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Class or School House System.
The annual license fee includes the purchase of over 1,000 hologram token stars in three colours and 70 safety pins.
These design righted star display holders are owned by Mr. Thompson. Their use or modification requires the signing of a license agreement and the payment of a rental.
A 10 to 15cm ribbons in school colours, or four class group or house colours, provided by each pupil to make their star holder. Glue each end around a safety pin, provided or badge or school pin. Let it dry for 5 minutes before pressing together or staple.
Arrange the desks into four groupings, near the walls, with the workstations and open areas in the center.
Draw up the class list in order of age and group the class into four groups according to their ages. Seat them in three or fours, allowing the children to indicate their preferences, but ensure two relatively low attainers are seated with one high attainer from the age grouping. This arrangement obtains the best interaction and understanding when employing co-operative activities.
Assign the colour red, green, yellow and blue to each group or House. Colour code their books, pencil holders, trays and the like.
Make display places available to each child so they can effectively display their work. Staple a coloured A5 sheet of art paper, headed with each child's name, in the colour groups, around the walls, nearest to where the group sits. This enables the children to value each other's achievements and gives the head teacher the opportunity to award his "silver" star to each child once a week for their best work on display.
The Olympian Star Award Star-holders.
Name the star holders by inking or labeling the child's initials or first names on the back of the ribbon. Issue the coloured ribbons to each child in that coloured group or House, if Olympian Star Awards have spread through out the school.
Make display holders with ribbons in four house or groups colours. Stars are threaded onto the display holders safety pin with the other end pinned to the student's lapel for display, tallying and safekeeping. Write the students name and TWTF on the back of the house coloured ribbon.
Show the children the reusable plastic coloured stars kept safe in a container such as a sweet tin. Explain that as well as the usual check marks, praise and approval they get, they can now award or be awarded Olympian Stars as well, to denote and keep a tally of their personal achievements. They are to thread the stars onto the safety pin, dangling on the ribbon from their badge-holders. This is a simple, effective and direct means of giving much more extrinsic positive reinforcement for good effort, behaviour and achievements to each child, as much as five times a day.
Keep the stars safe in a sweet tin in you draw. Put the one's stars (silver) in a saucer on your table for you awarding or students collecting from. Write the students name and TWTF on the back of the house coloured ribbon.
Keep them safe in a sweet tin, in a draw. During the day put the silver or "ones" stars in a saucer, so teacher and students can effortless take them, to thread on their pins.
One gold stars can represent ten silver stars. When a student has another ten silver stars, they come to you to exchange them for one gold star. Put a check mark against their name on their groups chart for awards and treats. When they have had their reward, cover the tick with your signature or sticker. This means you keep recycling the silver stars to you saucer for you, to continue to awarding as many as you can, up to five stars a day per child.
Pin the ribbon to the inside of the pocket, so they can be tucked back in for safety or secrecy.
Ribbon put inside the pocket for privacy outside the classroom, until you are satisfied with the system or return it so it cannot be copied.
A small gold or coloured star can represent "one" (as can the silver star if the head teacher is not using it in a whole school system of "House" awards.) The star should be awarded to follow behaviour either at the student's tables, to maximise the interaction between the teacher and the child or collected by the child from a plate on the teacher's table. This is particularly helpful if the majority of a group or the class as a whole, are being awarded one star each, at a time.
The badge-holders or bookmarks are pinned to the children's lapels and the stars are threaded onto the safety pin for tallying, safekeeping and display. The star awards accumulate on the pin and can easily be tallied in ones, tens and hundreds, by their number and colour.
Instead of wearing the star holder, attach one safety pin so it can be used as a bookmark and taken home with their reading book, so they won't forget to return their book, the next day.
The children wear them around the class and school and can wear them home as part of the home learning scheme so further positive reinforcement by their family members can take place.
For privacy the display holder can be pinned behind the lapel. Instead of a safety pin, a variety of pins or badges can be attached to it such as a school pin for sports. The pins could be from extra curricula activities the children are engage in such as ballroom dancing awards.
The display holder makes it easy for the students to add, tally or remove 10 stars (manipulatables) to exchange. Stars must never be taken back, nor this system used as a punishment. Try to refrain from using punishments for the first five weeks when all unwanted behaviours should have ceased. The bullies tend to become your leaders helping you administer this system and may encourage the other children to work harder to catch up so they all have 100 awards by the end of the 4 to 5 week period.
