Structured Incentives

Most of us work well if we are working towards something. In a classroom it is important to have some structure and approval about what the rewards will be. Instead of just giving a student an iPad to have free time it's better to structure the choices and provide some guidance about what you expect the student to be doing.

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Examples: Epic, Garage Band, Hour of Code, Sora, Stop Motion, Book Creator

Choice boards are a great way to let students have choice from pre-approved options. Make sure that students know how to use all of the choices on the board.

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Word Work Choice Board.docx

Journal Choice Board .pdf

Word Work Choice Board

Journal Choice Board

Math Choice Board - A Peek at My Genius.pdf

Math Choice Board

Instead of setting your students loose for free time on YouTube why not curate some pre-approved, high interest videos in Book Creator(or D2L or Google Slides or Sites) for them to watch. You could even have different "books" that last different amounts of time so that if a student has earned 5 minutes of free time they can pull up a 5 minute book of videos.

Great Apps for "Free Time"

Minecraft EDU

Block Craft

Bloxels EDU

Scratch

Code.org

Lightbot

iMotion

JigSpace

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