REINFORCING EFFORT AND PROVIDING RECOGNITION Classroom Recommendations
المؤلف:
Jane D. Hill Kathleen M. Flynn
المصدر:
Classroom Instruction that works with English Language Learners
الجزء والصفحة:
P93-C9
2025-09-15
305
REINFORCING EFFORT AND PROVIDING RECOGNITION
Classroom Recommendations
Classroom Instruction That Works offers three recommendations for recognition in classroom practice.
1. Personalize recognition. A good time to do this is following the achievement of a specific performance goal. Because praise is most influential when attached to goal attainment, you are encouraged to ask students to identify the targets to be achieved.
Although ELLs may have different targets than English-dominant students, the ways in which you personalize recognition will be the same in many instances. If you choose to send letters home to parents when targets have been met, be sure to have them in a language the parents will understand (if possible).
2. Use the pause-prompt-praise strategy. This strategy is most effective when used with a student who is struggling with a particular task. The “pause” component of the strategy is implemented when the student is in the middle of a difficult task. Ask the student to stop for a moment. During this pause, talk about the difficulty the student is experiencing. During the “prompt” stage, you give the student specific suggestions on ways to improve performance. If the student’s performance improves as a result of the pausing and prompting, you provide “praise.”
The following scenario provides an example of how to implement the pause-prompt-praise strategy. An ELL was struggling with long division. His frustration must have been obvious, because the teacher stopped at his desk and asked him to put down his pencil. When the teacher saw that he was making mistakes mainly because his columns were sloppy, she gave him a piece of graph paper and showed him how to use it. He was surprised at how well it worked. The next time the teacher stopped at his desk, it was to congratulate him on having completed four problems with no mistakes.
3. Use concrete symbols of recognition. In addition to verbal acknowledgment, concrete symbols of recognition can include such items as awards, certificates, or coupons. These can be given for attaining a certain performance goal, but should not be provided for simply completing a task. These tokens of praise should not be offered as rewards per se, but simply as concrete symbols of recognition. Different students might enjoy different types of tokens. For ELLs, a happy face sticker can have more meaning than a written comment.
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