Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Directing Student Focus Ms. Smith teaches a first grade class. One of her students is an ELL student who is very smart but also extremely quiet. He is easily distracted and sometimes he will even get up during a whole group activity or discussion and just walk away to start doing something else. He is such a sweet boy and a very deep thinker. Ms. Smith is just having trouble communicating with him and keeping him focused. I think Target is a great option for him but his score did not make him eligible. What should she do? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) If he is performing well on tests, consider an incentive instead of punishment. Pass out little tokens kids can earn by staying seated and focused. The tokens will earn prizes. This encourages appropriate behavior without disrupting the class.