Good Behavior Game What is the Good Behavior

Good Behavior Game What is the Good Behavior Game? Who Benefits from the Good Behavior Game? • A positive approach to classroom behavior management that rewards children for displaying appropriate on-task behaviors during instructional times. • Students diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, ODD, Students at-risk for placement in special services. • General Ed Students • First tested in 1969. • Effectively increases the rate of on-task behaviors while reducing classroom disruptions. Benefits of Using the Good Behavior Game: • • Increases social skills within group members. Peers work together to improve behavior. Teachers have more time to devote to teaching rather than on behavior. Group-based, so eliminates the risk of one student being singled-out for behavior. • All grade-levels Hints & Tips: • • • Don’t overdo it. Maximum of 1 -2 hours per day. Assign points consistently when the game is in place. Balance teams with regard to gender, disruptive and non-disruptive students. Form a group of specific disruptive students if necessary. Jeannie Stark - Guajardo #16

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