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  Case: Kindergarten Classrooms
I teach kindergarten and each teacher on our team have students who misbehave frequently and have constant behavioral issues. The administration is reward those students when they do well in attempt to improve their behavior. However the other students are seeing these students being rewarded and now they are wondering why they don't get those same rewards. It is a difficult situation. How can we improve the behavior of some of these students without making a difference?
Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!)
The students should only be rewarded when they show positive behavior. If you use a clip up/clip down system to keep track of behavior then the students can only clip up when they show positive behavior. On the other hand, if a student misbehaves then he or she clips down on the chart. The clip system does not reward students for good behavior unless they have shown it. Therefore no student receives a reward (clipping up) unless they have done something good to receive it.