Accentuate the Positives!

Cheryl BennettMid-Carolina Middle Schoolcbennett@newberry.k12.sc.us

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Student of the Day

First week create Name Wordle or Tagxedo www.wordle.net sample wordle www.tagxedo.com Sample tagxedo

Student of the Day Wordle or Tagxedo on bulletin board—

change daily STD bulletin board Camera Wireless mouse Wrist rest Flexible keyboard Anything in your room that you only have 1

or 2

Student of the Day privileges

2-3 photos Use special equipment Special chair Special privileges

Leave first Pass out papers Free homework pass Other suggestions

Student of the Day Photos

Every 2-3 weeks, open class with slide show of photos.

Save photos in folder to desktop Open and View as a slide show Edit and rotate photos as needed

before student viewing Builds class unity and community

Awards

Good behavior—weekly Great techniques—weekly Hard worker—weekly Smiley—weekly

Interim Awards

Student of the Month—highest average Photo on bulletin board certificate

End of 9 weeks awards

Student of the Month—highest average photo on bulletin board 2nd & 3rd highest averages

Perfect attendance Best behaved Most improved Best helper

End of 9 Weeks Awards

Cinnamon & Spice Politician award Best reader Mathematician award Speedy award Other ideas?

Awards Students love to receive recognition!

Think of all kinds of things to use for awards:

Birthdays Outstanding work on an assignment good citizenship being a teacher helper helping a fellow student

Awards recognitions for outside achievements--

sports, 4H, dance Grade Changing Award--most improved

grade On time and ready Stumped the teacher award best artist technology support award A Tip of the Hat--student who is extra

polite

Fun Activities

Tongue twisters about your subject Have students create a tongue twister

about the last topic you studied Team/pair competitions

Activities Alphabetic list (your subject topics for

ABC list) Prizes, prizes, prizes

Candy Pencils, etc Pizza party Stickers Leaving first

Activities Power Point Parade

Students evaluate each others presentations

Checksheet with names Saves presentation time & all can see

Prizes always motivate! Students secretly vote for best--prize

CelebrationsCreate an excuse for a celebration:

everyone completed the homework everyone passed an objective end of testing a month of no tardies everyone passed quiz or test

Celebrations can be as small as a piece of candy or 5 minutes of talk time. They can be as big as a pizza party at lunch or recess.

Cheers Students love cheers. Celebrate completion, participation, or acquisition of skills or

knowledge Truckers cheer

Fist in air, pull down twice saying Whoo, whoo. Then put fist to mouth for CB and say Good job, good buddy.

Roller coaster cheer Chig, chig, chig to top, then whee down the hills

Fireworks cheer POW upwards, then cheee, cheee downward

More cheers WOW

3 fingers W, Open mouth, 3 fingers W Fantastic

Squirt bottle 3 times, then make circle with flat palm and say Fantastic, Fantastic!

Give yourself a gold star Kiss index finger and touch to forehead

2 Adjectives cheer Choose 2 words/phrases and repeat (Wow!

Keep it up)

Class building

Scavenger hunts New friend scavenger hunt

http://712educators.about.com/od/icebreakers/a/scavengerhunt.htm

Getting to know you hunt

Icebreakers Icebreakers

http://712educators.about.com/cs/icebreakers/a/icebreakers.htm

Crossword connection Find your kind Take a stand Birthday lineup

Find 10 things in common http://humanresources.about.com/od/

icebreakers/a/icebreaker_com.htm

Reasons to do Classbuilding

Build positive student relations Enhances classroom environment & lets

everyone have fun Reduce discipline problems Increase motivation & learning Promote diversity skills Develop synergy Boost self esteem

Building class community www.fmucenterofexcellence.org

Scroll down to presentations on left Find Building classroom community

ideas Lots of great ideas to use for class

building www.kaganonline.com

Ideas for class & team building Smart cards $4, books $29

Classbuilding

Corners Find someone who Inside-outside circle Line-ups Similarity groups Who am I?—secret identity cards

Learning chips Choose a chip

Choose from face up questions (chips) and respond in group

Draw a chip Choose from face down questions (chips)

and respond in group Purchase or make own set

www.kagononline.com Also good for review & discussion

Tips

Wireless keyboard & mouse Teach from 2 stations

Wireless mouse to advance PP slides $1 earphones from Dollar Store White boards and markers

$1 from Dollar Store

Tips

Technique check sheet—import names from Power Teacher

Names in gradebook—in Power teacher, use demographics report—lines are same width as gradebook.

Clickers Quizzes Opinion polls

Websites www.DropItTo.Me

Must have a Dropbox account (free) Opt not to have email notifications

www.TweenTribune.com www.Wordle.net www.Tagzedo.com www.teacherpresentation.wikispaces.com Tom’s Autograph Page

http://www.digiulio.com/sports-team-addresses.html

Sharing Time

What strategies do you use to accentuate the positives in your classroom?

How do you get all students to use only one piece of technology or tool?

Other ideas