Reward Systems

Reward Systems for Classroom Management

This marble management is a great idea for managing behaviors in the classroom. Displaying a "marble jar" like this on the board will motivate students to behave so they can earn a class reward. These images and texts can be printed and laminated and taped to the white board. Super simple! You can decide what your goal amount of marbles is and write it in with dry-erase marker. The great thing about this is you can always change the goal and make it higher as more of a challenge as time goes on. You can also change the reward. Rewards can be anything you choose. Perhaps you could do a pizza party (depending on allergies in your classroom!), movie day, or something as simple as letting students sit with a friend as pictured above. I recommend displaying it somewhere where the kids will constantly see it and be reminded to behave. Another way I did this in the past was having the reward, which in this case happened to be a picnic, spelled out in big letters and covered with construction paper displayed somewhere in the room. If you had a lesson that went well and all students behaved, you would then rip off one of the covers to reveal a letter. You would do this until the whole word is revealed and then the students would get the reward. This worked well except for the fact that I put it in a place where students could reach it so I would often find kids trying to sneak a peak under the paper covers. An easy fix to avoid this is to hang it high enough where the kids can't get to it!

Are your students often too chatty? You may want to keep reading for another classroom management tip: Blurt Beans! This is a reward system especially designed for those chatty groups of students. The goal is to fill the jar all the way to the top to earn multiple rewards. You can customize the rewards and prizes as you wish just using a piece of tape and a sharpie. A few ideas include: ice cream, movie day, and extra recess. The prizes should get better as the jar fills up. Having small prizes along the ways to the big prize makes it seem like the big prize isn't so far away. Every day, each kid gets 5 (or however many you decide) blurt beans to start the day. I recommend they keep them in a safe place like on their name tag or mailbox. The kids are responsible for keeping track of them. If they lose them, then that is on them, not you. If they blurt out or talk while you're talking, you immediately take away a bean from their collection in a discreet way. At the end of the day, all the kids drop their beans into the class rewards jar. Keep this as positive as possible. Remind them and show them how many beans are in the jar at the end of the day.