Do you need documentation of your students behavior? Have an iPad, iPhone, Droid, or a laptop? Class Dojo is here for you. This online behavior management tool can help you document each students behavior during the class time. With a touch of your finger award students positive points for good behaviors and negative points for inappropriate behaviors. You can customize the behaviors, input your students names, print out reports for parents or even email it straight to the parents. A great way to show documentation for a student’s behavior grade. A nice feature is that is can be used simultaneously with the iPad, iPhone and on a laptop. I know….I’ve used it in my class.
Only problem that I’ve encountered using it, is when I’m doing direction whole group instruction. It’s hard to just stop and award a point in the middle of your book reading or writing on the board. I feel that it would work better if you are in centers and roaming to help students or maybe have an aid in the class who is watching you teach the lesson. This person can keep track through Class Dojo to award points.
When I’ve used it with students, I do not showcase the negative points. Students are more willing to try when they see positive points being given. I showcase the points by projecting it up on my screen during work time. When I’m roaming around and I award points and students can see who got it and what they did. This elevates the enthusiasms to try get their positive points up there.
Another feature that I like is that I can even use this when not in the classroom. If I have my iPhone with me and the app on it, I can award students when at recess, at lunch, at events or any other class at school. Then at the end of the day, you can see how the student did throughout the whole day. No matter where they were. Then you can show the students their school and see where they need to work on. There is also a circle chart that divides up all the areas of points. The child can see where they get positive behaviors and negative. Then work on them.
Do you already have a great behavior management system? Try changing the behaviors to monitor particular skills. When talking with Linda, she asked if she could use it to keep track of particular reading skills she monitors when working with students. I don’t see why not. You can change the behaviors to skills.
For example, reading pace. Instead of positive and negative behaviors, you can use the two categories as at level and needs to work on. Then the subcategories could be: 4 Appropriate and natural, 3 Uneven, 2 Moderate, 1 Slowly. So when you are working with a student you can just award the appropriate points, then print out for documentation or for the parents to see how the student is doing in reading.
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The video below shows about the features of this behavior management software. It’s free and in the testing phase.
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