The school I teach at uses PBIS. Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports is meant to be a multi tiered approach to social, emotional and behavior support. While I don't necessarily agree with the extrinsic drivers that seem to be a central component of the system, it does provide a great deal of common language.
My school use little tickets to reinforce positive behaviors. While younger kids are driven by that extrinsic motivator, it seems as if my 5th graders have outgrown the drive. I do like that the tickets remind me to recognize positive behavior. However, how do I create student ownership of the system? Flipgrid + Google Drawing for the Win!
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So I thought, why not try to find a way for students to own the pictures on our tickets. Enter the meme....because who doesn't love to create memes?
The first phase of this ticket redesign was creating positive messages in the forms of memes. My 5th graders used Google Drawing to insert images they had permission to use. Once the images were added, they used text boxes to add positive words for their memes. You can see some of their creations below. These memes became the fronts of our tickets.
While the memes were a fun way to vary what kind of ticket students would receive, we wanted to add another layer. We wanted students to be able to scan the ticket to hear a verbal recognition of their awesomeness. We used Flipgrid to create and house our positive messages. The best part is that Flipgrid generates a QR Code for every recording that is posted to a topic. As long as the grid has sharing enabled, simply open up a video post and find the airplane at the top right. Once you click on the airplane, you can grab a URL, Embed code or a QR Code.
We took our video QR Codes and placed them onto the back of our meme creations. