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I would like to work on making sure I am praising the effort more instead of the product. Julie Knuteson

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If  I praise the process more than the product, students build a confidence and resilience to be willing to tackle the next challenging activity. It helps to shape their growth mindset that their brain can stretch and grow, they can learn from their mistakes, and their effort is what is important. Julie Knuteson

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I will print a few of the resources that have been shared with us on various ways to praise effort to use until I feel comfortable with a repertoire of effort praise sayings under my belt.  Julie Knuteson

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I will do this for the 2020-2021 school year (and really for the rest of my teaching career). Luckily for my own children, I have started using many of these strategies at home already! Julie Knuteson

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I was guilty of saying, "you're so smart". Those words are now absent from my vocabulary!! I will focus on the process not the product. I will choose words like, "I like the way you are thinking". I will think carefully about the words I choose to use.

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The words I choose to use with my students will have a direct impact on their learning. I teach first graders and they really listen closely to the words I say. I want to make a positive impact not a negative impact. I want to help them develop a growth mindset not a fixed mindset.

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I do plan on printing out the resources that were shared with us in class. I want to have those phrases in front of my eyes until they just spill out of my mouth. I feel like they are there most of the time but there is definitely room for improvement!

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I have already printed out and laminated some of the posters that were shared in class. I will print out the rest of them when I am at school. Then when I am setting up my classroom, I will put them up on the board by my desk.

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I will be using the word "yet" a lot next year with my class. It's such a simple, yet powerful word and I can't believe I haven't discovered the value in it sooner! I also will focus my praise on student effort more and reword my praising in more meaningful ways.

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Using the word "yet" with my students will help them see that progress CAN be made. When a students now says to me "I can't do it," I can comeback with "not yet..." and help that student set a goal to achieve success. I also think it's important to focus praise on effort rather than, say, innate intelligence or talents because it will help all students work harder and show them that I appreciate all of the hard work they are doing. That's the key to making progress!

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For starters, I plan on printing a lot of the resources that have been provided to us in this course. I want to continue learning about growth mindset so I have a firm grasp on the correct language I should be using when helping my students develop a growth mindset.

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My timeline is "effective immediately." I will begin implementing growth mindset lessons into the 2020-2021 school year and continue doing so from this point forward both in my professional and personal life. Growth mindset doesn't just benefit education...it is a valuable mindset to have in all facets of life!

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I will be focusing on using praise for learning by focusing on the process and effort. I also want to be more specific with my praise.
-Shari Bishop

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Focusing on the right use of praise is important because it builds a growth mindset and helps students to move beyond what they know. By making the praise more specific students are able to continue the learning process instead of ending with empty praise.
-Shari Bishop

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I plan to use the resource that was shared where it gave different ideas of praise specific to having a growth mindset. I also plan to use student names in my comments more often.
-Shari Bishop

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I have already been practicing this with my children at home :) I plan to implement the strategy/feedback when we return in Fall 2020. My hope is that it becomes a habit and an integral part of my future as an educator.
-Shari Bishop

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I will work on praising the effort rather than the form. While I still still teach form and I think it is important, I think students willingness to try needs to be praised and will go further. =Morgan Serstad

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By praising the effort, students will be willing to try more. In PE, some students just are not strong enough yet to complete various activities. I do not want them to think they can't and never will. By praising their effort that will encourage them to keep trying.

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I will be putting various effort phrases into my powerpoints which guide my class. It will be a reminder for me as I flip to the next activity that I need to praise the effort and give better encouragement.

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I will start enhancing my powerpoints right away. I will begin praising when the school year starts! I hope this becomes part of my norm!

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I will shift to compliment the hard work and effort that my students put forth rather than their level of intelligence. Saying things like, "I can see you worked hard on your writing assignment" rather than "You are a smart student!"

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I want to instill a new level of confidence in my seventh graders. If I say something like, "You are so smart!" it gives the impression that they have met the goal and no further work is needed. However, when you shift that statement to, "You have worked so hard" it encourages them to continue putting forth effort in terms of meeting their desired goals.

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I plan to print out the PDF forms that focus on language shift and put them on my desk. This will be a reminder for me as I try to better encourage my students moving forward. I also plan to be more intentional with the feedback I provide to my students and making sure the language used promotes growth.

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I have already saved a few of the PDF documents to my laptop- they are ready to be printed off for the fall! I also hope to start my feedback goal right away in the fall as well.

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I want to practice praising the effort and the mindset shift more instead of focusing on the achievement that students make.

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Shifting our language is important because students need to know that if they try hard and stretch their thinking they are making great gains in the long run to achieve the end goal.

