VisibleEffort

Everyone (as time allows): Post an idea or tool for using a data notebook in your classroom.

Assignment (for credit only): Design or modify a tool for helping students understand, make concrete, visualize, or track the relationship of their effort with their level of success.

__Effort Rubric for Reading__ Teachers could use a point system so that the students would recieve points based on number of minutes read and number of comprehension questions answered correctly. An example would be if you read 80 minutes or more and answered 8 comprehension questions correctly each week, you recieve an A. If you read 70 minutes and answered 7 comprehension questions correctly in a week, you would recieve a B. A visual for the students would be to use a stop watch or set a timer so that they would know how long they have read. They could have a reader's log to keep track of weekly minutes.

We think this would help the students be more successful because they would have their requirements right in front of them. It would help the student realize that the more they read, the easier the questions would be to answer.

This idea could also be adapted for all subjects.

- Bev Day and Elizabeth Stewart