Praise and Mindset

As educators we need to distinguish between person praise and process praise. A person praise focuses on the student’s personal traits and abilities, such as their talents and intelligence.  The second strategy that I used in my classroom to cultivate growth mindset is to focus on process praising.  Process praising emphases on the effort and the dedication that contributed to the success of the student.  To cultivate process praising in the classroom, educators need to give their students feedback that focuses on the process, effort, and strategy a student used to conquer the task. When teachers provide constructive feedback that focuses on the process of their students’ learning,  their students will become more motivated and confident to embrace any challenges.  Effective feedback that focuses on the process rather than the outcome helps students see themselves growing and learning.  To maximize students’ achievement, students need to receive feedback that is tied to their learning goals and inform them about their current progress and what they need to do to move to the next level.  Our students need to hear feedback while they are still working toward a learning goal, so they have an opportunity to use the feedback to move to the next level in their learning.  When feedback is given effectively, both the teacher and the student have the chance to work together effectively and set goals for further

Watch this video to understand more about process praising.            

To use this resource: make copies of feedback stems, cut them into strips, finish the stem by writing specific process feedback, and attach it to student’s work

To use this resource: make copies of feedback stems, cut them into strips, finish the stem by writing specific process feedback, and attach it to student’s work