Re: 2nd Grade Behavior Management

Paul You can always try it and abandon it if it isn't working. Giving group rewards or group punishments are hard esp when one chatty Kathy ruins it for everyone. Then I find I'll wind up bribing them sometimes by saying if you can be quiet you'll get a point, and I hate that. If you do it, I would start with say 10 points so they succeed in the beginni...See MoreYou can always try it and abandon it if it isn't working. Giving group rewards or group punishments are hard esp when one chatty Kathy ruins it for everyone. Then I find I'll wind up bribing them sometimes by saying if you can be quiet you'll get a point, and I hate that. If you do it, I would start with say 10 points so they succeed in the beginning then challenge them with higher point totals as they get better at it. Praise for the group doing well is enough for me without adding point values to it. I take two minutes away from a student for each rule infraction. And I have a host of ways to reward students including praise, certificates, recognition on a newsletter, eating in the classroom as a group reward, school-wide Gotcha stickers that we give out for good behavior. When we give that we give specific feedback so a child knows why they get it based on four traits: Respectful, Responsible, Kind, and Safe.

On 6/16/12, Charliethecow wrote: > I'm coming from K, so my perspective is completely different on it. > If I kept track of points during the day, I'd probably lose the > sheet somewhere in my room. I have a bean jar. I reward for > community building things - anything is available. I add scoops of > beans for the positive and take beans out for the negative. Our > music teacher does it for all age levels. > I have cows that make sounds/sing songs when you squeeze them. When > the jar is full, the class earns a squeeze of something. The jar is > empty, and we begin again. > When I taught K, I used to use play money for my behavior system. > Positive choices earned dollars and negative choices cost money. I > don't know if I will do it again since my new team may have a team > program. When I did it, I opened a store at the end of the month. I > brought in cookies (3 for $30), erasers ($5 each), etc. The Token > Economy stuff really does cost a lot of money. > My new team has playtime for the last 15 minutes of the day. I am > considering doing it for the beginning part of the day. If they drag > their feet getting to class, they miss out. If they don't have > homework, they get to play games with me rather than making a > choice. I've done this before, and it is so motivating. Since it > begins before the official start of the day, it really is only 10 > minutes of the school schedule (but it really is 30 minutes of kid > play time!).

Sep 3, 2012

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