Why should I do it:
- Provides students with positive feedback
- Students respond to positive reinforcement best
- Helps reinforce positive behaviors and expectations
- Provides incentive
- Increases motivation, buy-in, and effort
- Produces a challenge with a pay-off
- Creates incentive
- Improves behavior and academics
- Increases on task and attending behaviors
- Produces immediate and quick results
- Provides a visual concrete reason for students to work toward behavioral and academic goals
When should I do it:
- When students exhibit chronic behavioral problems
- When students demonstrate low and persistent motivation, effort, and interest
- When a student refuses to do work or follow behavior guidelines
- With oppositional and defiant students
- When students have poor attention and focus
- When students are impulsive
- When students consistently fail to meet behavioral and academic expectations
- When students frequently break the school and classroom rules
- When students have difficulty getting along with others or interact inappropriately with others
- When students have frequent incomplete and missing work
How do I do it:
- PBISWorld.com School Reward Dollars.pdf (simply type in your school name to customize them!)
- Give the student the Forced Choice Survey to determine what type of reward they prefer and will be most likely to work toward
- There are numerous reward systems and strategies, please click on and explore the links below to choose an idea(s)
- Some basic reward systems include:
- Token economy where students earn a token, check mark, sticker, etc for meeting predetermined goals, which they can use to buy or earn a reward after a certain number
- Praise for performing expected behaviors
- Earning privileges for meeting expectations
- Earning free time for meeting expectations
- Positive notes sent home for demonstrating good behavior and meeting expectations
- Small items as rewards for following rules and procedures, including stickers, erasers, trinkets, pencils, crayons, snacks, drinks, books, candy, etc
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