Does your elementary school use the "stoplight"/shame system

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone summarize Responsive Classroom?

Our school uses clips and while it's not really a problem for my DD, I'm still not a huge fan.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/teaching-lessons/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone summarize Responsive Classroom?

Our school uses clips and while it's not really a problem for my DD, I'm still not a huge fan.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/teaching-lessons/

We live it too. Unless it is coupled with Responsive Recess and carried through to afterschool programs, the work of the classroom is often undone in the other hours. It is the same children in the same physical space but governed by different expectations (or lack thereof).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone summarize Responsive Classroom?

Our school uses clips and while it's not really a problem for my DD, I'm still not a huge fan.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/teaching-lessons/

We live it too. Unless it is coupled with Responsive Recess and carried through to afterschool programs, the work of the classroom is often undone in the other hours. It is the same children in the same physical space but governed by different expectations (or lack thereof).

Are you saying, in your experience, that it works?

[Anonymous]

Different poster. I am not a huge fan of the stoplight system, but it is the first time I actually get information home on an immediate basis about behavior. In the past I'm used to getting information on behavior 6 months after the fact if at all. So while I think other methods should also be used, I think the stoplight system is a good way to curb small behaviors that the teacher and parents can easily work to be corrected.

[Anonymous]

17:59. I wanted to add that our teacher sent a note home whenever my child got moved down to the red mark and there was also a positive behavior system where a child could do something nice or responsible and get moved up the ladder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone summarize Responsive Classroom?

Our school uses clips and while it's not really a problem for my DD, I'm still not a huge fan.

Positive reinforcement is the way to go. Behavior should be planned for and not reacted to. https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/about-responsive-classroom

[Anonymous]

So what do you do if someone misbehaves and doesn't follow the RC script? Why should kids not be told when their behavior is not acceptable? If your kid has been warned about a behavior multiple times, why should your kid not receive a consequence?

[Anonymous]

The teacher has never shared with us when my child was on red. It has come out when I press him, but the teacher has never used it as a collaborative tool for curbing behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what do you do if someone misbehaves and doesn't follow the RC script? Why should kids not be told when their behavior is not acceptable? If your kid has been warned about a behavior multiple times, why should your kid not receive a consequence?

I teach K-2 students and I use a card system. Each student had a card on the edge of their desk. When they do something they should do (following directions the first time, following classroom rules and procedures, completely homework on time, etc), they earn a stamp. When they acquire 10 stamps, they can pick something from the reward box. Students earn more stamps at the beginning of the year and after breaks when they are learning/reviewing rules and procedures. I always tell a student why they are getting a stamp. Rewards include pencils, erasers, stickers, "money" for our school store, small prizes like bubbles, glow sticks, small PlayDoh, etc). I don't often cross stamps out but if a student repeatedly breaks the rules after reminders, I will cross one out. I think this works better than the stop light. I had an admin many years ago who had no problem berating teachers in front of other teachers during meetings, PDs, etc. Our admin now is the complete opposite. We all want to do well b/c she knows how to get people to do their best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what do you do if someone misbehaves and doesn't follow the RC script? Why should kids not be told when their behavior is not acceptable? If your kid has been warned about a behavior multiple times, why should your kid not receive a consequence?

I teach K-2 students and I use a card system. Each student had a card on the edge of their desk. When they do something they should do (following directions the first time, following classroom rules and procedures, completely homework on time, etc), they earn a stamp. When they acquire 10 stamps, they can pick something from the reward box. Students earn more stamps at the beginning of the year and after breaks when they are learning/reviewing rules and procedures. I always tell a student why they are getting a stamp. Rewards include pencils, erasers, stickers, "money" for our school store, small prizes like bubbles, glow sticks, small PlayDoh, etc). I don't often cross stamps out but if a student repeatedly breaks the rules after reminders, I will cross one out. I think this works better than the stop light. I had an admin many years ago who had no problem berating teachers in front of other teachers during meetings, PDs, etc. Our admin now is the complete opposite. We all want to do well b/c she knows how to get people to do their best.

I don't know why but I'm not a huge fan of the reward box either. Maybe because the rewards seem so ill thought out and are unrelated to the deed.

[Anonymous]

I don't like the stoplight system in theory, and I think it is unfair to kids who have limited ability to control their behavior due to factors outside their control. That being said, it actually works well for DS. At the beginning of the year, he got "yellows" fairly regularly. He didn't like it, so he made a change and now always gets good colors. But just because it works for some kids doesn't mean it is a good system for most or all.

[Anonymous]

Heard of Punished by Rewards?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what do you do if someone misbehaves and doesn't follow the RC script? Why should kids not be told when their behavior is not acceptable? If your kid has been warned about a behavior multiple times, why should your kid not receive a consequence?

I teach K-2 students and I use a card system. Each student had a card on the edge of their desk. When they do something they should do (following directions the first time, following classroom rules and procedures, completely homework on time, etc), they earn a stamp. When they acquire 10 stamps, they can pick something from the reward box. Students earn more stamps at the beginning of the year and after breaks when they are learning/reviewing rules and procedures. I always tell a student why they are getting a stamp. Rewards include pencils, erasers, stickers, "money" for our school store, small prizes like bubbles, glow sticks, small PlayDoh, etc). I don't often cross stamps out but if a student repeatedly breaks the rules after reminders, I will cross one out. I think this works better than the stop light. I had an admin many years ago who had no problem berating teachers in front of other teachers during meetings, PDs, etc. Our admin now is the complete opposite. We all want to do well b/c she knows how to get people to do their best.

I don't know why but I'm not a huge fan of the reward box either. Maybe because the rewards seem so ill thought out and are unrelated to the deed.

What would you suggest?

[Anonymous]

Our school uses it. Sometimes my son remembers everyone's color and sometimes he only remembers a few. It is a fine system. Early in the year he said he wanted a chart for home and kept reminding me to make one.

Those of you who don't like it, have you every spent a morning or afternoon in the classroom? Those kids are full of energy, and sometimes it seems only the looming consequence of a color change makes them calm down. The kids get plenty of warning before they go on yellow. It is not a one strike kind of system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what do you do if someone misbehaves and doesn't follow the RC script? Why should kids not be told when their behavior is not acceptable? If your kid has been warned about a behavior multiple times, why should your kid not receive a consequence?

I teach K-2 students and I use a card system. Each student had a card on the edge of their desk. When they do something they should do (following directions the first time, following classroom rules and procedures, completely homework on time, etc), they earn a stamp. When they acquire 10 stamps, they can pick something from the reward box. Students earn more stamps at the beginning of the year and after breaks when they are learning/reviewing rules and procedures. I always tell a student why they are getting a stamp. Rewards include pencils, erasers, stickers, "money" for our school store, small prizes like bubbles, glow sticks, small PlayDoh, etc). I don't often cross stamps out but if a student repeatedly breaks the rules after reminders, I will cross one out. I think this works better than the stop light. I had an admin many years ago who had no problem berating teachers in front of other teachers during meetings, PDs, etc. Our admin now is the complete opposite. We all want to do well b/c she knows how to get people to do their best.

I don't know why but I'm not a huge fan of the reward box either. Maybe because the rewards seem so ill thought out and are unrelated to the deed.

What would you suggest?

www.responsiveclassroom.org
It really works.

--FCPS principal