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I will try my best to use my own wait time before responding to students. It's so easy to just say what comes to our head first or what we normally say with students instead of reframing our language and thinking.

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I want to reflect on the language I am using with my students weekly to see if what I am saying to my students is making a difference.

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I want to make my praise toward the students more meaningful and instead of just saying great job I will focus on the work that went into the job and all of their effort.

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This is important because students are so used to hearing great job, good work. These comments are generic and have very little meaning. When we can praise them on their effort they are more willing to put in the work the next time and be proud of what they have accomplished.

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I will really work on using the list of resources for what to say instead of saying other things. I will be more conscience in my thinking and work on my wait time so I am able to formulate the thoughts fully and they will have more meaning.

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I plan to do this for all of next year and really hope that it sticks as I teach forever.  I would like to really focus on this at the beginning of the year a lot and reflect every week about how it is going.

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This is something I realized needs to change right away. As a choir teacher, I will lessen praise for students' natural ability. I will be much more intentional (and relentless) about praising the process of learning music. I will celebrate big mistakes made in class and make sure students feel comfortable making those mistakes. Also important is to intentionally recognize what we can learn from our mistakes.

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Praising the process of learning helps students see the value in working hard. If I can intentionally and effectively teach this way, I will foster an environment bursting with musical work ethic. By celebrating mistakes, I will permit students to take risks without fear of "Getting it wrong".

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I am going to post my goals as a reminder for myself and stick to a routine. Every year is a learning experience and I think the next year will show a really awesome change because of this blossoming mindset.

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I will implement from the very first day of school and use these strategies for my entire career. Things will change depending on my current students, but that is the beauty of a growth mindset. Work with what you have and build off of it. I fully intend on using some of the resources as visuals in my classroom!

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I would like to be intentional with my words when giving praise and feedback. I need to be sure I am praising the effort and strategies used, NOT the ability or talent the student has.

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This is important because students are listening to what we are saying, and if we are consistently reinforcing the idea that they are talented at something, they will fear taking on a challenge because they are nervous they will fail and we won't think they are talented anymore. On the other hand, if we consistently praise the effort, work, or strategies they used, they will attribute their success to their effort and be more willing to work hard in the future and take on challenges.

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In order to create this new habit, I will print off the "what to say vs what not to say" resource and hang it up by my desk or somewhere that will remind me to be intentional in my words. I can add to the list as well. I could also write "be intentional in your words" on a sticky note and stick it to my computer at school. This will serve as a daily reminder for me!

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I plan to begin implementing this change as soon as possible. I will try to intentionally use growth mindset words not just with my students, but with all of those around me. I spend a lot of time with my 2 year old niece, and will begin using growth mindset language with her. I will definitely implement this in the 2020-2021 school year with my second graders. I plan to explicitly teach growth mindset languages, as well as model it throughout the year in all subject areas.

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I would like to make sure I am a more positive person with the words that I use and what I think in my mind. I want to strive to be motivated and resilient in all situations.

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This is important because it will help me have a growth mindset instead of a fixed mindset. It will make sure that I have the power to control my mind and continue to be motivated and strengthened in empowering myself and abilities.

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I will think before I speak and I will think about the thoughts in my mind. If the words that I want to speak about are negative, I will not say these things. If my thoughts are negative, I will rethink these things in order to make them positive. This will help my mindset and also help me to be a more positive person.

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I too, want to make sure that my praise is meaningful and be sure to praise the effort. I want to stop saying just "good job" or "excellent work." I want my praise to be specific and meaningful and to focus on the effort not the outcome.

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I want students to be proud of themselves and not rely on others to make them feel good about their work. I also want students to be intrinsically motivated not extrinsically motivated.

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I am going to use some of the resources that were shared with us. I definitely want to put up the growth mindset phrases up in my classroom. I would like to use the resource that stated how to praise the effort and not the outcome. I plan on keeping these resources visible everywhere as a reminder to praise effort.

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I plan on starting this for the 2020-2021 school year right away with my students. I feel the sooner I start it the better it will be. This way students can start to learn the language and start to use the language right away too.

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I will plan on using even more positive comments for effort and celebrate the "not yet" model. Teaching PE, I use a lot of humor but I need to shift to a more keep trying approach. With as many kids I see in a class, I can get lost in trying to monitor vs. teaching style but I am going to focus my words on encouragement on attempts vs. success.

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This is important to me because I get so caught up with having 300+ students that it gets overwhelming. Looking back now, I know there are a handful of kids who did awesome in distance learning and could have done do much better face to face that they could have slipped through the cracks and vise-versa. The encouragement and everything I learned will help both of these types of students and all my students if I use it right.

