More Simple Behavior Charts

Here are a few more charts made from different items or with different focuses. I did not personally create any of these particular charts but I did make some of them as recommendations and like I mentioned before I work with the most on the ball and creative teachers. Boy does that make my job easier!

This gem was created using milk carton caps!  Perfect huh?  Great thinking Kimber! A great way to reuse something you have plenty of.

You may notice the reward is not posted either in written or picture format, this is because this particular chart is paired with the reinforcer box see in this post. 

As you can easily tell from this chart it is similar to some I created and used while teaching-which you can see here or here.  But you might notice that the child this was created for has a little trouble listening and needs extra reinforcement and reminders when she does.  Its a nice specific chart. You may also notice she is working to be the teachers helper!  Nice!  No I don't recommend making one of these for your husband....I know some of you were thinking that.  Nice Work Kimber!

On the back there are a few other options for reinforcement.  Its all packaged together for easy use!

Chart By Wendy! This chart is made using little colored plastic ships and a piece of cardboard-it could also be done with a binder or other item.  The reinforcer icon is nicely placed on the board.  This student had 3 chips to earn before receiving the reinforcer.  He has since moved up to 5.  Woo Woo! 

For reminders on how to use a simple behavior chart click here!

More Behavior Charts in the future!  Share Your if you'd like!

More simple behavior charts!

As promised here are a few of my other simple behavior charts.  I love these ones.  They are great for the purse!  All you need is the chart and a dry erase marker and you are good to go!

 This was a very simple chart I had lying around and would use if I found a student becoming restless during work time.  They were very motivated to work when there was a reminder of what they were working for. 5 stars or smileys or sometimes crazy faces (whatever they wanted)= a short play break. It worked for me and it worked for them!

 Occasionally when I was feeling like a really nice teacher I would surprise my students by handing them one of these computer points cards.  Everyone got one and when they were working hard or did something nice throughout the day they would get a star.  As soon as their card was filled they could head over to the computer to play an educational game.  It was very effective.  They all loved the computer and it was a nice way to reward them for the simple things. 

 There are a few things that I love about this chart.  First its simple, just the dry erase marker and the chart (like the others), second there are reinforcer choices at the top so the child could choose something different every time, next there is a visual reminder of the expected behavior (in this case keeping your hands to yourself).  Clearly this was used with a student who needed a little extra reminder and motivation to keep their hands to themselves.  The best bonus about this chart was it kept those little hands busy, as the student would carry it around with them, thus making it a little more difficult to give someone a little push or poke.

This chart is a simpler version of the one above.  It still contains the reminder of the expected behavior but in this case has one choice of what the student is working hard for.  The other choices weren't really needed for this student as he/she would do anything to have a "teacher job" ie. passing out papers, stacking chairs, erasing the board, etc. 

These charts help you avoid having all of the individual icons lying around or in your pocket.....or worse no where to be found. 

Wall Work Series 2

This is one of my favorite wall work posters.  I had so much fun making it and my students (and staff) had so much fun using it.  I love all the different shaped people and animals.

My husband always teases me about having a picture of a robber under people.  I always tell him, "Hey thieves are people to ya know!"

This is a hard concept for some students to grasp.  Generalizing is very difficult for individuals with Autism especially.  Sometimes they don't see how a giraffe and a caterpillar could ever be in the same category.  Sorting and Categorizing are great skills for any individual to master.

 

What does your child or student need help categorizing?

Just seeing this again makes me think I might want to create one for myself called Healthy and Un-healthy foods...maybe I'm not the only one? 

The Wall Work Series

Before you all think I am one of these:

I just thought I would add a general blog disclaimer.  There is a rule (don't worry I checked) that you can bring items you create for your classroom with you wherever you go.  They do this because they know that every teacher has their own style and will most likely want to do his or her own thing.  So they figure since you will use it you should bring it.  And so I did.  The only exception is if you create something for a specific child.  In this case you have to leave it or create a second one to bring with you.  I did that as well, as you saw in the last post.  Good, Glad we cleared that up!

So I thought I would post a little series spotlighting something I created during my first year of teaching.  I had a lot of fun making these items and my students loved using them.  They also were able to work on some great skills and learn some independence and generalization. It was called wall work.  I had 6-7 posters hanging on the walls, each one had a different activity to complete.  Every week (for a couple months) we would have  an official wall work time.  During this time the students would be able to choose 1 poster from the wall and work on it.  My staff and I would help, occasionally I would use this time to pull the students 1:1 to work on assessments or lessons,  but I really enjoyed watching my students enjoy them and become more independent over time. Boardmaker was again used to create these projects.

For Teachers: Heres how I displayed and worked the whole system.  I made sure to create items that were goals for my students but that they could eventually learned to complete with minimal assistance, maybe 2/3 students per adult. 

So I had these poster hanging with velcro on the walls.  Underneath each one was a little tab of laminated squares with colors that corresponded to the color of the poster.

Each student had one of these little strips and as soon as they finished a poster they would grab the corresponding sqaure and put it on their strip as they put the poster back on the wall.

I will post all of my individual posters on subsequent posts, starting today but feel free to use what works best for you and your children or students.

This is a beginning sounds poster.  I have a bunch of pictures that start with E-H and have the corresponding words on the pictures.  The students start with all the pictures at the bottom and then sort them by beginning sound/letter.

The nice thing about having both the picture and the word was that if a student wasn't quite ready to figure out on their own what the sound was they could match the letter itself which took some detective skills and problem solving.  If the student did know how to do it without looking at the word they would usually work with an adult who would cover up the word and then they would check them all after they were placed where they went! 

We had tons of fun!

For Moms:  I plan on creating smaller versions of these to put in an activity book for my little guy when he gets older.  They would be fun for car trips or quiet books-although velcro isn't always so quiet.  These and more to follow are great skills that all little ones need eventually!

I consider most of these skills Level 2 skills meaning there is information that has to be mastered before these can be completed independently but you can create these for anything, simple color sorting, shapes, letters etc.!!

There are 6 more parts of my wall work series to come!

So stick around!

Enjoy!

As always I love to hear if you have done something similar or made this after seeing this post!