how many classrooms...In my class I use a stoplight poster. All the kids have clothespins with their pictures. Everyone starts the day on green. We have set classroom rules. They are given gentle reminders, if they continue to break the rules they move their clip down to yellow, if behavior continues they may move to red. When they are caught being good they are told to move their clip back up. At the end of the day, if you are on green you get in the treasure box. This works for 3 of my 4 autistic kids (despite the autism expert telling me it wouldn't). The fourth child doesn't respond to anything other than "first -then" There is no one size fits all. I have another system for an extremely impulsive student. He earns a Spongebob card at reading group if he is on task, another one at math if he is on task, and the third one during writing time. If he earns all three he gets in the treasure box. In defense of the teachers, as a parent I understand ignoring negative behavior, but honestly in a classroom of 15 kids you simply cannot just ignore all negative behavior. You cannot just ignore extremely disruptive or violent behavior and hope it will stop. I have a good classroom management, and I think the key is being flexible and knowing one thing will not work for every child and using a mixture of negative and positive reinforcement. My son's teachers started it in 4 year old pre-k. If you have concerns, you should speak with his teacher. Perhaps she can modify the program for him. Many teachers use systems like this. This can frequently be seen in regular elementary classrooms, whether it's Popsicle sticks or red/green/yellow cards. he started with her in september, she has used sticks since the begining, he is the same kid as he was in sept. i'm worried that it is maintaining his inappr. behavior, he seeks negative attention. i have learned it is best to ignore with him. use negative conseq.? in my son's class, the kids start the day with 3 sticks, if the kids have inappr. behavior they lose a stick. this is a k-3 self contained class in district. no previous teachers have ever done this. i'm worried about the unintended consequences that can arise from this. anybody else? Hmm, I would worry. I know that my son would not get the concept at all,and would soon give up. As a teacher and a parent, this just rings wrong for me. Maybe this would work for some kids, but for kids on the spectrum, it may be setting them up to fail. HarrietI hate to say it, but negative consequences do not work for my kids. They just get angry or not understand and enjoy the attention. And if negative consequences worked so much better than positive consequences on NT folks why does the IRS have a hard time getting money and Los Vegas does not. We tried something similar for my K son which was crossing out a happy face when he did something really bad. He got such a charge out of the whole thing that he intentionally did bad things to see the reaction and then giggled about it. I'd suggest that the teacher start with an empty cup and add to it when good things happen. If the kids are far enough along, she can try what the Center For Social Thinking does: Start with an empty cup and add red sticks for bad things and blue ones for good things and then compare at the end of the day. But the kids have to be far enough along to mentally compare the red and the blue to be able to realize that it takes a lot of blue to "erase" a red --- but it can be done. The problem I see with your teacher's method is that it won't take long for the kids to figure out that good behavior is unrewarded. I'd vote for getting her to talk to an behaviorist with autism experience since (in my experience) teachers seem to think parents just crawled up from under a rock and should under no circumstances be trusted with impressionable kids. When did she start doing this? How has your ds been doing so far? |
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