Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Rewards & Consequences Hi All. I am a student in graduate school learning about classroom expectations and procedures. As my fellow classmates and I have been reading and learning about a few of them I wanted to ask you a few questions. What type of system of "rules" or expectations do you have? What do you see works best? Do you use rewards and consequences? If so, what kind? I can think of a ton of rewards to give the students but I am struggling with what types of consequences I can give. I understand that some can be more severe than others but I want to understand what is tooooo severe vs. what is an everyday consequence of not sitting correctly at the rug, or what if you don't bring in your homework? I look forward to reading these responses and getting a better understanding of how you run your classroom! Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) My favorite reward system involves pennies. Each student has their own "piggy bank" where they can earn pennies for good choices, but they can also lose these pennies for making poor choices. At the end of the week, they are able to go shop at the treasure box, a small eraser may be one penny or even 5 pennies depending on how you set it up. You can also have more valuable toys set at higher prices. The more pennies they earn, the more they can buy. If they do not have enough pennies to buy anything they do not get to go to treasure box. This method helps with instant gratification, children being able to visible see that they are being rewards, learning about coins and money, and buying or saving money they earn.