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Subject: Reinforcement schedules that don't kill teachers

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Peter V.

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Date Posted: 13:41:38 01/20/08 Sun

Yesterday's class caused me to consider several practical issues in reinforcing excellent work and good behavior. For me, I have found that I often stay very busy as a teacher and while I have come up with several incentive programs for my class (relating to warmups, homework and punctuality), I get hung up on the amount of work involved in doing my part of the deal on a weekly or daily schedule. Also, I have found that my fixed-interval schedules don't work for motivating some students because two weeks is "too long to wait".

For example, I put into place a punctuality and attendance incentive saying that any two week period in which a student was present and on time each day for the two weeks, he or she would get a homework pass and some extra credit. I started getting behind, however, because of the work involved in checking my roll by hand to see who should get one and also filling out all of the homework passes and putting the extra credit in my grade program.

Also, some students will accidentally be tardy the first day of a two-week fixed-interval for this program, and then they will realize that they have already lost their chance for the homework pass and will not be motivated at all for the rest of the two weeks.

Does anyone have ideas relating to any sort of reinforcement system that is working for them? Does anyone have ideas for how I could improve mine?

Thanks!

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Reinforcement schedules that don't kill teachers	Danielle Murphy	15:06:38 01/20/08 Sun
Re: Reinforcement schedules that don't kill teachers -- Peter V., 16:05:13 01/27/08 Sun