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Our school is going through construction and we will be down to only 2 gyms so it will be huge class sizes combined with huge class sizes. The implementations I tried the last 2 years in this program will be HUGE. Allowing choice and the relationship building with all my kids will be a big part. letting them know and even engaging in activities with them showing that it is ok if you are not the best will be a big part as well. When I see struggles, asking, "what next, or how can you improve?" will be the next big step for me.

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This timeline will start now as I am thinking about how we will survive the next two years with half our gyms.  After that, it will be for the rest of my teaching career and beyond and I will pass along the successes to new teachers (not only PE) that have an open mind learning from an "older teacher" (gosh I hate saying that!!!)  True learning never ends, I have learned so much in the past few years from the "rookie teachers" in technology.
My thoughts are, you are never to late, early or prime to learn from those who have learned themselves.

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I plan on shifting the way I compliment my students. I was guilty in saying, "You are such a smartie!" or "I see how smart you are." Instead, I will compliment or praise my students on their effort and hard work!

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I feel that my students will grow more confident in the process rather than the product. I feel that if I say that they work hard or are putting in good effort that they will continue to do so. In result, their growth mindset will continue to grow and develop!

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I plan on printing the resources from this class and making a growth mindset resource binder, but I also want to create a collage of words or phrases to put near my desk. The more I see them, the better I will be at using them!

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I want to implement my language shift right away in the school year. I plan to have my binder and collage ready for the first day of school so I can be successful in giving the right kind of compliment or praise. This will be an on-going implementation for next school year and beyond!

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I plan to be more mindful of the type of praise I give my students. I want to give specific praise on their effort and their learning process instead of using phrases like "good job!" and "you're so smart!" I also want to help my students embrace their learning struggle with a growth mindset.

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By giving my students specific feedback and praise on their effort and individual learning process, I can model how important the learning process and struggle is over the end product. This will help my students understand that the journey to understanding is important and struggles help makes our brains stronger.

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I will teach mini lessons that teach the students how challenges help our brains grow stronger, and about persistence.  I also plan to organize the materials and resources from this class into a binder so I can look back on as needed and use to help me plan my mini lessons
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I will implement my plan throughout this upcoming school year. I will start as soon as I have my reading and math groups formed and continue throughout the school year with mini-lessons.

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I plan to be more aware of the words that I use with my students and specifically focusing on the praise and feedback.

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This is important because I want my students to know that I am focusing on their learning process and not just their talents and what they can do easily. I want my students to understand that it is okay to struggle and make mistakes during the process of learning.

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Since, I teach older students I am going to use videos and articles that were shared in this class. I am also going to implement some of the posters that were in the module as well! All of the resources provided were so powerful!

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I will start implementing some of the strategies now during my summer job with infants to preschoolers. I will start my plan in the beginning of next school year!

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I plan to make sure I model having a growth mindset for my students. I want to announce when I make a mistake and talk to them about how challenging work helps my brain to grow.

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It is important that I model having a growth mindset, because my students really look to me as a role model. I teach fairly young students and they learn a lot from watching me as their teacher. I think continuing to make it known that I make mistakes and face challenges will help my students to be more accepting of the mistakes and challenges they face.

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I plan to have posters available with phrases that coincide with having a growth mindset. I will model using some of these phrases with my students.

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I actually am currently practicing modeling having a growth mindset with a student I am tutoring over the summer. We talk a lot about how challenges help our brain grow. This will be practice for the next school year where I will try to implement it with my whole class. I will also print a few posters out over the summer so they are ready to put up in the Fall!

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I would like to make sure I am praising the effort that my students are putting forth!

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I learned that it is importnat because praising the outcomes will create a fixed mindset and may not allow for students to work through their mistakes.

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I want to create a wall of posters to show what language to use. This will serve as a reminder to me and to my students.

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I would like to work on giving more specific, process-focused feedback. I also want to use some sort of catch phase or call back as a cue to trigger student who are struggling back into growth mindset mode. Thinking I will let my students come up with this after we've built some background knowledge on what it means to have a growth mindset. -Sam Stormoen

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Success is measured by the amount of effort we put in and the grit we develop to learn from our mistakes and keep moving forward. If we want students to be successful, we need to focus on the process of success and celebrate along the way.

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This year I will be hyper-focused on growth mindset as it links directly to my action research. I want to immerse myself and my students (and hopefully their familes) in the language and belief system of growth mindset.

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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow...for the rest of my life. Growth mindset is investing in the process of becoming better day after day... picking yourself up after set-backs, putting in time and effort, and turning mistakes into opportunities. Oh, the Places You'll Go!

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I will start this goal in the 2020 school year. I hope that the skills I have learned will carry throughout my career.

