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Reinforcing Effort and Providing Feedback
Recognition
  • Personalize recognition
  • Pause, prompt, and praise
  • Concrete symbolic recognition

    Students:
  • Not all students realize the importance of believing in effort
  • Students can learn to change their beliefs to an emphasis on effort
  • Students need to see the connection themselves (effort and achievement rubrics)
  • Resources

    Teacher
  • Guidelines For Effective praise
  • Students in 7th grade Geography spend the first two weeks of school studying what is "effort". Watch this Quicktime video of students explaining the process!
  • Lesson Examples
    Technology Connection
  • Create Certificates using Microsoft Word or PowerPoint
  • Create Rubrics
  • Electronic Portfolios
  • Email to student's home

    • Effort and Achievement Template (P.52-53) Click Download Button
  • Excel
  • Effort and Achievement Chart
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