Get Creative With How You Reward Your Students

September 14, 2011  9 Comments

reward Get Creative With How You Reward Your Students

One of the areas of student motivation that attracts the most discussion amongst teachers is how to reward students.

I have previously witten a few posts on how to manage student rewards in such a way that the student doesn’t become more interested in the reward than in their learning.

You can read about the three strategies to rewarding students here.  The following post also looked at whether or not rewards dull creativity because they narrow the focus.

As a teacher I’m always interested in what other teachers are doing to engage and motivate their students and was wondering the best way to share these ideas with other teachers.

The best method I can think of is by having teachers share their ideas in the comment sections below.  That way every time the comment is updated anyone who has shared an idea will be updated automatically.

I’ll add a few ideas below to get the ball rolling and would love it if you would share your ideas as well.

Mike

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  • http://www.leadwell.com.au/blog Mike Reading

    Some great ideas for rewarding students that I have heard this week was:

    Take a photo of some students work. The photos were compiled into a booklet and mailed back to the parents. This was done without the students knowing so it was a nice surprise for the students.

    One school bought a domain name for each of their students as a graduation present. All their work (they were using Google docs) was uploaded onto the domain.

    One school creates a video over the course of the year and gives the DVD to each student as a graduation present. During the year the students are interviewed and they can see how they have matured and changed over the year. The school focuses their interviews on the student’s attitude, effort and engagement as well as how they are interacting with their peers and solving problems. I viewed the video and was so touched even though I had never met any of the students.

    Obviously all these ideas require a bit of planning and some extra work but all of them are truly appreciated by the students.

    • Casey

      I’m actually really inspired by the video idea. I have just taken over a tutor (roll call) group and am going to try this idea this year

      • http://twitter.com/MikeReading Mike Reading

        Would love to hear how it goes.  If your school allows
        it you could post it to YouTube and the parents can then share the link with
        their friends and relatives.

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