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Point systems are intended to give students immediate feedback on their behavior as they work to achieve their goals.
Here are the steps thai use to create a program:
1. Pinpoint a specific behavior: Select one or 2 behaviors with a long term goal of behavior change. This goal should be agreed upon by the student and agreed upon by the child’s family as well.
2. Select your point system:
http://www.jimwrightonline.com/php/tbrc/tbrc.phpThis site gives you well written goals with perfectly set up point sheets.
http://archived.freebehaviorcharts.com/charts/
http://www.freeprintablebehaviorcharts.com/
3. Select reinforcer : Talk with th child and work together to find reinforcers that will be motivating to the child. When possible, I like to use reinforcers that are already in the classroom that are available at little to no cost. Click here: Reinforcer Surveyreinforcer-document1 for reinforcer survey that I created from jimwrightonline.com for examples.
4. Set the cost to gain the reinforcer : Make the goal achievable at first and build
5. Implement the program: Run it and review it..
Simple check list to evaluate your school’s point system: point-system-eval-tool
.but don’t give up if you don’t get immediate results…..
Finally read this pdf. On Token Economy it will give you easy to follow guidelines.
Ways to generalize your point program:
Fade physical tokens to points
Pair points with praise
Fade the system to certain times
Move to more natural reinforcers