Class sets of 1,000 plastic hologram star shaped sequin tokens, or manipulatables, in three colours, valued at ones, tens and hundreds, so they can be exchanged and recycled for continuous use, from 2 to 5 Olympian Star Awards, per pupil per day! That's a hundred in 4 weeks, for every pupil, so they can all qualify to go on the class outing, at the end of the four-week period. They won't mess about any more.
The Olympian Star Awards are exchanged for consumables, rewards or treats. For every ten stars awarded, the child returns ten silver stars, to be exchanged for one large gold star (which represents ten small gold or silver stars.) This allows the stars to be re-cycled and re-used again and again. They can be awarded easily, cheaply, effortlessly and as frequently as desired.
Make a "big fuss" over each child, each time they bring their ten stars to be exchanged for a large gold star. Shake their hands profusely, congratulating them either publicly or in private, as you award them the large gold star. Trust them to put back ten small stars, in the tin. A ceremony could be held during class assemblies when the stars can be exchanged in "Houses", or as it arises during the day. Consequences should follow behaviour very closely.
For every "ten" stars awarded, the student can be allowed extra time for a reward. The reward menu could include such items as extra time for creative activities, painting, using the word-processor, games like chess, or the use of school facilities outside class time.
With the class, draw up a menu of treats, rewards and privileges that can be earned with the presentation of one gold star (or ten small stars.) Another type of sequin or spangle can be used as a token for admission to extra curricula activities, given out when the stars are exchanged, and used to show eligibility for the chosen reward. These tokens are collected by the monitor in charge of overseeing the activity and returned to the teacher. Keep adding and deleting from the reward menu so there are always activities and privileges of value and suitable to reward every student in the class.
Also decide on a range of inexpensive class treats that the whole class or House group, would like to be taken on, when they have all been awarded 100 small stars (or ten gold stars). These outings could be educational visits, such as a trip to the zoo, the museum, the library, the theatre, the swimming pool, the city farm, a local amenity, a garden, a park, to an historical or geographical site or field trip.
The number of stars awarded to the children each day will determine how many class treats you will need to organise during the year. By giving up to 5 stars a day each, the children would accumulate 100 stars a month, earning them 9 trips a year, which they probably should have been taken on in any event.
To keep a tally of every ten stars awarded so you know when each child has 100 for that month so they can be included in the outing, list their names in groups, on the groups colour A5 sheet of paper and display in a prominent place. Rule lines and boxes after each name, and record when a "hundred" stars have been awarded by pasting in a picture, your initials, or draw a smiling Olympian star. Decide with the class whether they want their treat taken by the whole class together or taken in their colour or House groups. Decide whether they want to wait until everyone has their next hundred so they can all go together. This will promote peer pressure and peer approval, which is a powerful reinforcer, as they will support each other until they all have a hundred. It should also ensure to remind teachers that they are providing an education that gives equity to every student so no child is every again written off. The need to award 100 stars a month to every student will encourage teachers to provide a suitable range of activities and personal attributes to emphasise and reinforce each week. They can start the week by explaining to the class what personal attributes they will be especially looking out for, and will thus ensure all their students are rewarded with a qualifying number of Olympian stars each week and month.
Take the ten, gold stars back at a more formal ceremony, during a class, school or House assembly. They either start on their next hundred or support the others in their group until they catch up. Students, when they have their hundred could use their extra stars, by awarding them to others in their group for their invitational acts, such as invitations to lunch, for sharing their activities, for playing with them, for invite them out or home.
Have certificates designed by the students on their word processors, printed with the school logo, teacher and head teacher's names for their signatures. Each child can then be awarded a diploma for one of the outstanding achievements that month taken from their "Olympian Star Award Success Book", by the head teacher in assembly, and encouraged to show this to their parents or display it in their bedrooms or this years family scrap book.
http://www.milligans.com/standips.html.
http://www.cleansweepsupply.com/pages/skugroup1411.html.
http://www.aztec-hs.com/register.html (home schooling certificates).
Praise can be delivered when awarding Olympian stars in formal or informal ways, in public or in private; it can be said to individuals or to groups; it can be earned for the steady maintenance of good standards as well as for particular achievements of note. It is a rare school, which spells this out in detail in its "Schools Charter" under guidelines for staff.
