1. The Fundamental 5: The Formula for Quality Instruction
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Recognize
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purposeful
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The Fundamental 5: The Formula for Quality Instruction

2. Academic issues and Social and behavioral Issues
Academic recognition –
Readily give recognition to the high achievers
Miss the opportunity to recognize the interim levels
Academic reinforcement –
Reinforcement of the work/effort it takes to achieve a certain level of academic success.
Observant teachers will notice significant amounts of effort on a student’s part and will act based on this understanding.

3. Benefits of Academic Reinforcement and Recognition
Recognition of success at any level provides students with the motivation to continue in their pursuit of academic success.
Reinforcement –
Reinforcement of the work/effort it takes to achieve academic success builds habits. The harder you try, the more successful you are.

4. Social and behavioral Issues
Recognition –
from the social and behavioral perspective, R & R addresses the principles of personalization and specificity
Personalization – simply providing clarity in relation to who is being addressed.
Specificity – addresses the need to clearly state the behavior or action that warranted the attention.
Reinforcement -
the reinforcement of the behaviors that the teacher wants to see more of, and the removal of reinforcement for behaviors that the teacher wants to see less of.

5. Implementation
Create a list of 2 to 5 targeted student behaviors or accomplishments you want to encourage
Personalization and specificity
Frequency and quality is key = revise the list and add new ones
Recognize student effort and improvement
An A is worthy of celebration but so is a 15 point improvement
Teachers need to rely on and support one another
The willingness to ask for and/or offer help changes the dynamics of the PLC from….
one where many pretend to be perfect
to one that recognizes that improvement in INSTRUCTIONAL craft requires COLLABORATION and SUPPORT.