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Rewards and Positive Consequences
Strategies for Behavior Students
One of the greatest motivators to improve student behavior is to provide an incentive or reward for appropriate behaviors that occur over a defined period of time. Better yet if you let your student/child pick from the list below.
Become a helper to the custodian, librarian, another teacher or the office staff.
Become a class monitor for a specific area of need e.g., hall monitor, room check monitor, tidy monitor etc.
Helping a younger student with a learning task for a specified period of time.
Earn points for a class video.
15 minutes of free choice activity.
Work with a friend.
Wear your ball cap or favorite hat for a work period.
Read a comic book.
Show or tell the class something you have or did.
Have lunch with your favorite person or the teacher.
Read a story to the principal or to another class.
Hand out supplies for a defined number of activities.
Free time in another classroom.
Receive a positive note for home.
Pick something from the prize box.
Pick something from the treat box. (Keep it healthy, crackers, animal cookies, fruit, juice boxes, popcorn, granola bars, marshmallows etc.
Earn tickets toward free time.
Free pencil, pen or eraser.
Positive phone message or email home.
Free poster.
Free story for the whole class!(A strategy like this lets others help the student at risk stay on target.
Earn a cooking day for the class.
Take the bubble blower out a recess.
Free homework pass.
Leader for the day.
An additional gym period with another class (be sure to partner up with a teacher for exchanges like this one).
Listen to the radio or CD with a headset for a specified period of time
Have work posted in the hall or near the office.
Enjoy a game with a friend or in another class.
Be the leader for the first gym activity.
If nothing on this list interests the child, ask what type of incentive he/she believes would help him/her to obtain their behavior goals and help keep them on track.
You may wish to use a checkmark or sticker system and have the child reach a specified number prior to receiving the incentive. Have a look at some of the behavior plans here where a marking system is in place.
specialed.about.com
I especially like the sticker/points system. my students responded very well to that system and it was very good at keeping them in check, especially when the lost stickers and points due to bad behavior.
Peace
One of the greatest motivators to improve student behavior is to provide an incentive or reward for appropriate behaviors that occur over a defined period of time. Better yet if you let your student/child pick from the list below.
Become a helper to the custodian, librarian, another teacher or the office staff.
Become a class monitor for a specific area of need e.g., hall monitor, room check monitor, tidy monitor etc.
Helping a younger student with a learning task for a specified period of time.
Earn points for a class video.
15 minutes of free choice activity.
Work with a friend.
Wear your ball cap or favorite hat for a work period.
Read a comic book.
Show or tell the class something you have or did.
Have lunch with your favorite person or the teacher.
Read a story to the principal or to another class.
Hand out supplies for a defined number of activities.
Free time in another classroom.
Receive a positive note for home.
Pick something from the prize box.
Pick something from the treat box. (Keep it healthy, crackers, animal cookies, fruit, juice boxes, popcorn, granola bars, marshmallows etc.
Earn tickets toward free time.
Free pencil, pen or eraser.
Positive phone message or email home.
Free poster.
Free story for the whole class!(A strategy like this lets others help the student at risk stay on target.
Earn a cooking day for the class.
Take the bubble blower out a recess.
Free homework pass.
Leader for the day.
An additional gym period with another class (be sure to partner up with a teacher for exchanges like this one).
Listen to the radio or CD with a headset for a specified period of time
Have work posted in the hall or near the office.
Enjoy a game with a friend or in another class.
Be the leader for the first gym activity.
If nothing on this list interests the child, ask what type of incentive he/she believes would help him/her to obtain their behavior goals and help keep them on track.
You may wish to use a checkmark or sticker system and have the child reach a specified number prior to receiving the incentive. Have a look at some of the behavior plans here where a marking system is in place.
specialed.about.com
I especially like the sticker/points system. my students responded very well to that system and it was very good at keeping them in check, especially when the lost stickers and points due to bad behavior.
Peace
Comments on this journal
I've read some who are against them being used too much, because they encourage students to do things expecting an extrinsic reward instead of doing it for love of learning, for the reward of the activity itself. By the time they reach middle school - the glimmer of extrinsic reward wears off and if they are not intrinsically motivated they bomb - grades tend to drop big time in middle school on up because the kids aren't motivated anymore, they don't care.