I started an SRA reading group with two... Difficult... 5th graders and I needed a way to help get them motivated and on task. This was my initial idea. I like and, and I'm using them, but I need to alter the rewards. We changed to them earning computer time daily but I still want to keep them motivated to earn treasure box as well. It's a work in progress, as is everything I am doing it seems!
I also needed some different ways to help teachers monitor certain classroom behaviors, especially since I'm not in the classrooms with my students the majority of the day. So I created some different tickets for them to use. The teachers provide the student with the number of tickets they are able to use for a day for a task they want. The example below show a bathroom ticket, break pass, and a Lego talk ticket. The student must turn in a ticket to do the desires task and once they run out for the day they cannot do it anymore. They receive the tickets back again the following day and start over. So far these are working really well, even for one of my most difficult students, he is routinely using his break ticket and even waiting IN CLASS for me to come take him for his break!
