Success Jar
Success Jar
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Using a success jar...
Builds sense of community
Created targeted conversation topics
Provides insight to student thinking
Implementation
Implementation
Overview
The teacher prompts students to convene together in a circle surrounding the "success jar"
One at a time, students share any academic accomplishments they've experienced that week, which they've also written down on a notecard.
After sharing , each student places his or her notecard in the jar.
Core Components
Asset Based
Consistent
Recognizes all accomplishments no matter the size
Proactive Implementation
Proactively implementing the success jar requires a platform for sharing to occur. Whether this be in a circle format or other, there must be a designated time for students to share these successes with each other.
Responsive Implementation
Responsively implementing the success jar may start with a discrete written success put into the jar and not shared with the class if there hasn't be an established format implemented yet. Students then can build comfort to introduce sharing as time goes on.
Bucket fits
Bucket fits
Connection
If the need is connection then students should combine the success jar with bragging and may write the successes of others on their cards.
Skills Training
If the need is skill building then there may be parameters on what success is shared including a specific skill related piece.
Awareness
If the need is awareness then the supervising adult may give each student another name at the beginning of the week and have them notice the successes of this peer to then share during the success jar time at the end of the week.
Emotional Regulation
If the need is regulation then this may be done during a typically challenging time for a student, group, or class to allow for mindset shifting.
Consider Factors Prior to Start
Student factors-
Gender, race, function, topography, family dynamics, interpersonal relationships
Contextual factors -
Resource availability, classroom instruction, physical space, time, technology
Intensifying or Fading During
Duration
Frequency
Feedback
Reinforcement
Goals
REMINDER
Make a note to document when you're starting this intervention.
After 10 consecutive school days of implementation, use collected data to determine the intervention's effectiveness.
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