Providing students with positive reinforcement for expected behaviours is one of the quickest and easiest ways to improve classroom behaviour and develop a positive classroom environment. Everyone needs positive feedback to learn and maintain a behaviour or skill. Behaviour is reinforced when we are provided with something we value following a desired behaviour. This may be verbal praise, non-verbal acknowledgement, earning of tokens, provision of tangible rewards, or opportunities to perform a task or participate in an activity.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | FREQUENCY | PURPOSE | CRITERIA |
| Weekly presented at assembly | To recognise students for positive choices | Students meet the weekly focus in either Care, Do or Speak Teachers use pre-printed stationery certificates. 1 student per class only. |
| Weekly drawn and presented at assembly | To recognise students for positive choices | Students names are drawn out of a House container. Winning student gets a ice block from tuckshop |
| | Recognise students for excellent choices | Students must achieve 20 total positive entries within weeks 1 to 9 of each term. |
| | Recognise the House for excellent choices | The House that has the most accumulated positive entries within weeks 1 to 9 of each term. |