Nod, smile, pat on shoulder, head or knee, wink, signal or gesture to signify approval, touch cheek, and fulfill requests, tickle, and give assistance.
Yes, good, fine, very good, very fine, Excellent, marvelous, at-a-boy, good girl,
Right, that's right, correct, wonderful, I like the way you do that,
I'm pleased with you, proud of you, that's good, wow, oh boy, very nice,
Good work, great going, good for you, that's the way, much better,
That's another one you got right, you are doing well,
Look how well you did that, do it again. Thank you, you are terrific, special.
Well done, neat, keen, let's talk about it, cool. I like how you share. You can do it.
Don't give up, you are trying hard, excellent, Good job, thanks, what do you think?
You can. Thanks for being a big help. You brighten my day. Way to go. Super.
Nice. Great job. Thoughtful. I love you.
Nod, smile, laugh (with, not at), kiss, listen, brag about them, hug, or pat on back.
You can say; OK. Beautiful, yea, I agree, Good idea, fine, what a clever idea,
You really are innovative, less inhibited. Fantastic job, you belong, spectacular,
You made my day, that's the best, good for you, beautiful sharing,
Exceptional performance, you're incredible, A big hug, you're important,
You're wonderful, beautiful work, I like you, Super job, I'm proud of you wow.
How smart, fantastic, terrific, and remarkable. Beautiful work, you figured it out,
You learned it right. What an imagination, I knew you could go it, now you are flying.
You mean the world to me. Fantastic job, you're special,
You're sensational. That's incredible, you're a treasure. You care. I like you.
Hip hip hurray. You are a winner, you're a-ok-my buddy.
Nice work, you are on top of it, well done, you are responsible.
You make me happy; you're on your way. Neat, excellent, beautiful. How nice,
You're beautiful, nothing can stop you now.
A+ job, super, what a good listener. Good job, super star, you're a joy,
You're catching on. You figured it out, Super job, creative job. Good.
You brighten my day, now you've got it, outstanding performance, you're creative,
You are a real trouper; I respect you, a big kiss, looking good, phenomenal,
I love you? You've discovered the secret, Outstanding, you're fantastic.
You've got a friend; you mean a lot to me, I trust you. Great. You're a good friend,
I knew you could do it. You're unique, Remarkable job, bravo, you make me laugh.
Hot dog. Awesome. You're spectacular, Hooray for you, you're precious,
You are exciting, you tried hard. That's correct. Bingo.
You're on target. Dynamite. Super work, magnificent,
You're a darling, you're perfect, Marvelous! You are fun!
Where teachers themselves receive praise from colleagues for their successes, and are aware of how potent an effect it has on their own motivation, they are more likely to make good use of it among their pupils. Head teachers could award a star to each staff member at weekly staff meetings or assemblies, praising at least one aspect of the teacher's achievements that week. Book tokens could be given to staff for every ten stars awarded, and the value determined by their effectiveness.
Olympian Stars use a range of other rewards that increase its effectiveness. Olympian stars will encourage schools to be more imaginative and find a variety of achievements worth recognizing, and a variety of ways to do so. These include:
public mention and acclaim, for example at assembly; certificates;
recording of achievements in a profile; Good Behaviour Note Book;
letters to parents;
opportunities for greater responsibility;
specific privileges for example in the use of school facilities;
peer monitoring programme where older children tutor younger ones;
distribute "free gold cards" for admission to all school events;
use of bulletin boards which encourage scholarship;
a "Sent to the Principal" certificate for a students outstanding performance;
a token for the drink machine that offer healthy fruit juices;
pizza party;
a number of laps around the school's "walking path";
to join members of the school family to visit any child that is in hospital;
the use of the school video camera to record class presentations;
form and join the SMART committee (Student Management At Risk Team);
arranging a date with someone they would like to know better;
"Down" time. Take time to relax and get their mind off school matter;
form and meet with community school partnerships;
· use of the opaque (over head) projector to enlarge drawings.
