Would you go to work everyday if there was no payoff? I mean just seeing the kids be successful should be enough for you. Aren’t you intrinsically motiviated to keep teaching because of the feelings of pride and accomplishment you achieve as part of your job on a daily basis? I imagine somedays you might feel that way, but on most days you do it for the paycheck. I know you are going to say, but you have bills to pay, but be honest with yourself if you were independently wealthy and didn’t need the money would you continue to teach every day for the good internal feelings you get? We all work for external rewards. Young students especially those just starting out in school often need concrete ways to measure their sucess and outside motivators to let them know they are doing a great job. So many people use rewards incorrectly and not properly and do not get good results, but if done right it can really help you out. Do you want your students to work for the reward or just try to stay out of trouble. Many teachers who have well behaved classes but do not use rewards of some kind often are ruling with fear and punishment. I am not saying every students needs an individual sticker chart. There are lots of great group contingency programs that you can use in your classroom, however some of the students who are really struggling may need more individual and concrete reward systems. If that one student you had only needed a sticker every 15 minutes to behave. In my opinion that is a pretty cheap pay off.

I’m not a kindergarten teacher, but I teach third grade. I do use reward charts, and if they have a good day they get a sticker and a ticket at the end of the day. The stickers go on their chart and are for the purpose of taking them home to show their parents. The tickets are saved to be traded in. But not for prizes. They are traded in for things such as extra computer time, eating lunch in the classroom with me and a friend, or 5 minutes extra recess (the student who earned the extra recess goes out five minutes early with the second graders). I think it works well, it can be a pain at the beginning of the year to remember stickers and tickets at the end of the day but it works well. Parents like it too because the sticker chart comes home at the end of the month and they can see how their child did.

I did the end-of–the-day reward system because they have trouble remembering by the end of the week and it is better at that age to start each day anew

it is not a waste of time if you get the desired results

the student how needed a sticker every 15 minutes either has special problems or needs to be weaned from the system and the desire to follow directions must be intrinsic…this takes time and patience by stretching from 15 to 20min and so on but it does take a lot of time…but is worth it!

I teach kindergarten and don’t use stickers. Children should be taught to be behave because that is what is expected not because they will get something. I get better results when I don’t “brib” the kids. —That being said, some students (very few-I’ve only had one) may need that kind of incentive.

If we’ve been conversing approximately sixteen and 17 365 days-olds, then i might accept as true with you. by that age, they might desire to have the skill to motivate themselves because of the fact they comprehend it is going to earnings them, no longer in basic terms so as that they might get some sort of reward. yet we are conversing approximately 5 and six 365 days-previous babies. Stickers and different concrete rewards are a reliable concept for the babies.

I never used these. I think it’s too delayed. Five year olds need a more immediate response. I used to put a dot with marker on their papers or hands when they were doing what they needed to. I also used lots of positive words and pointed out students who were on task.

A colleague of mine did sticker charts, her class was a little out of control.