ClassDojo
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Anonymous
| Does anyone have any experience with this? They are starting to use it in some grades at our school and I'm wondering how the students/kids respond to it. On one hand, I don't think it sounds that much different that other behavior monitors that I've seen. On the other hand, it seems like the type of thing that can make a kid pretty stressed out, especially if the points are made public. |
Anonymous
| There is another recent thread on this. We had a bad experience. My child is SN with, among other things, ADHD. Class Dojo program addresses classroom behaviors, which are a significant issue for my son. So he wasn't successful at earning points and it ended up being a bad experience. |
Anonymous
| I'm a teacher. First year using class dojo and so far so good! I only track positive behavior and if students earn at least a certain number of points, they get a prize or treat at the end of the week. |
Anonymous
| It was great for my son. He had several areas he needed to work on in 1st grade and this allowed the teacher to give me a day by day account of how well he was doing. It really helped me to stay on top of the issues, and it helped him become more aware of the type of behavior that the teacher was getting frustrated with. He really responded to it -much better than in-class - especially since this was private communication between me and the teacher - I didn't see the entire class nor did he. |
Anonymous
Was it in this forum? I checked using the search tool and only found this thread. |
Anonymous
| Ugh. DD's class used it last year and it was worthless. I didn't miss it when the teacher stopped emailing reports, that were all the same anyway. Thankfully they have moved on to intrinsic motivators his year. |
Anonymous
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I hate it and I think it does more harm than good. Without any context, how can there be any learning? I normally avoid showing it to my kids or talking to them about it. The once or twice they've insisted, they were truly bewildered by the negatives. They had NO recollection of having failed to follow teacher directions, or whatever. You know why? Because the teacher was looking at her stupid tablet to log their bad behavior, rather than providing feedback and correcting the behavior. You know... teaching.
I would rather the teachers add up all those "two seconds" that it takes to log 8-10 positives and negatives each day, and write one line at the end of the day, "Amaranth was distracted during math and needed two reminders to stay on task." |