Behavior Can Change :)

Last year(2012-2013) the 1st grade team tried to have a better solution to behavior management.  

When we were teaching in Kindergarten(2012-2013) we had themes; such as Apples on a tree. It worked where as the students get in trouble they went up to the bulletin board with the Apple Tree and move their apple down. They can move from the tree to 3 different buckets; yellow, orange then red.  I had Sail boats in the water that sank to different levels and another teacher used Monkeys dropping from the tree.  The down fall was students couldn't redeem themselves if they got in trouble and therefore their moods and listening went DOWN the drain for the day.. sometimes even the rest of the week!  Which I'm sure fellow teachers and parents know how hard it is to keep them behaving once they set out for a bad mood.

WE came up with a new behavior chart and have it utilizing our schools Leadership language to encourage the students to turn their day around.

I've seen it many times on Pinterest and we came up with our own.

Last year mine was on cute scrap book paper and printed the headers on them. Then we made them into a behavior continuum.

THIS year I made it solid COLORS! :D  Making it so much easier for the Open House nights, parents can see it and not have to remember the polka dots, strips, sunset area or mutli-shape area on the behavior chart.  I've seen this behavior chart be extremely effective because some students would start out in the middle on Ready to learn and move downwards then completely redeem themselves to the very top! This is also a visual for those who struggle and the next day they come in and make progress.

OHH I'm sure you are wondering what I use to move the students up and down with!??? Well Once this is laminated and hole punched at the top it will hang in my class room with a clothes pin with each students name on one. They all begin in the Middle on green and can go up or down.  I promise in 1st grade this works, I've also seen it in 2nd and yet again in the Kindergarten classes last year!

ENJOY! :)
~Mary