Do you want to unlock the full potential of your classroom? With this tool it's easy. Today I want to share a classroom management tool with you. It's called
Class Dojo and my teachers love it. This in class tool helps you boost classroom engagement and improves behavior quickly and easily. You set up your class in minutes and can customize the positive and negative behaviors in your classroom. The best part is the real-time data, analytic and reporting that is available. You can email or print behavior cards for parents with the click of a button.
I know I sound like a salesman but it's because I have seen my teachers set up their classes and use it with ease. The kids love it too. The other day a teacher shared a story with me about an incident that happened in the classroom. She said she was observing the students working, panning the room and noticed that a student went over to pick up his pencil off the floor a few feet away from his desk. She thought maybe he was misbehaving but wasn't certain. Then the student goes over to the interactive white board and gives himself a negative behavior without being prompted. The teacher walks over to the student and praises him for his action (even though she wasn't exactly sure what he did). He then confesses that he threw his pencil on the floor because he was mad and after he did it he knew she was going to make put it up on Class Dojo so he thought he would just take care of it. She then told him that she hadn't see the pencil throwing but that he deserved a positive behavior for taking care of it before being told. Before Class Dojo that student wouldn't have told on himself but now he is more aware of his behavior and it's effect on himself and his class.
It's funny how powerful a little web tool can be in helping change the climate of a classroom. I hope you find it to be useful as well.
