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Old Jul 21, 2008, 07:21 AM
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Middle School Rewards System

I am currently revising my syllabus for the 2008-2009 school year, but I've run into a snag. I DO NOT want to continue using the rewards system I used last year. It was an experiment that did not work, but I would like to have a cheap and efficient way to reward students. What I used to do was give students stickers as rewards and they could redeem those stickers for candy or passes at the end of the week. Well, the students always wanted candy and my school will not pay for rewards so I ended up paying for the candy. And guys, candy is NOT cheap. Also it was kind of difficult to remember to give stickers every day when I teach 80+ students. We also had problems with other students stealing stickers, etc. I would like an easy, cheap, convenient and efficient rewards system. If anyone has ideas please advise. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

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Old Jul 22, 2008, 12:10 PM   #2  
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Ahhhh, always trial and error to see what works and what doesn't.....then tweak as necessary. We are not allowed to reward with candy, so many have done away with the skittles and found other means to boost motivation. I teach elementary, so some things just won't transfer to middle school....

What about:

*homework passes (not for use on projects or reports)
*extra computer time
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Old Jul 22, 2008, 12:35 PM   #3  
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We used to get 3 bathroom passes per six weeks (colored paper, teacher wrote the name in permanent red sharpie to cut down on reproductions), and each one we had left at the end of the six weeks we got 5 points added to our grade.

Also, as kind of the opposite thing here, when I was in elementary school, we had a chart on a clip board at the front of the class, and if we did something bad, didn't turn in homework, etc, we had to write our names on the board and our teacher would put a check by our names on the chart. Each thing bad we did after that, we got another checkmark on the chart (a weekly tally) and a check mark on the board next to our names. Three checkmarks on the board and we got sent to the principles. Bear in mind, I was in private school with 7 kids in the whole grade, so this worked nicely. I don't know about 80+ though.


I don't know if you could tweak these to work for you, but decided to comment anyway =D.
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