As a long time music teacher....I LOVE your creativity, maturity and caring attitude. As teachers, we are also called to be lifelong learners. I learned some new things from you. Thanks for sharing.

In the child development classes I took in college, they mentioned to never use food as a way to reward good behavior. The reason is because some kids will get bored of it, other kids could be allergic. So what I do to manage behavior in my class is the red and green choices. When the students make a green choice, which is a positive choice in class they earn a star. At the end of the week if they have five stars then they get a small prize from the treasure box. The treasure box has little trinkets, toys and keychains and other fun stuff that kids like. I'm glad the skittles is working for her, but eventually she will get one student who either is not allowed to eat candy or is allergic.

Thank you for these pointers!

This is amazing! Thank-you for sharing!

Hi Ms. Heller. This CRM lesson/presentation (fieldwork observation time for my Grad School class too, btw) was absolutely OUTSTANDING! Thank You! Do you ever do classroom lessons. I would LOVE ... need, to see you doing your thing. Not polished "practiced" end products either, but just you doing ANY random day doing what you do. Would be really helpful. I KNOW there are parental permissions etc. But I also know many teachers get them and post them here. BTW: If yu have , NEVER MIND : ) But I think you said you don't really towards the end. Oh!! do you ever share that written guidelines/rubric-like lamented sheet for CRM. Would love to see that/incorporate that. I understand if not cuz I know how much time and effort you put in. But thought I'd ask. ALL GOOD EITHER WAY and THANKS AGAIN! You are amazing and oh so helpful. Thank You!

Love the idea of the count system you do. I do something similar to your piano thing for the whole class. I was struggling to figure out a system to reward the "good kids" definitely will be implementing something similar the beginning of January! Thanks for the ideas!

So helpful! I started the school year at my school 3 weeks late because their position was left vacant so I am trying to recover the discipline that I couldn't establish from the beginning. I am definitely going to implement this reward system. Also at a Title I school so thanks for the relatable advice

I so need this right now thank you!

This was really helpful! Love the idea of the reward 'days' for making it 5 or 10 days with good behavior. Also a great idea to track individual students. I'm sure the seating chart helps but do you have any special ways of learning names? I know it's way easier to discipline and reward behavior when you can direct your comments to students by name. Also how to explain these reward/behavior systems to the kids? Do you take time and do it all during the first class or disperse it throughout a few classes?

Love this idea! Do you have a copy of the rules that you showed in the video available for other teachers to use?

I subscribed and liked with notifications on😃👍🏻. I’m a 11th grade student in high school and I really want to be a teacher📚👏🏻. I like your reward system! It’s nice to reward good behavior and not to reward bad! Also, when do you get to use the restroom as a teacher and what is your restroom procedures in your classroom? I use it during lunch, passing periods, and before school and right after dismissal🚽. There are kids in my classes who abuse the privileges by walking around the halls😭🤦🏻‍♂️. My teachers limited our privileges by giving us 4 restroom passes per 9 weeks because of them kids! I ask to use it very occasionally and I only do when I really need to go. I use my passes for emergencies and most of the time I’ll have 1-2 passes left by the end of the 9 weeks!

I really like the HELLO song and the rewards that they have to work towards. I know from experience that the candy rewards are problematic for substitute teachers who don't know who has allergies or is diabetic.

I really like your discipline plan... rewarding the good kids is a great idea 💡

I really like this, but my school is really big on not giving food. ☹️

Nice!

This is so helpful! Thank you so much, You're very inspiring and seem very kind. I graduated this year and am interested in becoming a music teacher myself and was wondering how to apply the daily award system in a high school or even middle school setting. I believe they would get pickier and given the classroom setting with instruments, sugar would be bad for them to have both around the instruments and in their mouths when dealing with the instruments(even if its given at the end of the day, it may become a bad habit for them to get used to having food or drink/sugar in general near instruments [in the classroom])

Thank you so much for sharing!!!

I’ve been using this system all throughout this year. My kids have been so well behaved, so receptive and excited about their streaks, and they are accountable for their actions. Thank you for this! Also: I made the ridiculous choice to make their 20 day streak reward a $10 gift card. I’m on track to spend a lot of money. Lol. I don’t mind, because I’m very big on keeping my word. The kids accepted my challenge and behavior has been stellar. Advise on how to change the 20 day reward for next year?

Could I get a copy of the papers that you are showing?

Thanks for the post! Could you include a photo/pdf on your blog or somewhere to see the points/rewards sheet that you have? I'd love to see it close up.

Hi can you please explain what "color changes and card flips" are for k through 3rd? Do you use clip charts in music class for those grades?

Hi, 2nd year music teacher here and I have a question. For K-third grade, do you give the kids only one skittle per class period, or do you give them one skittle multiple times per class whenever they are dong what they are supposed to do? For instance, if "Jenny" is being very quiet during the whole video you can give her a skittle. Then, 5 minutes later, Jenny was again following directions with the dance steps right away so you gave her another skittle for that. Is that allowed or is it just one skittle per child per class period? Sorry, I hope that wasn't too confusing lol

Do you ever have where 5 kids earned it and they all want to do the light board that day? How do you deal with that. I am afraid with 30 min classes the choice making will take too long! If they are on day 5 do you let them quickly choose a reward at the beginning of class or do they think about it and choose for the next week?

Awesome ideas! I have one question though, do the students restart the streak after claiming the rewards?

What was the game?

What kinds of consequences do you give the students that are not doing what they should? I have students that I follow a similar reward system with but we are struggling with consequences for the ones that are not buying into it!!

What do you do for party music day

The big problem with this is that its nothing more than bribery. If we teach bribery when they're young they expect it when they're older.