Level 2: Practice Cards

The Scoreboard addresses behavior issues in your class as a whole.  Practice Cards target individual student behavior.  In brief, label each pocket of a card pocket chart with a student’s name or number.  When a student breaks one of the five classroom rules, place a white card with that rule number in his/her card pocket.  Students rehearse for two minutes the gesture for the rule they’ve broken at recess.  At the end of the day, a note goes home asking parents to help students with additional rule practice.  With the exception of students from unreliable families, the white card stays in the card pocket until the note comes back from home.

White cards are used when students break a classroom rule.

Purple cards are used to reward students for following a rule.

Green cards are used to help students practice a rule in class.

The entire system is described in detail in “Practice Cards,” under "Free Downloads" on this site.