classroom management
Speak of the Devil: Extrinsic incentives
I subscribe to love and logic email updates and just received this in my email inbox today =p. You’ll understand this if you go to the entry on 10.08.07
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Don’t Pay Kids to Be Good
“Can you believe it?” seven-year-old Kayla’s mom moaned to her friend. “I have [...]
I’m kinda sad that I have given in to extrinsic rewards to motivate and control my students.
So far I have a few systems in place.
1. Group motivation- whenever a group is on task and seems to be cooperating, I will give them an apple sticker and which ever group that accumulates the most apple stickers [...]
I need to make a ton of deposits b/c i think I’ve withdrawn too much.
Since the beginning of the school year, I’ve already made about a thousand boo boos. Now i’m feeling stuck and don’t know how to remedy these relationships. Many of my middle school students have given me attitude and in retrospect, the way I have responded to them has been really inappropriate.
I have let them get [...]
“You can’t take a withdrawal from an account when there have been no deposits.”
It’s Monday and I am already drained and almost on the verge of depression. It’s horrible. I’m trying to regain my energy and figure out a way to regain control and keep my cool.
My classroom management is dying now and I’m disappointed in the person I have become. I am ashamed of what I have [...]
My FIRST, “I don’t know if I’m going to survive” Moment
So yesterday, I had my first panicky moment. I didn’t breakdown, but my stress level definitely peaked yesterday.
The reason why was I’ve been having a major problem getting through to the 6th graders. They just had no respect for me or gave me a chance to present myself the first day I saw them.
FYI [...]
