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The big take-aways for me this week were:
1. Continuing to use my mistakes as teachable moments, but really take the time to model or share my what my inner coach is telling me
2. Growth Mindset Language - It matters what we say and how we say it. What we say may not be the same message students receive and being more aware of our language could make a big difference in how students (and others in general) put forth effort and perceive the outcome of their work.

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A connection I made in this module was to how I teach my kids fluency in my classroom. Fluency is a big skill in 1st grade as they are beginning to read. As a class, we read sentences and highlight words that may come as a challenge to us. We write those words on our whiteboards and read them multiple times. Then, a few days later, we reread that sentence or paragraph, and discuss if we felt better about reading it. It shows my kids that making mistakes or not knowing something is OKAY! It's what we do afterwards that matters. I will continue to tell my kids when I make mistakes and continue to discuss what I can do next time to make progress.

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I really like the idea of having students give feedback by the Two Stars and a Wish strategy, I think that is a great way to get students to focus on positive throughout their peers work and making a wish is a great way of giving hope for the peer to include something in their paper.

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My two biggest takeaways this week are the importance of modeling mistakes for our students and praising effort over ability.

We all make mistakes and the activities in the module reminded me just how important it is to let our students see us make mistakes as well as model how to respond when we make a mistake.

I want to be more intentional with how and when I give feedback. I feel like I try to encourage the students, but I need to do a better job reflecting on how the feedback was received or what method worked best for the students.

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The biggest take away that I have is how intentional you have to be with the type of feedback you are giving as a teacher! I find myself giving praise very often to students, but i question the value of the praise and feedback I am giving. Giving is not the same as receiving and I need to be open to getting more feedback! I looking forward to implementing this next year when I am hoping to see my class in person!!

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This week really made me think about focusing on the bright spots in my life and in my students and looking at mistakes through that lens as well. It's so important to view mistakes as part of the learning process and something that will make us and our students better. I will continue to think about that and help my students see that when they make mistakes academically, behaviorally, socially, etc. I will also look for the positives more and try to do more of what is working, rather than less of what is not working.

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The main thing I took away from this was the importance of mistakes. Mistakes can be beneficial in many different ways. This can be helpful to us in our professional lives as well as our personal. I want to make sure that my students understand this and that they never feel bad about making a mistake in my classroom. The other thing was feedback and what I was given as feedback throughout my years of school was not the best way. If we only give feedback based off of correct results we really hurt a lot of other students in the room. I want to make sure and continue to improve with giving feedback to students based off of more than results. Effort is a big one! Those are the two main things I learned and would like to get better at in the future!

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My biggest takeaway from this week was the idea of praising effort vs ability. If you focus on the effort students will keep trying harder things and might make them better at overcoming future obstacles. Another big takeaway from this lesson is to find value in making mistakes. You can learn from mistakes! Just keep trying and moving forward!

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My biggest take away was to praise the process not the end product. When I reflected on this part, I have things in place that make this easy. It is always good practice to be reflective...are we doing the best we can? I also realized that I'm not giving specific feedback to mistakes my students are making on Seesaw assignments because I'm not there in person. I was giving specific feedback initially when we started distance learning. One of my students did an amazing job on his unit Math test. He missed one question. When I commented on that, he focused on missing the one question rather than getting everything else correct. I want to be able to give that feedback face to face, not over Seesaw.

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My biggest take away this week was praising effort over ability. I have learned this before, but it was a great reminder and reflection piece for me. In PE, there are some students that naturally are more gifted and shine in almost everything. However, by praising their natural abilities I am almost halting their future progress. I need to find ways to praise how hard they are working to keep them motivated and pushing to be even better.

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Something that's definitely sticking with me is the experiment on feedback. Since feedback has been a focus of mine this year, I want to take it another step further and make sure i am giving feedback on their progress they are making. I want to make sure that students feel praised throughout their learning process, and know that mistakes are a part of that process. I really want to focus on building students' perseverance and not giving up when they struggle with something. Lastly, I want to be intentional about giving MYSELF some more grace, since I give it so freely to everyone else around me.

