Reward Stickers - Teachers in classrooms around the world know how important it is to keep children’s self-esteem high. They do this by rewarding students who show initiative, do well on tests, and sometimes, simply demonstrate kindness. There are many different ways of rewarding these students. In higher grades, it can be more difficult, but often, teachers notice that younger students enjoy simple things.
Teachers in
classrooms around the world know how important it is to keep children’s
self-esteem high.
They do this by
rewarding students who show initiative, do well on tests, and sometimes, simply
demonstrate kindness.
There are many different
ways of rewarding these students.
In
higher grades, it can be more difficult, but often, teachers notice that
younger students enjoy simple things.
One method of rewards that has stood the test of time is that of reward
stickers.
Teachers can
find stickers at just about any store, or they can order them online in
bulk.
Once they have the stickers, there
are a number of different ways they can make use of them as a motivation and
reward system for students.
One very
public way of awarding stickers is to buy an incentive and reward chart.
This chart hangs on the wall of the classroom
and lists all of the students in the first column.
Then there are a number of columns to the
right where teachers can place the Reward Stickers.At the top, teachers can often write what the sticker was awarded
for.
One column might be “received a
perfect score on a test.”
If teachers
don’t want to use the public reward method (and it can backfire, especially if
one or two students have few stickers while the rest have a dozen or more),
they can always affix reward stickers to each student’s papers before returning
them.
This way, students are more
privately rewarded, but they still get that same excited feeling when they see
that gold star or glittering smiley face sticker.
Teachers are also given more latitude with
stickers here—they could put a reward sticker on a paper that wasn’t quite
perfect.
This lets teachers give
students who need it a bit of encouragement.
Of course,
teachers can go in the opposite direction as well.
If a student truly does something
outstanding, the teacher may wish to call him or her to the front of the class
and present the student with a large sticker that he or she can wear on his/her
shirt.
This is a way of letting everyone
know what a great job that student did.
This method of using reward stickers should be kept to a minimum,
however, or the reward may start to seem not as important.
What counts
as a “reward” sticker?
It doesn’t always
have to be gold stars or smiling faces.
In fact, with today’s trends, those old-fashioned reward stickers may be
a little outdated.
Instead, teachers can
find stickers with just about anything on them: animals, cartoon characters,
race cars, and more.
They may want to
look for stickers that go with certain lessons.
For example, if students are asked to name the planets in the solar
system, teachers could use outer space stickers as rewards.
Then they could give out Christmas themed
stickers around the holidays.
Teachers
might even want to pick up some stickers featuring characters from popular
cartoons and movies, especially ones that they know many of their students
enjoy.
Nicola Welsby has many
years of experience in the educational sector and promotes reward stickersas a means of encouraging pupils.
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