My original idea was to use the token system for
some behavior students…but many of these systems are geared more for a
classroom teacher with 20-30 students.
This is not possible for the specials teachers to do this will all the
classes that they see I thought until I stumbled across “The World’s Easiest
Token System for Behavior Management”!
Watson (2011) discusses the ins and outs of this
system. The token system is effective
because it DOES NOT require:
• you
to track each child’s behavior in order to penalize or reward
• the
entire class to ‘behave’ in order to be rewarded
• you
to punish those who did behave due to actions of those who didn’t
• the same behavioral standards
for everyone
• students
who are frequently in trouble to get all of the reinforcement
• any money to be spent on candy
or prizes
• the staging of elaborate rewards
• a
complicated class helper system (tokens assign to job privileges)
• class time that should be
spent on academics
• a
lot of maturity in students: even preschoolers can participate
In the specials classroom the teacher would have
to assign each student in each class a number.
Each class would get the explanation on how the system will work. Watson (2011) says to remind the students
that the teacher is the only person that can hand out the tokens and that
she/he is looking for good student behavior. Discuss with the students what
good behavior looks like and that the teacher will not reward every single time
and that the students will be surprised when it happens so they must be working
on that good behavior to get caught. The
teacher has a box of tokens (could be simple slips of paper) with numbers on
them for each student. When the student
gets “caught” one of the tokens with their number on it goes into the special
container. Watson (2011) also emphasizes
that token will be drawn for special duties in the classroom and can be drawn
many times a day for many tasks or jobs at the teachers discretion rather than
for purchased items. This could work well in a specials classroom however; the
teacher would have to be very organized and diligent about the student numbers.
I think this would take organization and follow
through on the teacher’s part but I feel like it could be very successful. This
would have to be a specials teacher that had a classroom and not someone who
travels on a cart from classroom to classroom.
Watson, A. (2011). The world’s easiest token system for behavior management
[Web log message]. Retrieved from http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/free-resources/behavior-management/token-system
Second Grade Circle Weaving
Second graders use a paper plate for a weaving project. Then we turn them into flowers with very large stems and hang them in the hallway like a flower garden. My students LOVE this project!
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