Daily+Report+Cards

Daily Report Cards (DRC) are cards that have target behaviours (designed in collaboration by the school, parents and teachers) for individual students, with a reward system in place if the targets are reached. The DRC goes home every night and the reward system is also implemented at home. Feedback is given to the student after each lesson on how well they achieved their target behaviours. (Attitudemag, 2010). While most research on DRCs has focused on students with ADD or ADHD, DRCs can be used for any students who have difficulty reaching their target behaviors, no matter their age or needs.

Daily Report Cards are a fantastic teaching tool as, firstly, they incorporate both the student’s home and school life.The means that the student is consistently working towards their target behaviours no matter the setting. Secondly, DRCs not only give students goals to work towards each day (interrupt 3 times or less, stay on task etc.), the teachers are also required to provide feedback to the students after each lesson. This keeps the students working towards the target behaviours and the teacher monitoring their progress. Lastly, as the DRCs are completed daily and sent home to the parents, the teacher is much more likely to implement them, and vice versa for the parents. This also opens the gateways for good communication between the home and the school. (Fabiano et al 2010).

For more information on Daily Report Cards, Attitudemag have put together a very simple step by step guide about Daily Report Cards and how to make them [|here].

myADHD have provided a Daily Report Card template online that can be used. You can find it [|here].

References:

ADDitude Editors 2010, ADDitude: Living Well with Attention Deficit, New York, viewed 7July 2011, 

Fabiano, G., Vujnovic, R., Pelham, W., Waschbusch, D., Massetti, G., Pariseau, J., Yu, J., Robins, M., Carnefix, T., Greiner, A. and Volker, M., 2010, 'Enchancing the Effectiveness of Special Education Programming for Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Using a Daily Report Card', //School Psychology Review,// vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 219-239.