All About Incentives

Description

All of us will work harder and focus more with some incentive. This room contains TEN themed incentive activities. Each activity has a main object and items to move to the object as the student finishes tasks or displays behavior you want to see. Each incentive activity has a matching reward activity that can be found in the Koala Marketplace. You’ll see pictures of those activities next to the incentive activity. Farm, Coral Reef, Shopping, Snowman, Stars, Galaxy, Robot, Alien, Princess/Prince Fairytale, Christmas Tree. I’ve also made separate themed reward activity rooms you can find in the Koala Marketplace. The main board gives detailed instructions on how best to set up and use incentives including deciding on what to incentivise, communicating it to the student, and types and timing of rewards. To use the incentive activities: Decide what will be rewarded by asking yourself what behavior you want to continue or you want more of. Such as: Items or activities completed/attempted Following directions Staying on task Positive language Checking answers Decide how many items you want to give before a reward. At first, you'll want to give more frequent items. Duplicate the number of items you want. Copy and paste your chosen incentive theme items into your classroom. You may put items all together or around the room next to tasks or activities. Tell the student very clearly what actions the student is earning items for. It should focus on effort and actions, not necessarily correct answers. Feel free to give bonus items for correctness, doing extra work or having excellent behavior. When all items are earned, give the reward IMMEDIATELY, (that means even if it's in the middle of a session.) There needs to be a strong connection between the actions and the reward. No one says rewards only come at the end. Of course, you can pace it that way. What should the reward be? The best rewards are short, simple and preferably free. A game of tag, a positive note to a parent or a game are great! Just in case you need a reward, I have completed THEME REWARD ACTIVITY ROOMS (listed by each incentive theme). You can find them in the marketplace.