star of the day

Home

Chat

Blogs

Collection

Directory

Home : 2004 : June : 12

star of the day
By RZ

Hi,

This isn't really a behaviour management thing, but more of an incentive. I thought I would share it with you though because it has worked wonders for me. (I am student teaching with 4 more weeks to go.)

I have a
sparkly hat which the star of the day gets to wear. I make a big thing out of it in the morning, to get the students really excited about it. They get to wear the hat, have a clap from the students and stick their photo on a chart on the wall i made (a bit like a grid with the days of the week at the top.) They then become my helper for the day, and can choose someone to help them when more

than one is needed. Also, every day someone gets to take the football to recess and lunch, so I make it this person at recess and they can choose someone at lunch to have it. I made it star of the day so everyone can have a go before my student teacher is over, but you could also extend it to star of the week or whatever. I don't know what your theme would be, but I guess you could adapt it to that as well? I bought the hat from Big W for about $2 but Im from Australia so Im not sure where you would get one from? I think maybe your walmart is like our big w?

Anyway, the students absolutely love this, and their behaviour is just mgic, since they all want to be star of the day. I hope this helps!

(Oh, and at recess and lunch they leave their hat in the clasroom so it doesnt get wrecked).