Accentuate the Positives!

1. Accentuate the Positives! Cheryl Bennett Mid-Carolina Middle School cbennett@newberry.k12.sc.us https://teacherpresentation.wikispaces.com

2. Student of the Day • First week create Name Wordle or Tagxedo • www.wordle.net • sample wordle • www.tagxedo.com • Sample tagxedo

3. Student of the Day • Wordle or Tagxedo on bulletin board—change daily • STD bulletin board • Camera • Wireless mouse • Wrist rest • Flexible keyboard • Anything in your room that you only have 1 or 2

4. Student of the Day privileges • 2-3 photos • Use special equipment • Special chair • Special privileges • Leave first • Pass out papers • Free homework pass • Other suggestions

5. Student of the Day Photos • Every 2-3 weeks, open class with slide show of photos. • Save photos in folder to desktop • Open and View as a slide show • Edit and rotate photos as needed before student viewing • Builds class unity and community

6. Awards • Good behavior—weekly • Great techniques—weekly • Hard worker—weekly • Smiley—weekly

7. Interim Awards • Student of the Month—highest average • Photo on bulletin board • certificate

8. End of 9 weeks awards • Student of the Month—highest average • photo on bulletin board • 2nd & 3rd highest averages • Perfect attendance • Best behaved • Most improved • Best helper

9. End of 9 Weeks Awards • Cinnamon & Spice • Politician award • Best reader • Mathematician award • Speedy award • Other ideas?

10. Awards • Students love to receive recognition! Think of all kinds of things to use for awards: • Birthdays • Outstanding work on an assignment • good citizenship • being a teacher helper • helping a fellow student

11. Awards • recognitions for outside achievements--sports, 4H, dance • Grade Changing Award--most improved grade • On time and ready • Stumped the teacher award • best artist • technology support award • A Tip of the Hat--student who is extra polite

12. Fun Activities • Tongue twisters about your subject • Have students create a tongue twister about the last topic you studied • Team/pair competitions

13. Activities • Alphabetic list (your subject topics for ABC list) • Prizes, prizes, prizes • Candy • Pencils, etc • Pizza party • Stickers • Leaving first

14. Activities • Power Point Parade • Students evaluate each others presentations • Checksheet with names • Saves presentation time & all can see • Prizes always motivate! • Students secretly vote for best--prize

15. Celebrations Create an excuse for a celebration: • everyone completed the homework • everyone passed an objective • end of testing • a month of no tardies • everyone passed quiz or test Celebrations can be as small as a piece of candy or 5 minutes of talk time. They can be as big as a pizza party at lunch or recess.

16. Cheers • Students love cheers. • Celebrate completion, participation, or acquisition of skills or knowledge • Truckers cheer • Fist in air, pull down twice saying Whoo, whoo. Then put fist to mouth for CB and say Good job, good buddy. • Roller coaster cheer • Chig, chig, chig to top, then whee down the hills • Fireworks cheer • POW upwards, then cheee, cheee downward

17. More cheers • WOW • 3 fingers W, Open mouth, 3 fingers W • Fantastic • Squirt bottle 3 times, then make circle with flat palm and say Fantastic, Fantastic! • Give yourself a gold star • Kiss index finger and touch to forehead • 2 Adjectives cheer • Choose 2 words/phrases and repeat (Wow! Keep it up)

18. Class building • Scavenger hunts • New friend scavenger hunt • http://712educators.about.com/od/icebreakers/a/scavengerhunt.htm • Getting to know you hunt

19. Icebreakers • Icebreakers • http://712educators.about.com/cs/icebreakers/a/icebreakers.htm • Crossword connection • Find your kind • Take a stand • Birthday lineup • Find 10 things in common • http://humanresources.about.com/od/icebreakers/a/icebreaker_com.htm

20. Reasons to do Classbuilding • Build positive student relations • Enhances classroom environment & lets everyone have fun • Reduce discipline problems • Increase motivation & learning • Promote diversity skills • Develop synergy • Boost self esteem

21. Building class community • www.fmucenterofexcellence.org • Scroll down to presentations on left • Find Building classroom community ideas • Lots of great ideas to use for class building • www.kaganonline.com • Ideas for class & team building • Smart cards $4, books $29

22. Classbuilding • Corners • Find someone who • Inside-outside circle • Line-ups • Similarity groups • Who am I?—secret identity cards

23. Learning chips • Choose a chip • Choose from face up questions (chips) and respond in group • Draw a chip • Choose from face down questions (chips) and respond in group • Purchase or make own set • www.kagononline.com • Also good for review & discussion

24. Tips • Wireless keyboard & mouse • Teach from 2 stations • Wireless mouse to advance PP slides • $1 earphones from Dollar Store • White boards and markers • $1 from Dollar Store

25. Tips • Technique check sheet—importnames from Power Teacher • Names in gradebook—in Power teacher, use demographics report—lines are same width as gradebook. • Clickers • Quizzes • Opinion polls

26. Websites • www.DropItTo.Me • Must have a Dropbox account (free) • Opt not to have email notifications • www.TweenTribune.com • www.Wordle.net • www.Tagzedo.com • www.teacherpresentation.wikispaces.com • Tom’s Autograph Page • http://www.digiulio.com/sports-team-addresses.html

27. Sharing Time • What strategies do you use to accentuate the positives in your classroom? • How do you get all students to use only one piece of technology or tool? • Other ideas