Clip Chart
Here's an idea I got from my son's third grade teacher, a truly gifted man by the name of Jonathan McDade. It's a wonderfully simple strategy that I was able to use in my own classroom with great success.
And now that I'm no longer in the classroom--I resigned from my school district June 30, 2008 after thirty-one years of teaching and three years of a leave of absence--I've been sharing this same strategy as a part of the discipline seminar I present at schools and districts.
Lately, though, I've received a number of email requests about the idea from teachers who had heard about it from another teacher and were looking for a bit more information about how it all works. Thus, this eBook.
The book will show you how to get started, how to use the included blackline masters, and how to add new features to make the whole thing really click with your students.
Teacher Suggestion
I love your Clip Chart! It takes care of the uneasy feeling I get when using the standard red, yellow, green chart.
Here's my idea based upon your idea (Reward Indicators, page 25 of the Clip Chart eBook) about allowing students to add some kind of recognition awards to their clothespins whenever they've reached the top of the chart:
Draw a stripe on the front end of the clip (a short line across the width of the clip, not the length). Once they have 5 or 10 stripes ( I don't know how many would fit) the clip could then be retired for a new color of clip.
They do something similar in my son's taekwondo class by giving them stripes (skinny stickers) to wrap around their belts each time they bring a "good" behavior report from home.
Thanks for sharing your ideas!
Elementary Teacher
Colorado
Clip Chart eBook
36 pages - 2.39MB
