Token Board

Today is my first day of freedom from finals, and I can't wait to get started on some new projects!  I wasn't planning on posting about this, but then I decided that it involves cute pictures, buttons, and a bit of sewing, so I decided it counts as a craft!  I am a special education major, and made this for one of my classes at school.

This is a called a token board.  It's used commonly in Special Education classrooms to keep students motivated to work.  You can either use it to help reinforce responding correctly to directions, or for behaviors that student is working on (such as feet on floor, sitting right in chair, hands to self, quiet mouth, etc.).  Each time you praise the child, you give them a token (the buttons in this case).  Once they get the 5 tokens, they get to do the activity they chose (sitting above the buttons).  While you're working with the child, you remind them how fun it'll be to do the activity once they've earned it.  This helps a ton in helping students learn that there are benefits to getting their work done at school!  It also helps teachers remember to praise and reward students for doing well!

This is the choice board listing different options the student can choose to work for.  The bag below has more choices inside as well.

Well, it's my first day of no-school, and I've got a lot on my list to do!  I'm so excited, I finally get to clean up some messes and have a clean house! Wahoo!  Hope you are all having a fabulous Christmas season!