Today I finally got around to rewarding my little guys and girls for their good behavior last month! I try to do this right at the end of each month, but I always end up having to push it back a day or two because of special events, days off, you name it! Anyways, they spend all month working hard to earn behavior tickets which they keep in a little pocket inside the classroom. Every time I catch one of them doing something awesome I very publicly praise them and give them a ticket to stick in their “pocket”. The tickets are nothing special, I literally just printed out a ticket template and wrote “best behavior” on a bunch of them, but the prizes are what make them so exciting for the kids.
I used to give them candy, toys, pencils, stickers, etc… but after a few months of doing that I was tired of having to run out to the store the night before our trade-in day and spend my own money on these little prizes. SO, I researched some easier, cheaper, and more effective ways of handling this dilemma and found out that a lot of teachers use coupons for privileges as their rewards.
I created a set of printable coupons that I laminate and keep in a little Sterilite 5-drawer shelf that I can reuse every month. The kids trade in their tickets to buy the following privileges:
Teaching To The Test-Taker 