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The biggest connection that I had is that we have to be more purposeful with our feedback and be careful to not praise ability and talent but to praise effort. I didn't not realize the impact that praising effort could have on students. The other big take away from this weeks learning is that it is so important to embrace our own mistakes in front of the students. We need to get rid of the shame that is tied to making mistakes. So children are more likely to take risks.

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The making mistakes part really hits home for me because I use it all the time. However the importance of feedback and praising the process is really something that I need to focus on improving and being intentional about. I think it would be beneficial for me to read up on some resources specific to music and giving feedback because it is so specific.

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This week I really related with the fact that it is so important to show students that we all make mistakes and what is important is that we grow from those mistakes.  A mistake doesn't have to be a bad thing that gives them anxiety and has them fearful to try again.  Along with allowing them to know it is ok to make mistakes It is also important to give them positive feedback on the effort they put into the task they are working on.  Going beyond praise of great job and good work.  There were a lot of little nuggets of information I will take with me through the last couple of weeks and into next year.

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A few ideas I have taken away from this week is to praise effort and how to give feedback to students. I would like to try the traffic light idea for peer feedback. I currently do not use a lot of peer feedback in my classroom, but I do think it could be a good skill to start to teach them. I like the idea of the traffic light, because we have been discussing how to highlight important information in a text. I think we can grow off of that idea with the use of using different colors to relate to areas that they may need to improve or areas that have reached the goal. So praise and feedback in general is something I want to work on. I also would like to get back to creating growth goals with my students. A couple of years ago, I had students make goals in regards to having a growth mindset. They wrote areas that they could improve and we posted them on the door with some growth mindset quotes. We would then go back to their goals at the end of trimester to see if they feel they had worked towards accomplishing their goals. It is very impactful and I want to get back to doing this with my students.

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The thing I liked the most about this week was the weekly scenario. It honestly felt good to admit out loud that I've covered up mistakes I've made in the classroom and pretended like they never happened. This is something I'm definitely going to takeaway from this week and change for next school year. Accepting that I make mistakes too and learning from them is me taking one more step in developing a growth mindset. It also will help my students see that mistakes are powerful and provide a way to grow as a learner. I won't feel ashamed when I make a mistake in front of my kids anymore, especially because I never expect them to feel ashamed when they make a mistake either.

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I really liked the reminder of feedback and mistakes. Feedback should be specific and meaningful. I also want to work on incorporating peer feedback. Often times students can learn more from their peers.
Mistakes: When I make mistakes I want to create a meaningful discussion about what I did and how I can try and make it correct.

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My biggest takeaway from this week is the importance of praising effort over ability. This is something that I would like to continue working on and being more intentional in the words I use. This week got me thinking about peer to peer feedback. This is not something I use as often as I'd like in my classroom. One of the resources gave a few great ideas for young learners. One that I would like to try is Two Stars and a Wish. This is an easy and organized way for students to provide feedback to each other in a way that feeds growth mindset. Another thing that was mentioned in one of the articles was giving students the opportunity to choose a classmate to help them when they have made a mistake in answering a question. This is something I already do in my classroom and I call it "phone a friend". If they make a mistake, I ask them a few questions about their thinking to process the mistake with them. If they still need support I ask them if they would like to phone a friend. They pretend to call a friend (put hand to ear like a phone) and say a classmates name. That classmate then puts their handphone to their ear and answers the question. The students love it and it is a fun, easy way to take the pressure off of somebody when they have made a mistake. It also builds community and trust amongst each other. Lastly, I love the idea of starting with what is right when a student gives a wrong answer. I sometimes struggle with what exactly to say when a student answers incorrectly, but it is so simple to point out what was right about their answer before supporting them in the process of obtaining the correct answer.

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I think a big takeaway from this week is implementing the right kind of peer feedback. I really enjoyed the resource on strategies to improve peer feedback. With this I reflected on how to get effective feedback with first graders and it comes down to modeling modeling modeling. I can't wait to use strategies such as the two stars and a wish, but its not going to be effective if I don't model appropriately!

