Reward+Ideas

=Reward Ideas and Examples=

Rewarding children for achieving goals, completing work and behaving well in class can be very effective in keeping a positive classroom environment working. Stickers, charts and term long goals can be a good way of rewarding students, here are a few examples from Teaching Ideas, a British website:

=Super Stars!= This is a simple reward system for younger students. On the board you draw a star and leave space for students' names below. Explain that you have a super star list and need to add names. Names can be added to the list for anything. When the class is rowdy or off task say to them "Twinkle Twinkle Super Star, Can I See Where You Are?". That gets their attention and them on task! You can expand on this in any way, such as giving out star stickers and having the star students do special jobs for you.

=Big Bucks= In this day and age of teaching, we as educators spend far too much time dealing with negative behaviour. I use my BIg Bucks system to focus on the positive and use positive peer pressure to correct the negative. It is simple and can be moulded to fit your needs. It requires no paper work or record keeping and can be used in your class or school wide. I would not teach with out it! I give virtual money for behaviours I like and take for the behaviours I want to eliminate. Kids love $$ and don't want to have to pay me! I have an auction twice a year for them to have spending opportunities (donated stuff) and I sell simple things like activity time, raffle tickets (for some small items or a bundle of little items I have collected from bargin bins in local stores). It does not cost much to run and parents will help you. Hope this helps.

=Golden Wall= To encourage the use of circle time in the classroom at the beginning of a new term and to reinforce them throughout the school year, use a Golden Wall. Have your golden rules displayed prominently in the classroom and dedicate a wall space to them. With a roll of gold paper, stick the paper to the wall from top to bottom. Everytime a child adheres to a golden rule, or your golden rule focus for that week, ask the child to get a sticky label, write their name and stcik to the Golden Wall. At the end of a half term cut out all the labels from the wall and put in a hat/ box. The name pulled out wins a reward for sticking to the Golden Rules. Obviously the more times a child's name is on the wall, the more chance they have of winning that reward! This works wonders and reallly gets the children to adhere to the Golden Rules...well, most of the time!

All of these can be used in inclusive classrooms, and can work with diverse learners. Especially for learners with behavioural disabilities, reward programs can be great.

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/more/management/contents_rewardideas.htm