Today, I've come to show off my newest clip chart. It withstood 5 weeks of use at Queenspark School, my host school, without even a scratch on it, and it'll be coming along to my first teaching post (where-ever that ends up being!). As before, the design comes from New Management's ebook, get it here. I decided to mix the colours up a little bit, putting red at the bottom. I find that having a glittery, special colour at the top makes it something to aim for. I also changed some of the wording, "Good Day" became "Showing Pride", "Great Job" became "Excellent Effort", "Think About It" became "Make Better Choices". I'm still not completely happy with the wording on the bottom two, but they work as intended- first, the teacher gets to choose what happens to the misbehaving student, then the parents are contacted. The chart is made out of coloured card, that has the labels glued on and then each piece covered with plastic contact. Holes were punched in each rectangle and then they were tied together with twine, with the knots hidden neatly at the back.
This clip chart couldn't have come into being without my dear friend, the Femme DM, who helped design and build it. Here is one of my Outstanding students, standing next to the clip chart. He was the first one to reach Outstanding and everyone was very pleased for him, including his fellow classmates.
The Clip Chart went down well in the classroom, the students responded positively to it and my host teacher said that it made a real difference with them. I have been keeping a daily behaviour chart to monitor their behaviour.
- The chart is just a simple spreadsheet, but feel free to grab it here: Click to download Clip Chart Daily Behaviour Record (Hosted on Google Drive)
- If you'd like my labels, they are here (.pdf): Click to download Clip Chart Labels (Hosted on Google Drive)
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