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I used tickets my first few years teaching... it worked well for what I was doing at the time... teaching gr 4-8 science only. When the kids got an A on a test or quiz they got 2 tickets. When they got a B they got 1 ticket.
They got one ticket for completing homework. They put their names on the back of the tickets and placed them in a laminated large envelope with the name of the prize they wanted - usually I had 4 or 5 to choose from. Then at the end of the month, I would draw a name from each envelope. The more tickets they earned, the more chances they got. I think the kids really appreciated

it.

I have also used money systems similar to the ones described here. I paid my students $32 a week, +5 for their classroom job. If they broke a rule they got a $5 fine. If they didn't do their homework they got a $10 fine. If they didn't do their classroom job, they lost $1 of their pay per day they didn't do the job. Dollars were given for good behavior above and beyond, etc. Every quarter, we'd hold a market day. Kids would make things at home like book marks, cookies, etc and "sell" them to their classmates. Some kids chose not to make anything and that's fine.
We also had an auction at the end of the year. I raffled off free items from scholastic, stuff my husband brought home from conferences, and "yard sale" type items that the families donated... like books they'd already read and video games they didn't play anymore, etc.