Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition

 

This strategy deals mainly with student motivation.  Research shows that students may not realize the relationship between effort and achievement and that we must explicitly teach this to them.  Marzano states, "Students who believe the amount of effort they put into a task increases their achievement actually do better."  Research also states that rewards are most effective when contingent on successfully completing a specific goal. 

Marzano's recommendations for classroom practice include:

  • explicitly teach students that effort can improve achievement

  • ask students to chart effort and achievement

  • establish a rationale for recognition

  • follow guidelines for effective and ineffective praise

  • use recognition tokens

  • use the pause, prompt, and praise technique

Technology Integration:
 
Reinforcing Effort
Rubrics:
  • Effort and Achievement Rubric
    (rubric taken from A Handbook for Classroom Instruction That Works, Marzano, p. 99-100)
 
  • Create rubrics using RubiStar-
    • students use data from rubrics to create graphs with Excel
 
Websites/interactive activities that provide positive feedback:

 
PowerPoint games:  
   

 
Providing Recognition
 

 
 
  • Class webpages- share/highlight student work
 

 
  • Positive e-mails to parents
  • Student produced newscasts of notable events
 
Home  |  1-Similarities & Differences  |  2-Summarizing & Note-Taking  |  3-Effort & Recognition
4-Homework & Practice  |  5-Non-Linguistics Representations  |  6-Cooperative Learning
7-Objectives & Feedback  |  8-Hypotheses  |  9-Questions, Cues, & Adv. Organizers

created by Sherri Miller, ITRT, Gloucester County Public Schools
VSTE Conference ~ February, 2008