Behavior Management Strategy
There is nothing worse than having the best lesson ever ruined due to the behaviors in your classroom! I know we’ve all been there. You spend so much time planning and preparing for your lesson and then you have to stop every 30 seconds to a minute to get your students back on track. Not fun! (Especially if it is an observation lesson!)
You want to develop an effective behavior management strategy to create a positive and productive learning environment. One way to do this is to use positive reinforcement.
Positive reinforcement involves rewarding good behavior with praise, rewards, or other incentives. This encourages students to continue exhibiting the desired behavior and encourages a healthy learning environment.
Read on to learn about behavior management strategy you can use in your classroom today!
Quick and Easy Behavior Management Strategy
If your students are struggling to follow directions, you can use this quick and easy behavior management strategy to help.
This is helpful when you already use table points to reward your students for following directions. I have used table points for many years. The table with the most points at the end of the week earns a prize from the prize box. I used to just give out one point each time, but I tried switching it up to make it more engaging!
The students could earn 20 points instead of just 1! Yes, you read that right… 20 points!
I knew it didn’t matter how many points they got each time, but they bought into 20 points being so many points that it worked! The students were silent the whole time and completed their work!
Each table ended up earning 20 points and the students were super excited. They didn’t realize each table earned the same amount!
Bonus Star Table Points
When the newness of that wore off, I tried bonus star table points.
On the back of post-it notes, I wrote a number ranging from 1 to 5. I drew a star on the front of the post-it notes so the students couldn’t see the numbers through the post-it. Then I put the post-its on the board.
You can put as many bonus post-its you want and use whatever numbers you want to give out as bonus points. It is really up to you!
I paid careful attention to the students while they were working and I picked the one who followed directions the best to earn bonus points for his table. The first few times you introduce a new tool, you usually get buy in from everyone and they will make it hard for you to pick just one. You could choose to pick more than one student to earn bonus points.
My student picked the star he wanted and earned 3 bonus points for his table! I put the post-it back on the board and switched some of them around for the next student.
