motivational+ideas

**First Placement**

September 2, 2011


 * I created a catalog for students to pick something from if they behave well all week. Each day a student gets 3 sticks. If they have to move their clip (see classroom procedures), then they also lose a stick. If they have 15 sticks at the end of the week (this means they kept all their sticks every day and didn't have to move their clip any that week) then they get to choose an item from the "Best Beehavior Catalog". Below is the title page and a couple examples of what items they have to choose from.

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 * The teacher also has a treasure chest that the students can pick an item from if they have at least 13 sticks at the end of the week. This way even if they have to move their clip once, they are still motivated to behave well so they can pick an item from the treasure chest.
 * The teacher also motivates students to behave well and do well academically by giving out certificates at the end of each week for the math star, reading star, best citizen, best helper, and best behaved.
 * The teacher motivates students to have neat hand-writing by posting neatly written assignments on a bulletin board. The students love having their work displayed.

September 30, 2011


 * As a motivational force to get students to finish up their work, the teacher told them when they finished they could go to the reading room in the library. The reading room is a room with couches and other furniture where students can read books while listening to the audiobook on an iPod. This made the students try harder to finish quicker.

**Second placement:**


 * My second placement cooperating teacher gives the students tickets when they are behaving correctly. At the end of the week, she has a ticket store where the students can redeem their tickets for prizes.


 * The teacher also motivates the students to do all of their homework using the ticket store. If the students haven't turned in all of their homework assignments for the week they are not allowed to shop at the store.

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 * The students also all have buckets on their desk. If they do something nice for another student, the student can fill out a slip of paper thanking the other student for the nice act and put it in the bucket on their desk. The students love getting the slips, so this motivates them to be nice to each other.
 * The teacher also uses extra recess time as motivation. For example, if the students behave really well or finish their work in a timely manner, she will give them extra recess time.

October 11, 2011


 * The students had to go to the computer lab to take a math test instructed by the school to monitor the students' progress. My teacher told the students that they would get a ticket for each problem they answered correctly. I feel like this made the students pay more attention to each problem and try their hardest to work it out instead of just guessing at it if it seemed hard.

October 23, 2011


 * This morning the teacher made it a race between the tables to finish their morning work. She said that the first table to finish all of their morning work got 5 tickets. She'd been having a problem getting students to finish their morning work in a timely manner, so this motivated them to do it quickly to beat the other tables and earn tickets.

October 27, 2011


 * The teacher told the students today that she got to pick three of them to be special speakers in a Veteran's Day Program that the school was performing for Veteran's Day. She told them that she would pick the three that were the best behaved for that day and did all of their work. This motivated the students to be on their best behavior because they all wanted to get to go on stage and speak into the microphone.