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I resonated with many of the articles and videos during this weeks module. I was able to resonate with  things and also learn some new things and find some very beneficial take aways. One of the new learnings that I would like to implement in my classroom is the importance of peer feedback. This is something that I am not great at incorporating into my classroom and teaching. However, as I reflect on this learning, I realize how important it is to implement this into my classroom next fall when we are back.

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This week was a good reminder of how powerful our words are and how important it is to be mindful of the type of feedback we are giving to our students. This week's characteristics helped me reflect not only on the type of feedback I give my students, but also on the type of feedback I give my two daughters. I want them to have a growth mindset, just like I want that for my students, and these resources helped me reflect on how I can improve the feedback I give them. I loved how the movie clip called a mistake a "brilliant failure" and celebrated the mistake. I really liked the suggestion of a "wall of mistakes" where students can share what they learned from their mistakes.

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This weeks modules has really reinforced why giving constructive feedback is so important for students learning process. Giving them solid information on what they need to work on and giving them the tools to do so is setting them up for success. This module also reminded me the benefits of showing students that I make mistakes just like they do. That makes them feel comfortable making mistakes and brings them confidence for when they share those mistakes with me. They know I won't judge them because I also own up to my mistakes.

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I really liked the scenario for this week because it reminded me to relax and give myself grace for all of the mistakes I've made thru distance learning. It's so easy to get caught up in making things perfect and forget that in the end we just want students to learn the content and the habits of being a good student who tries. I am grateful for the reminder to take things slow and give myself grace during this time.

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I made so many connections during this learning about providing the correct type of feedback. I think the biggest take away I had that I hope to incorporate in my classroom is modeling student work with my class. This might mean talking about mistakes I make and the thought process I have in learning from those mistakes. It also might mean talking samples of student work and as a class implementing strategies like “Two Stars and a Wish” or “Traffic Lights.” Typically I would explain these strategies with my class and have them work through providing feedback with a peer, but so often I would skip right past the full class modeling and discussion step.

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This week was another reminder of how important it is to highlight our efforts and learn from our mistakes by falling forward. As I was working on my grad school work this morning my three, almost four, year old daughter picked up some juggling balls and tried to juggle. She was immediately frustrated and said she quit because it was too hard. I tried using a few of the praise on effort phrases I had pulled up when reflecting on an assignment. I will definitely be using the pdf of phrases at home more, as well as school, to help students and my children have a growth mindset. In school, I want to make sure that next year I emphasize more of the mistake making to know it is safe and okay for mistakes to happen. I have high expectations in my classroom, but that doesn't mean I expect everyone to be performing at the top level to be perfect. In my eyes perfection isn't the only thing. It relates back to a fixed mindset scenario where the student was concerned on being perfect. I understand this change in mindset and beliefs will be a process, but I'm eager to begin.

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I really connect with this weeks module by reflecting on how I conduct my PE classes, Coaching and Parenting.  In PE, I really feel we have shifted in the past few years from a skills based program to a participation based program.  Through this Master's program, I have implemented randomly picking teams (the kids get to pick one friend to be with) and when we do tournaments, I take pictures and post them on the wall to build community.  This is all about the process.  I also do Daily Challenges from time to time and have the kids end the class with giving each other a complement to 3 other students.
I stress to my athletes at the Varsity level that there will only be 1 state champion at your weight class and that means there are a lot of others that would love to be there.  As long as you work hard, learn from mistakes (that everyone makes) and keep making new goals, no matter the final outcome of your senior year, I will be there at your final match in tears taking that walk of pride in the back hall thanking you for all your hard work and dedication, even if you never win a match in your career............
As a parent of a 7 year old girl and 5 year old boy at home now......... God I'm glad I don't teach elementary!  Give me middle school kids anyday!  (I'm sure you elementary and high school teachers think I'm nuts!!)  Patience in the process of their development has made me soooooo humble and grateful!!

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So often the focus is on the accomplishments and trophy case. I was inspired by the idea of creating a mistakes wall in my classroom. I plan to call it "The Wall of Learning." This aligns with the focus on praising the process and effort in learning. It is not always about the outcome. I look forward to adding my own mistakes to the wall to begin modeling the process.  My hope is to have students display moments of failing forward in my classroom as well as other times throughout their school day or at home. We learn everywhere!