Scholar Dollars
Description of the Classroom Management Plan that my elementary class will use this year.
Scholar dollars are imaginary money.
Our class will have a “Scholar Dollar” behavior plan in place. Below is a list of the possible deposits/withdrawals. Each child will be given a transaction register to keep up with their imaginary money, which will be used to purchase items at the end of the month if they have earned and retained enough money. They will be balancing their registers on the last day of each week. (This will give them real life experience in adding and subtracting decimal amounts.) At the celebration they will have to add up their purchases and write a “check” to pay for them. (Another real life experience.)
Deposits
- Monday’s Pay Day —————————-$3.75
- Friday Bonus (All HW for week complete)—— $3.50
- Extra Effort————————————-$0.99
- 100% on a Test———————————$2.00
- Compliment from other adult—————-$1.75
- AM Team Leader———–1 cent per class points
- Withdrawals:
- Poor Behavior Choice————————-$0.75
- Incomplete assignment————————$0.50
- Lack of Responsibility————————-$0.75
- Bad Report from other adult——————$2.00
The last Friday of each month will be our Reward Celebration. Students will have to purchase the rewards by writing a pretend check. They will need at least $40.00 of imaginary money in their transaction register in order to participate.
Possible rewards include:
Movies, Positive phone calls, special snacks, extra recess, no homework passes, gifts, etc.
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Marsha Mauldin
On August 16, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I thought this was kind of neat. What grade do you teach again? I am thinking about going back to school now that I am doing better.I am trying to teach my daughter how to count money. She is not getting money is numbers. She can count by 5’s but she has trouble counting nickels. Making me nuts
lynn high
On August 16, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Thanks Marsha. I have mostly taught 2nd grade in the past. This year I will be teaching 5th grade.
Christine Ramsay
On August 19, 2008 at 7:00 am
Great Idea. I wish I had thought about it when I was teaching. It sounds like a really good motivator.
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