Praise-Its

I am linking up with Rachelle and Natalie of What the Teacher Wants for a Behavior Management Linky Party.  

Some stars must have aligned perfectly, because I literally just finished creating my new positive behavior management system.  

I am so excited about this!  

In my classroom, I already have one behavior management system in place.  In my county they use a red, yellow, green clip chart.  

We are not required to use this system, but I decided to so that my kiddies had some constancy.  Here is my twist on the basic chart:

   

All students start on green each day, which means they are swinging free.  If a student makes a poor choice, receives a warning, and makes another poor choice, that student moves down to yellow, which means they need to watch out.  And finally, if a student makes an extremely poor choice or has been spoken to multiple times throughout the day, that student moves to red.  At this time, I will contact the parent via email or phone to discuss what happened. 

This system has been working well with my students.  

But I also wanted to develop a system to reward positive behaviors.  

So I came up with: 

I think that it is SO important to reward positive behaviors.  I think it is important to acknowledge what we expect and hope for from students.  Acknowledging those positive behaviors is also a motivator for those students who haven't demonstrated those behaviors before.  Here is the letter I wrote to parents and included in this freebie pack that explains the system.

Here are the Praise-Its:

Here is the label for the envelope:

 I attached the label to the envelope with a piece of contact paper, 

that way the label is protected.

I plan on stapling the envelope to the back of their folder in their binders.  

 Here is the poster to hang in your classroom 

to post your goal of Praise-Its to receive a reward:

I will be sure to keep you up to date on how the kiddies are doing with this new program!  If you would like to grab a copy of the FREE pack, 

just click on the picture below :)