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Point systems are a great way to give students feedback on their behavior as well as to help them achieve goals.
If you need to complete an individual behavior chart for a child then this is a nice site with a free collection for primary elementary school teachers. There are a variety of choices and styles.
Great for kids with attention difficulties!
Take a look:
http://www.freebehaviorcharts.com/charts/
Here are the steps:
1. Pinpoint a behavior: Select one or 2 behaviors with a long term goal of behavior change. This goal should be agreed upon by the student and families should be involved as well. By creating a team of home and school approach you increase the chances of your programs success.
2. Select your token or point system: A great resource for creating point systems is right here http://www.jimwrightonline.com/php/tbrc/tbrc.phpThis site gives you well written goals with perfectly set up point sheets.
3. Select Reinforcer : I like to use reinforcers that are already in the classroom. This is a real nice reinforcer survey that I created from jimwrightonline.com I like it because it use reinforcers or priviledges that you already have in your classroom for free. Click here: Reinforcer Survey
4. Set the cost to gain the reinforcer : Obtainable first and build ……at the end of the week receives reward generally has not been successful in progams that I have observed. End of the day or at the end of the work period …more immediate
5. Implement the program: Run it and review it…but don’t give up if you don’t get immediate results…..some behaviors have been in place for a significant amount of time and will need time to change Finally read this pdf. On Token Economy it will give you easy to follow guidelines.
General suggestion I have is to have someone else look over your program and search for loop holes or areas where it may not be successful. Now that it has been in place and some success has been shown we now want to:
Fade physical tokens to points
Pair points with praise
Fade the system to certain times
Move to more natural reinforcers
Simple check list to evaluate your school’s point system:
