Look what I found in my email today from The Art of Education!!!! This is a great idea!! This would so work in the specials classrooms. The card could be changed to suit music or physical education, too! This would be a great way to start off the new school year!
Best Behavior BINGO: Free Download
By Sarah on Jun 09, 2014 12:00 am
Games are a classic student motivator, so what could be better than a classroom management (http://www.theartofed.com/2014/05/16/a-fresh-perspective-on-classroom-management/?mc_cid=f4bc35adb6&mc_eid=20c85bb4b5) game? How about one that is pretty much built for you!? Enter: Best Behavior Bingo.
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The idea is simple and easy to implement. Each class gets a bingo-style card posted in the art room. Just like a classic bingo card, the letters at the top spell BINGO. Instead of numbers, the squares are filled with behavior goals.
The best thing about the game is the cards can be the same because the classes aren’t necessarily competing with each other. If you want to get fancy you could create a unique card for each class and have them compete for the experiential rewards. Post the rewards with the BINGO cards and once a class wins one, indicate that it is no longer available by crossing it off. This adds another layer of motivation. Cards can last for quite awhile: once the row is complete move on to blackout!
This article was written by AOE Team member Sarah Dougherty. Sarah is the Visual Arts Curriculum Coordinator and Arts Integration Specialist for the largest school district in Iowa, prior to which she served as an elementary and HS art teacher for 7 years.
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The idea is simple and easy to implement. Each class gets a bingo-style card posted in the art room. Just like a classic bingo card, the letters at the top spell BINGO. Instead of numbers, the squares are filled with behavior goals.
Here is how I run the game…
- It’s a carrot. I dangle it up until the very end of class as a way to keep kids focused. Carrots are not guaranteed! If we have a particularly rough class, we don’t mark a square. Classes who are on point may get to mark two squares.
- I use real bingo markers and let a student with “BINGO Behavior” mark the square, usually after we have lined up to leave the classroom. (Sometimes it works as a positive reinforcer to encourage continuing good behavior in the middle of the period.) The markers are cheap, and you can color code your classes.
- Once a class has earned a row or column of five BINGO Behaviors, they get to vote on a pre-determined experiential reward (modeling clay day, sidewalk chalk, art centers, lunch with me, etc.).
The best thing about the game is the cards can be the same because the classes aren’t necessarily competing with each other. If you want to get fancy you could create a unique card for each class and have them compete for the experiential rewards. Post the rewards with the BINGO cards and once a class wins one, indicate that it is no longer available by crossing it off. This adds another layer of motivation. Cards can last for quite awhile: once the row is complete move on to blackout!
You can download a PDF version of our Best Behavior BINGO card by clicking http://www.theartofed.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Best-Behavior-Bingo.pdf?mc_cid=f4bc35adb6&mc_eid=20c85bb4b5
If you’d like a customizable version, please click http://www.theartofed.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Best-Behavior-Bingo.docx?mc_cid=f4bc35adb6&mc_eid=20c85bb4b5!
How do you make following the rules fun in your room?
Would you consider using this in your classroom? Why or why not?
This article was written by AOE Team member Sarah Dougherty. Sarah is the Visual Arts Curriculum Coordinator and Arts Integration Specialist for the largest school district in Iowa, prior to which she served as an elementary and HS art teacher for 7 years.
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