Rewarding Good Behavior
Okay, so occasionally, in the middle school, my students are maniacs. Naturally, I don’t want to just punish the bad behavior, but allow the good students to stand out.
So I devised a plan. Though it’s nearly November, I figured better late than never.
I am going hand out little trinkets of currency for random acts of studious behavior. What that currency will be called, I don’t know (Behavior Bucks?). I’m open to ideas.
The students can then collect this currency and purchase certain “effects” to use. I suppose the rewards will range in “price”. I have a decent list so far, but I wanted to hear your ideas too…
- Homework pass
- Switch seats for a day
- Sit at teacher desk
- Extra +5 points on quiz/test
- Teacher for the day
- Free access to Lost & Found (usually they pay change to the missions)
- Selection from prize box (decorative pencils, etc.)
- Choose teams for next Mathletes competition (yes, MATHletes)
- Sit at couch for the day (yes, my principal wanted a couch in the room)
- Make up a name for Mr. Hall for the day (They can call me Mr. Booger or whatever, haha)
I’ll try to come up with some clever names for each reward.
Comments
I really like Behavior Bucks. And who cares that it’s almost November? It’s a great idea. How many students do you have? Will it be easy enough to reward the kids fairly?
oh hey we got good behavior currency when i was in third grade. every now and then the teacher would be like “you were all good today! everyone gets one!” and she’d give the first person in the row a stack and say “take one and pass them back!” this one kid in the middle row ALWAYS hid one under his hand so he got two, and the kid in the back of the row ALWAYS was like “you didn’t give us enough!”
the teacher never seemed to realize the one kid was stealing them. “wow justin, you’re the best behaved kid in class, you have so many!” if it happened enough for me (as an eight year old) to notice, SHE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN IT!
so i guess what i am trying to say is, i think it’s a good idea but WATCH OUT FOR SNEAKS!
I had a teacher who would reward us by adding macaroni noodles (raw) to a jar. Full jar = ? When she sick, we convinced the substitute to dump a few cups of noodles in. We were in 8th grade and completely hopeless so that system didn’t work for us. Yours sounds fun though. I like competing for prizes. Especially when it’s rewards for good behavior! Such. A. Nerd.
alycia said:I really like Behavior Bucks. And who cares that it’s almost November? It’s a great idea. How many students do you have? Will it be easy enough to reward the kids fairly?
I have 70 students total, throughout 5th-8th grade. I was going to make it random though, so they have to consistently behave properly if they ever hope to receive something.
maggie said:the teacher never seemed to realize the one kid was stealing them. “wow justin, you’re the best behaved kid in class, you have so many!” if it happened enough for me (as an eight year old) to notice, SHE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN IT!
I wonder about that stuff. I really don’t understand how teachers can miss things like that. But then I start thinking, “I haven’t missed anything like that… Oh god, who knows what they’ve been pulling off!”
We have “Good Time Tickets.” Get a bunch of dumb shit from the dollar store, and at the end of the month let them buy it.
Teacher for the day is an awful idea.
they’re gonna ask to call you mr. dbag or something
- Mr. Bator
- Mr. Lickenballs
- Mr. Babynuts
- Mr. Cockhair
- Mr. Pantysniffer
- Mr. NotGonnaWorkHereNextYear
- Dickhead
And that’s just what I could think of in a minute.
Hahahahaha, they’re not gonna make those names. One kid said she just wanted to be able to call me “dude.” I said, “it’s Mr. Dude to you.”
Sammy said:Teacher for the day is an awful idea.
No way. That could be incredibly educational.
“Here is the trap door in my desk where I keep my flask….And this is my ‘Tenure Countdown Calendar’….and here are the pens and pads on which I doodle my fantasies about what I want to do to the school administrators when they come and yell at me for giving a kid a bad grade and causing their parents to come in and complain to him….and these here on the desk….those are the stains of a thousand tears wept pondering the future of our society at the hands of you lazy, self-centered, ignorant sonsofbitches.”
HAHAHAHAH Mr. Cockhair!!!!!!!!
Act like Mr. Fanslaw for the day.
Supergrass Rules!
Act like Mr. Fanslaw for the day.
Supergrass Rules!
Presenting, the Behavior Buck
Are you going to add something to the Buck so the kids can’t copy them? You don’t want someone making real bucks off of your Bucks.
These should definitely have your face on them. Maybe even your childhood face of which masks were made not so long ago.
Fehavior Fuck.