House of Marbles Marble Reward Jar

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There is some research that suggests over-relying on extrinsic motivation and tangible rewards can be a negative thing in the long run, but as long as you’re smart about it and doing plenty of OTHER things as a mom or dad to raise good kids, chances are you don’t have to worry. Instead of offering them a prize for doing what you want, perhaps try offering them a choice between two acceptable options. When implementing the Marble Jar Rewards System into the classroom, you must pre-plan what behaviors you are looking for, communicate this to students, and continually remind them of the behaviors they must exhibit.

There are dozens of different ways that marble incentive jars can be used, and they all come down to your personal classroom behavior management style. But here’s one of our favorites as it focuses on reinforcing positive behavior! Punishments can be very effective at getting human beings, big and small, to stop or avoid negative behaviors.

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Build rewards for each level on your jar so they can celebrate small successes on the way to their grand prize. The Marble Jar Reward System is a common classroom management tool to help reinforce desired behaviors. This positive reinforcement strategy is typically utilized as a whole class reward system but can also be modified for individual students. The most common use of the Marble Jar System is for the teacher to set up a glass jar in an easily viewable location, like the top of a shelf or her desk. Choose a jar size that is not too large; or, if you choose a large jar, add a tired system by drawing lines at various points along the jar to create levels that students can achieve as they work to fill up the jar. How to Use the Jar Offering rewards can sometimes lead to a very unattractive bargaining attitude with kids where they ask, ‘What do I get if I do this?”

With a reward or consequence jar, you write down as many of the ideas from above, plus your own, on little slips of paper and fill a jar with them. It’s kind of a subtle difference, and the piece of candy remains the same, but the context around how the candy is used completely changes the impact. It goes beyond things like ‘rewarding them for completing age-appropriate chores’ and instead encourages the children to work at being kind, generous, grateful and helpful.Yes! While marbles are what makes the marble jar, you can also create jars full of literally anything as your reward. But, the reason why marbles are so much fun for the kids is because of the PLUNK! sound they make when they get dropped in the jar. However, if that sound drives you nuts, there are certainly plenty of other reward system jar ideas you can implement. You were angry with your brother when he wanted all my attention today. But instead of getting upset you told me with your words how you were feeling and what you needed. That made it easy for us all to be together. Marble in the jar for you!” Add a few full layers of marbles to the jar. Ask students to use multiplication to determine how many marbles there are. To make it easier, make each layer a different color. It takes the kids about two weeks to a month to fill up the cotton ball jar because it is a special thing and is not given for every little thing that they do. Operant conditioning associates a certain behavior, good or bad, with a certain consequence, good or bad.