You Rock Awards (Classroom Management Linky Party)

Having a strong classroom management system that students are excited about is key to having your classroom run smoothly.  This can especially be hard in middle school!  In both of our 6^th grade classrooms, we try to focus on positive student behaviors as much as possible.  Last year we came up with the idea to do weekly awards in all of our classes.  We have over 130 students each, so we needed to come up with something that would be inexpensive (preferably free!) and very easy to implement.  We decided that we would award 2-3 students per class (we each have 5) on Fridays with a You Rock Award.  These awards can be given out for anything from having a positive attitude to doing well on a project or simply being a great friend to someone in class.  On Fridays we would have a quick “awards ceremony”.  Students were always excited to see who would be getting the awards for that week.  In my classroom I would announce who the award was being given to and why. The student would then come and get their You Rock Award certificate and we would give them snaps.  For example, let’s say Johnny earned an award that week.  We would cheer “Way to go Johnny, way to go”, and then snap twice. We would repeat this three times! The students LOVED it!! Once all of the students in a class earned a You Rock Award, students could then nominate their classmates for a You Rock Award.  One of my students came up with this idea and created a You Rock Award nomination box.  Students would write down who they wanted to nominate and why.  I would then pick 2-4 nominations out of the box and allow the nominators to fill out a You Rock Awards and present it on Friday to their nominee.  Our 6^th graders would get so excited about this every week!!!! Sometimes when students earned an award they would also get a piece of candy to go with it.  This system would work great with all age levels!!!

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