Teaching Effort

The WE Effort- Achievement Dynamic (EAD) is a Wholistic Education^™ principle which seeks to explicitly and implicitly teach and exemplify the connection between effort and achievement.

Research and Theory on Reinforcing Effort tells us,

1. Not all students realize the importance of believing in effort.

2. Students can learn to change their belief to include an emphasis on effort.

Students might not be aware of the importance of believing in effort, but they can be taught. A remedy for this is for educators (especially classroom teachers) to make sure that explicitly teach and exemplify the connection between effort and achievement.

“Students who were taught about the relationship between effort and achievement increased their achievement more than students who were taught techniques for time management and comprehension of new material” (Van Overwalle & DeMetsenaere,1990 ).

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