CLASS MANAGEMENT. Classroom mangagement + first days of school. About ClassDojo. Differential. Rewarding kids in the 21st century. Read Part 1 of this post series: The day “reward” became a bad word Read Part 2 of this post series: Ideas for student rewards and incentives The whole-class behavior management system I used for the last few years I was teaching was something I created called the bead system.
It’s a simple premise: kids earn beads which are traded in at the end of the week for additional center time. Bead distribution was fairly random and unexpected: the kids never knew when they’d get one because I didn’t dangle the promise of reward ahead of time with bribes like “If you’re quiet, you’ll get a bead”. To be honest, I wasn’t sure exactly why the system worked so well until this week when I read Daniel Pink’s book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
Pink conducted a number of fascinating behavioral studies, including a bunch with children, to see what factors made them want to work hard and try their best. Instead of “if-then” rewards, Pink recommends “now that” rewards. HS_BEP_Handbook.doc. Reponse. Tool2_example.