Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Classroom Rewards - Candy or Not? I usually give candy (Dum Dums) for small rewards in my classroom. With so much emphasis on healthy eating lately, what other small rewards could I give my students for following classroom routines? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I have seen one really cool reward system in place at a school I work at. The students have a tally system that they work on as an entire class. At the beginning of each day, the teacher draws a T chart on the board. One side has a smiley face, the other side has a sad face. The class earns tally marks for positive behavior. For any negative behavior, one tally mark is erased and moved to the sad face side. At the end of the day, the teacher counts the amount of happy tally marks and puts that many marbles inside of a jar. The jar holds a total of 50 marbles and the students objective is to fill the jar by the end of the week. The teacher who implements this is the STEM teacher at our school, so she actually has robots that are controlled by iPads. If the students fill the jar by the end of the week, the last hour of the day on Fridays is spent outside playing with these robots. Not all students in the school participate in the after-school STEM program, so this is rewarding for all of them. Also, it teaches them to hold one another accountable.