Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Let's Clean It Up In my classroom, I have several students that refuse to help clean up after centers. Instead of cleaning up, they go behind the other students and take the toys back out. I have a clean-up song that I play, but it does not help. Any suggestions as to how I can encourage these students to clean-up? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) When I worked with first graders, the students were assigned specific jobs for clean-up. Two students would be in change of library clean-up, another two would clean-up underneath the desks, two students would be in charge of the computer area, two were designated to clean up other parts of the room, etc. These jobs would change every month therefore it was fair. If a student did not do their job, they lost privileges such as turning their green card to yellow. If they continued to refuse to clean, their card would flip to red which meant a phone call home. This typically got all the students to participate in the clean-up process.