and decorate the classroom and school;
help the cafeteria staff to celebrate cultural diversity;
rotate the seating to give each group a chance to sit near the front;
use of bulletin board to keep people posted - communicate to stamp out rumours;
hold a class contest for the worst pun or most trivial trivia;
place own and select students work in banks, grocery stores, libraries and airports;
organise students to perform for senior citizens;
form a class film company and use videos to make commercial's on academic subject matter;
organise the use of school and House colours to invite school spirit at every opportunity;
provide a computer station for teachers and offer training sessions to those who need it;
an assignment to report on their thoughts to the class;
take students on a field trip to an old cemetery. Ask students to make up stories about each stone;
organising a special welcome to a returning student who has been ill;
buy good (second hand) books at a yard sale, to use as awards;
student to bring a snap shot to class, and display it with some information;
clip articles about spring and mount them on the bulletin boards;
write the weekly column for the local newspaper to highlight good things taking place in schools;
a visit to the local library;
turn to spend the last few minutes of each school day reviewing "What I learnt at school today";
make a poster of historical or exciting events;
turn to raise the school flag;
celebrate own birthday;
encourage students to express their creativity;
Have a spirit day. All students can participate - wear school or House colours, have a giant pep rally;
Help keep one classroom or student common room beautifully decorated all summer to show visitors;
join a group from a list of summer activities;
join a professional; use tokens for free entry;
join an extra curricular activity; use tokens for free entry;
staff the information booth;
to begin collections and hobbies;
choose the classical music played in the school cafeteria during meals;
prepare a map to insure that everyone knows how to get around the school;
to serve as greeters and tour guides during the first days of school;
make welcome signs for the school in various foreign languages;
arrange to trade places with another student for a period;
help with the peer-mentoring program where older children tutor younger ones;
join the school choir or orchestra to perform during lunch-time;
choose a special "diet plate" from the cafeteria;
turn to take student snap-shots during the year and share them with students and parents;
join the student group performing at a nursing home;
use of school telephone for an important call;
volunteer to help some worthy organisation during Christmas time;
form and join a school safety committee, which works to ensure security in the school;
turn to participate in special community projects that promote brotherhood;
work on nature or jogging path on school grounds;
join a Saturday painting party, and use bright, warm colours in the school;
spread a cloth on the floor and have an indoor picnic;
time to work repairing students and schools items and articles in the repair shop;
time in the repair shop that provide the maximum opportunity to "do" something with the items made for self-assembly, self help, re-use and repair.
start and join liberated communes established under the supervision of adults;
help their parents use the schools facilities and modern technology to make free speech, free assembly and a free press truly universal and therefore, fully educational;
time to use the student pay phone or write letters for students who want to send messages to one another;
help staff, run and use the internet - computer centre, readily available to the public and designed to spread equal opportunity for learning and teaching. Technology is available to develop either independence and learning or bureaucracy and teaching. 'What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?'
supervised use of the lab, the maps, the encyclopaedia or the microscope;
supervised use of the schools general physical environment and other physical learning resources which have been reduced to teaching instruments can become generally available for self-directed learning;
use of educational games in the school gaming room;
use of school games equipment, grounds and halls in out of school hours;
view a video; listen to a taped story;
read in the library alcove; read the paper;
group visits to plants and offices reorganised so that their daily operations are more accessible to the public in ways that would make learning possible;
invitations to meet, evaluate and seek out others, for new endeavours (peer-matching) from other classes and schools; The operation of a peer-matching network is simple. The user would identify himself by name and address and would describe the activity for which he sought a peer. The computer would send him back the names and addresses of all those who had inserted the same description;
interview old and retired people in the locality who are delighted to be interviewed by groups of children building up the "autobiography of a place" from the experiences of the inhabitants;
Involve student in decisions; the main point is to make OUR school, where WE have some influence in what happens to US;
The students can tell of some social interaction they would like recognised with the awarding of an Olympian star. When they have five they can get ready to be dismissed.
A star for phoning their peers to invite to play.
A star for accepting an invitation to play.
Saturday mornings; (weekly or monthly), children can exchange a ten star for the treat of attending school to join peers and parents for organised outings or 'skills exchange.'
The achievement, which is rewarded, must be genuine or the "guidance system" is devalued. Yet those schools and teachers who deliberately set out, without any loss of high expectations, to give full and frank praise to individuals and groups when its merited, and use this unique guidance system, will create a climate in which pupils' self-esteem is nurtured and misbehaviour by comparison a markedly less attractive way of obtaining attention.
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