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Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition Marzano's Instructional strategy By Miguel Cintron

Students growing up amid challenges can develop an attitude that "failure is just around the corner," no matter what. Research makes clear the connection between effort and achievement—believing you can often makes it so.

“If I have the belief that I can **do it**, I shall surely acquire the capacity to **do it** even if I may not have it at the beginning.” - Mahatma Gandhi **Implementation**

**1. Teach the relationship between effort and achievement.**
 * Give students examples of major achievements.
 * Teachers can use the internet to find different stories of famous achievers and read or show the stories from their smart board.

Einstein was slow in learning how to speak. His parents even consulted a doctor. He also had a cheeky rebelliousness toward authority, which led one headmaster to expel him and another to amuse history by saying that he would never amount to much. But these traits helped make him a genius. His cocky contempt for authority led him to question conventional wisdom. His slow verbal development made him curious about ordinary things — such as space and time — that most adults take for granted. His father gave him a compass at age five, and he puzzled over the nature of a magnetic field for the rest of his life. And he tended to think in pictures rather than words.
 * 2. Reinforce Effort**
 * Students should be helped to internalize the value of effort to make a strong connection between effort and the desired outcome.


 * 3. Visual representation of effort may increase effort.**
 * Students who are helped to design an "effort log" using graphic representation will be more likely to see it in their mind's eye, and refer to it when working.
 * Students and Teachers can use Microsoft excel or Word to create charts and evaluate themselves.


 * 4. Create a class effort rubric.**


 * 5. Be careful about how and when recognition is provided.**
 * Ensure that praise and rewards are provided because an authentic standard of performance has been achieved. Doing an activity to a predetermined standard may well be worthy of reward and result in increased effort and motivation.
 * A teacher can use digital or video cameras to show classroom and individual student progress.

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 * 6. Recognize individual students for personal progress.**
 * When students have personal goals, or reach pre-determined standards of excellence, recognition is for personal achievement, which is unique to each student.
 * 7. Make clear the real goal of effort.**
 * "The harder you try, the more successful you are" is what the act of recognition should communicate to students, not "the harder you try, the more prizes you get."