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I disagree. If your child does something to the absolute best of his/her abilities, but is not very effective, isn't that still praiseworthy? I have a two year
by taylorwc 10y ago
I disagree. If your child does something to the absolute best of his/her abilities, but is not very effective, isn't that still praiseworthy?
I have a two year old who exhibits no mastery of the English language, but I praise her when she tries out a new word on for size and keeps attempting to perfect it.
- hashkb 10y agoYou're praising effective practicing habits. You can praise learning from mistakes. That's great. I always took "A for effort" to be extremely patronizing because I was trying to do the thing right.
- gohrt 10y agoThe problem is the "A", not the "A for effort". "A for results" just highlights an arbitrary bar that is likely too low or too high.
- IanCal 10y agoI guess a modification on that accounting for the expected performance would make sense.
- timthorn 10y agoIt might be praiseworthy, but I was talking from the perspective of using praise to improve attainment. Dweck has written about the misapplication of her theories in recent years: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/carol-dweck-revisits-the-growth-mindset.html http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/carol-dweck-rev...