Elementary, Secondary At Risk Student Classroom Management Behavior Strategies

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The More You Learn, The More You Earn: To teach children about the importance of finishing school, bring in play money. Make 3 piles of money. In one pile, put $19,000; in the second pile, put $27,000; in the third pile, put $50,000. Ask the children to pick which pile of money would they most like to earn when they are grown-ups. Most kids will pick the $50,000 pile. Inform the children that $19,000 is what drop-outs earn; $27,000 is what high school graduates earn; $50,000 is what college grads earn.
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After students have learned the value of school, teach them: "the more you learn, the more you earn." Or, you can teach them this formula: "Each degree doubles the dollars." That formula refers to the fact that a college grad tends to earn twice the salary of a high school grad, but

the person with a grad degree can earn double the salary of a person with a single college degree, and so on. Find devices like this in our Last Chance School Success book (click here to view), shown here. We have hundreds more creative devices in our other books. Don't miss our surprisingly unusual posters (click here) that hammer home these critical concepts.

Change Cage: This device assists young children to visualize how to improve a problem area. Take a cardboard box and cover with tin foil to make it look high-tech. Make a window that goes up and down in the box. This is a change cage. Have the children make before and after pictures similar to those used to show weight loss int weight loss center ads. These pictures should show the progression of change on a problem area the child is working on, such as attendance or learning handwriting. Insert the pictures into the change cage, raising and lowering the window prior to each change in picture, to show kids how change can and does occur.

Harvey Hygiene:Make a bingo game, with a picture of Harvey Hygiene serving as the bingo card. Harvey is a boy in his bathroom in front of the bathroom mirror. Instead of bingo tiles, use pictures of hygiene items, such as a hair brush and deodorant. These items can be clip art, drawn or cut from magazines. Each student gets a unique assortment of hygiene items as their bingo pieces. Instead of saying "B-64" as in regular bingo, you say "This is what Harvey brushes his teeth with every morning." Each child who has a picture of a tooth brush, places that item on Harvey. The first child to use up all their bingo items, wins. Winners can be given hygiene items such as cologne. This bingo game is so popular, your kids will ask to play it. It will help keep their awareness of hygiene high, and you can thread in information on hygiene as you play the game, so you are actually teaching them, while they think they are playing. You can eliminate some chronic problems via Harvey.

Space Bubble: To teach young children about personal space and distance, get a hula hoop for each child. The hula hoop is the child's space bubble. Have the children go through their daily routine with the hoola hoop so that they learn how to keep their space bubble from bumping anybody else's space bubble while in the cafeteria, on the school bus, in the classroom, etc.

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