This term is already flying by......
I have one child in my classroom that is on a behaviour management plan and she has lots of other people who are supporting her. One thing I have been thinking about is changing her reward scheme.
Last year she loved Barbies and she would earn 'Barbie time.' She had to earn 4 barbie stickers to get this. Barbie time would be to play a game with a friend for 10 minutes. This also helped her social skills.
I adopted the exact same plan as this was working for her and it was familiar for her. Now into Term 2 I am finding the Barbie slightly frustrating. It can take her time to choose a game, she can be quite noisy and distracting when the game is being played and more time is taken up when it is time to pack up. I found it was taking up a lot of my time to preempt her when it was time to pack up and to constantly check if she was cleaning up the game.
We are very fortunate to have a school dog and she loves him to bits. So instead of earning Barbie time she now earns Benji time. This means that after she has earned 5 pictures of him she can go and pat him with a buddy 5 times. This takes less time and there is no mess to pack up. She then said that she would rather walk him. So to compromise I said that every fifth time she earns 'Benji time" she could take him for a walk with a buddy and an adult.
So far this is working really well. She is excited to go and see Benji and it is less time consuming for me :)!
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