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the thing that stands out to me the most is the word yet. I will be using this next year if we are online or in person and hope that my students see the value in it. I will praise the effort that students give and if they are not quite there with the end result I will let them know that they may not be there yet but will be very soon based off the effort and mindset they have.

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Everything we say to our students is important. We do not know how long a specific student holds onto our words and how it may affect them. By knowing this we can choose our language carefully and hopefully help them get to a growth mindset instead of a fixed mindset.

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I have printed off a few of the handouts and fliers that we saw throughout the course and will try to display them on schoology or in the classroom. Another thing that I am looking forward to is using the resource for giving praise to students throughout the year.

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I have already started collecting resources that should be beneficial for my students and am really hoping to implement a majority of these next year. It should not matter if we are online or in person I have the ability to get this important message across to my students through many different platforms.

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I want to be intentional with the feedback I am giving to students; I want to make sure I am focusing on the progress that they are making verses the end product they have completed. I want them to be able to see their growth and learning!

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This is important because I don't want my students to feel like they are held to an expectation of perfection. I want to make sure that we are always focusing on the progress we are making. I also want to tie this into goal setting and discussing that we have to walk before we run; things aren't going to happen overnight, and that's where our patience and perseverance comes into play. I think we could have super powerful conversations around these ideas of making progress and being intentional with the feedback and words I am using to praise my fourth grade students.

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The main strategy I plan to use is to make sure I have the word progress in my classroom. I have thought about creating or finding a poster that says, "Progress, not perfection" because I think that would be a helpful reminder for my students and me as we work day in and day out. I would also love to continue to research what type of feedback is most beneficial for students in order to make that progress.

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I plan to start this idea of being intentional with my feedback and praise as we head back to school in the fall, for the 2020-2021 school year. I am also interested in seeing if I can tie this into my action research that I will begin this summer!

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I will be using the word yet very frequently in my classes next year! I have a lot of students who truly believe they cannot participate in certain units because they don't have the right skill set. I struggled to motivate them to try but I know have the perfect shift in language. They just aren't at the skill level they want to be YET (:

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This is so important because my students who don't participate in sports outside of school are very closed off about PE. They tend not to try very hard or put in as little effort as possible, if I can shift their mindset that they just haven't mastered a skill yet, hopefully that will give them some internal motivation.

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I honestly will have to stay very aware of the language I am using in my class. I may even create or find a poster of growth mindset with "yet" explained within the poster so it can be a reminder to me and for my students!

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I plan to implement this shift in language by Fall of 2020. I want to find a poster before school starts so I can open our first few days of class with this growth mindset attitude. This way I can revisit it for the rest of the semester.

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I think the biggest shift in language would be when my students make mistakes. I will work to be positive when they make a mistake whether it be academic, social, or behavioral. I will talk about how they may not know how to do something yet, but the more they work and try the easier something will become and the less mistakes they will make.

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This is important because it will help my students to have confidence and not be afraid when they encounter a challenge. They will feel comfortable to try new things and not be devastated when they make a mistake or fail. This will hopefully help my students to learn more material and learn it more quickly.

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I will utilize posters and activities that will help my students get used to making mistakes and failing. I will use positive language and give my students strategies to improve or fix their mistakes.

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I will implement this language and these different strategies throughout the school year 2020-2021. I am in the unique situation of looping with my students from last year. This is something I can implement from day 1 because I will not have to go over routines as much because they already know our routines.

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I want to work on shifting the feedback I give my students and try to make sure I'm being very intentional in what I say.  I want to make sure I am focusing on the effort and the process, not the product.

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This is so important because students need to know that the work or effort they put into something is far more important than the end result that they get.

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I want to have a poster in my room that says "It's the journey, not the destination." I think having a visual that we can refer back to will be important for the kids. I also will need to refer to some of the resources we have been given in this class for examples of appropriate feedback.

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I want to implement this at the beginning of next year, 2020-2021. I want to have the poster ready so when we talk about our room it will be there right away. If we need to start the year with distance learning I will implement it into our morning meetings and lessons throughout the year.

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I can remember many times when I have told my students that they are very smart. Turns out those are not the right words to be using. It is important to use word that encourage the process rather than the end goal... for example, I see you worked really hard on that.

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Praising the process more than the products lets students know that their effort is more important than the end result.

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I am going to create a binder with many of the resources that we have gotten from this class. This will allow me to easily access these resources. I can quickly glance at things to say and then eventually my mind will be so used to saying them that I will use these sayings all throughout my teaching and at home.

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I will have these resources ready to go for the 2020-2021 school year. Even if we are in distance learning there are so many ways that I can still incorporate my shift of language in the virtual classroom.

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I would like to praise my students more with a specific task that they are doing and they effort that are doing it with!