After beginning to look into token systems and
reading much information, I had a teacher share with me a program called,
“Class Dojo”. She was using this in her
classroom. When she brought her kids to
art class, she handed me her smart phone.
I just looked at her with a puzzled look I am sure! She then said, “Let
me show you real quick how to use this.”
She reported that since beginning to use this program “it was doing
wonders” with her students especially those that were having some issues.
This got me thinking…could I use this with all my
classes? Would this be a worthwhile
endeavor for me to set up a “dojo” for every one of the classrooms that I see
in a weeks’ time? Could I have each
class’s dojo on the smart bored and ready to go when they came into the
classroom? Could I have the students
give themselves points or take away points?
I believe this could work in the specials classroom.
As I see it, there are two ways to approach class
dojo in the art room. First, if you know
that the classroom teacher uses Class Dojo, as many in my main building do, you
can just use their classroom by logging into their account during the specials
class. This way the classroom teacher
has an account of the child’s ENTIRE day regardless of what class they are in
at the time.
Second, the specials teacher could make his/her
own accounts for each class that he/she teaches. This would enable the specials teacher to
keep his/her own data for just their classroom.
It would be easier to track a particular student for yourself. If all of the specials teacher would buy into
using this system you could make accounts for just the specialists to use for
each class. So you would then have data
on the students not only in art, but in music and physical education separate
from the classroom teachers. It might be
interesting to see how the students do with the different specials topics and
teachers. After collecting data for a
while with Class Dojo the specialists could read the data and share ideas of what
is working for this student and what is not working for that student.
I believe that I am going to give Class Dojo a try next year…I will keep
you posted as to the progress!
Check it out!!
Preschool Winter Art Project
Snowmen made from Pinecones with fiber-fill stuffed in the openings, baby socks made into hats and felt gloves, pipe cleaner noses, This year we made eyes out of felt but have used wiggly eyes in the past. Then students painted recycled boxes white and glued on packing peanut for snow and we put a bit of fiber-fill in the bottom and added the snowmen!
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