Why should I do it:
- Helps teachers with time and class management
- Teaches students responsibility
- Helps students to build self-confidence and purpose
- Creates student buy-in
- Creates a sense of ownership in students
- Builds class cohesiveness
- Helps kids with behavior problems and attention seeking behaviors receive positive feedback and attention
- Helps students with poor behaviors redirect their energies toward positive behaviors
- Helps kids with ADHD and who are hyper or overactive do a physical task and move around
When should I do it:
- When a student is easily distracted and is frequently losing focus
- With students who are hyper
- With students that seem withdrawn or isolated
- With students that have poor self-concept, self-confidence, and/or self-esteem
- When there is a lot of conflict or disunity in the class
- With students that have trouble with academics
- With students who act out or exhibit behavior problems
- With students that seek negative attention
How do I do it:
- Speak with the student(s) you want to assign jobs to and emphasize how important the job is and their participation
- Use jobs as an opportunity to give a lot of positive praise and attention
- Give the student choices, presenting them with several jobs to choose from
- You may consider setting up a system where all students in class receive jobs in order to build class cohesiveness, unity, pride, and rapport
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