeling, being authentic in confer time with students and making sure their independent goals are posted where they can check off if they are mastering it. Overall, my takeaway is she stresses that process praise should be an intricate part of the writing block to grow students academically and prepare them for life. 
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  • Private message to Joann Miller

Ms. Stewart, praising the process not the product which helps build grow their mind process. She makes each student praise authentic by reviewing students work prior to visiting with the child. She does a lot of modeling. I love her enthusian she models for the students.  

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  • Private message to Tiffany Baltazar

1. The process praise help students develop growth mindsets by helping the students to set goals befrore starting the writing.

2. Ms. Stewart make sure her process praise is authentic by praising the student process before their product.

3. Ms. Stewart share  how teachers can begin to use process praise in their classrooms by letting the students set their own writing goal and praise them before they get started.

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  • Private message to Rachel Thomson
  1. How does process praise help students develop growth mindsets? Process praise is a great tool to help students develop a growth mindset. At the beginning of the video, Ms. Stewart was sharing about how it is not necessarily praising the end product, but it is important to praise the process that the students are on to develop their finished product. Process praise encourages students to continue with their effort and show that they are working in a meaningful way.
  2. How does Ms. Stewart make sure her process praise is authentic? Ms. Stewart made sure that her process praise was authentic by going around to each student and giving individual feedback. She did not simply say good job, but she praised specific things that she found in each student’s work. Also, she shared positive aspects of the students’ work with the class.
  3. What tips does Ms. Stewart share for how teachers can begin to use process praise in their classrooms? Ms. Stewart encourages teachers to use a script and to also have students share their specific goals that they have for the lesson.
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  • Private message to Lori Brewer

Hello team. My name is Lori Brewer and I teach second grade students in Healy. I've been in education for decades only in Alaska.  Half of my career has been in the special education realm.

The video, Praising the Process, featuring the star teacher Ms. Stewart is so inspirational. She makes teaching look so easy. She is genuine and positive with her feedback to her students giving them specific detailed feedback that pinpoints each student's personalized writing goal or could help a student create another goal.  She does mini-celebrations ono-on-one with students and showcaes students' accomplishments and goal success by sharing them with the entire class. She helps the students feel worthy through the process of writing.  I like the grid of goals on the wall where the students post their goals using Post-it notes. It keeps the students focused on their intentions and lets Ms. Stewart know where to direct her attention. This technique is feasible for the writing process in my classroom and could possiblly be used in math or other process oriented subject matter.

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Transcripts

  • Praising the Process Transcript

    Speaker 1: I want you to jot down on your Post-It your next little goal for yourself.

    Having

    Praising the Process Transcript

    Speaker 1: I want you to jot down on your Post-It your next little goal for yourself.

    Having a growth mindset means that you believe that your intelligence is malleable.

    It's time for writers. Writers. Writers. Writer's workshop.

    A writer's workshop model helps promote growth mindset because it gives students an opportunity to really focus on the process and the habits of mind of what it means to be a writer.

    Giving ourselves little goals or directions help us grow as writers.

    Speaker 2: [?] to make them move and talk.

    Speaker 1: You want to make your characters move and talk so your reader can really picture them. Awesome goal. Go get started on that.

    One thing I really focus on in my classroom is praising the process rather than praising the product.

    Speaker 3: [?].

    Speaker 1: That's such an important goal. You want your reader to really be able to read it so you're going to make sure you have really clear spaces between your words. Super important. Go get started.

    So rather than saying this product was really good, it breaks down for students what they did that helped them to accomplish that goal.

    You really make your characters come to life. You said like, "I'm lost."

    And it helps them to think about they can continue to grow and emphasize those strategies in their work.

    I wanted to teach you how to write a lead that hooks the reader.

    I also think that process praise helps build a growth mindset because it starts to become the language that students then use.

    You also have already thought of a problem.

    So if I'm praising their process then they can start to focus on the different things that they're doing well in their work and they then can begin to internalize that language and also use that in supporting partners.

    Speaker 2: My goal was to move and make my characters talk and I made it on [?].

    Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to your partner. So show us where you did that in your writing. Your goal was to make your characters talk. Can you show us a place where you did that in your writing? Whoa, you really made them come to life. Way to set a goal in your writing.

    You have set some great goals for yourself about what you're going to do next to take charge of your writing. Writers I'm going to give you 20 minutes to work on reaching these goals. If you reach this goal, set another little goal for yourself.

    How would you start it?

    Speaker 4: Austin tells his mother thanks.

    Speaker 1: That lead really hooked me because you told me not only what your character was doing, where your character was going, but also what your characters were saying. Nice job.

    Writers you are really taking charge of your writing. I saw Alexandra, she wanted to revise the beginning of her story so she went over to the writing center and she said, "I'm going to go revise the beginning." She got her revision [flat?]. Sarah really wants to work on making a strong ending so she set the goal, using her folder, that she is going to write an ending for her story to solve the problem. Writers all around the classroom, you're setting little goals and then reaching those goals.

    I try to make my process praise really authentic through really spending time looking at students' work. So before I have gone into a conference with a student I've really spent time looking through students' work so I can pinpoint what are those areas that I really want to celebrate with that student.

    I took your book home last night and I started reading it and you have done something really amazing. Can I tell you what you did that was super amazing? In the beginning you really made me picture where you're story's happening and what was happening. Awesome work, writer. So I was thinking, something you might start trying as a writer is writing in your piece about how your characters are feeling. Do you think you might like to try that out?

    Whoa, writers. Check this out. Look over here. Joshua discovered in his folder he has a realistic fiction checklist and he used it to see have I done all the things that realistic fiction writers do? Wow. You could try that too if you're feeling like, "What's my next goal?"

    I feel like if you really want to build your practice in terms of giving process praise, one of the best things that you can do is start to script out what you want to be saying. So have a little cheat sheet for yourself that you can carry around with you in a binder or on a clipboard.

    I can't wait to see you try that in your writing. Keep up the great work.

    I heard writers whispering directions to themselves like, "Imagine another character, think of an adventure, make sure my reader can read it."

    I first introduced process praise to my students through a lot of model. So my own self-talk was something that I think was really helpful when I was working through things in front of students.

    Awesome job. So putting your goal up there to celebrate that you met that goal.

    I also think that we create a lot of really clear visuals for students about what our goals are and then we can refer back to those in our process praise. So I think it just becomes the fabric of everything that we're doing in our classroom.

    Where did you reach that goal?

    Speaker 5: I elaborated on three pages.

    Speaker 1: You elaborated on three pages today? Would you hold it up to show us how you met that goal? Wow.

    I'm seeing some quiet, "Me too." Some other friends also elaborated in their writing today.

    I think that teaching students about growth mindset in the classroom really helps them to take ownership over their own learning, to be willing to take on challenges, to reflect on their mistakes, and that can carry beyond the classroom into their lives when they are no longer with me.

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