Enhance the coloration of your home or classroom management using our smiley, kid-appropriated, behavior chart! Ideal for encouraging encouraging behaviors, these visual charts are fun and easy to use to help children make appropriate choices every day.
Children's emotional control can be enhanced with the use of behavior charts for several reasons:
- Visual Feedback: With the use of behavior charts, it is easy to monitor a child’s behavior throughout the day. This way of tracking behavioral performance helps the child in taking actions that are in congruence with the desired behaviors giving them a better chance of controlling their emotions and actions.
- Positive Reinforcement: Positive behavior receives rewards in the form of stickers and smileys or other markers on the chart. This is positive reinforcement for good behavior which is aimed at maintaining the display of several behaviors as well as managing emotions in a positive manner.
- Predictability and Routine: Behavior charts provide a sense of routine and help introduce the practice of clearly defined boundaries which can help in comforting the kids reinforcing compliance and reducing anxiety. Helping children understand what is expected of them and the benefits obtained by meeting those expectations can make them feel secure and help mitigate their levels of agitation.
- Self-Regulation Development: Behavioral Charts have an intrinsic value whereby as time goes by, the children learn the various aspects of self-regulation. Understanding that and learning to safely practice such motions, helps further avoid other complicated activities such as aggressive motion containment.
- Communication Tool: These charts also can act as a tool that helps in the communication of children, and between children and adults. They provide a basis for behavioral discussions and emotions which help children express how they feel and the effects of their actions.
- Empowerment: Children engage in some forms of behavior management (like putting stickers on the chart) which makes them feel in control and satisfied and this can help in improving their emotional management skills as well as their self-esteem.
Relative to their advantages, behavior charts should be used with caution and modified to suit the needs of each child. Control of behavior should not be the end state. There should always be support for positive behavior and emotional development.
What to put in your smiley behavior chart:
Child's Name and Date: Personalizing every chart with the student's name and date is crucial for monitoring day-to-day progress.
Behavior Levels:
0 = Did not meet goal
1 = Attempted to meet goal
2 = Achieved goal
Key Daily Activities: Include appropriate behavior monitoring sections for lunch, art, music, gym, and library times among others. Positive Reinforcement: Encourage success! Each student starts the day at ‘Ready to learn’ where he/she can progress to ‘Good choices’ through positive actions. Ending the day on ‘Good choices’ helps to acknowledge their success. Behavioral Guidelines: Include what behaviors are expected, and what behaviors are considered appropriate or inappropriate with examples.
For example:
‘Good choice’ Behaviors: Raising a hand, finishing in-class assignments as scheduled, being nice and polite to all students and adults i.e. teachers. ‘Poor choice’ Behaviors: Daydreaming or off-task behavior, shouting out answers without being called on, being noisy or engaging in other negative behaviors as defined by your classroom behavior management plan.
The smiley behavior chart: Why it should be used?
- Time Management: With this pre-designed template, there is no need to waste time on designing the chart thus allowing you to concentrate your energy on teaching.
- Good Layout: This chart has been designed with the special needs of teachers in mind; it allows for the physical arrangement of the classroom in a way that provides for easier and orderly management of learners’ behavior.
- Motivational Aspects: The use of smiling faces makes this chart more than just a behavior-tracking tool, as it makes the environment more engaging and promotes positive behavior in the classroom.
This behavior management chart comes in a very comprehensive Microsoft Office and Google Slides format, which is designed to allow you to edit it as per your classroom requirements. It allows users to implement the sustainment of such principles in the daily practice and control of children’s behavior.
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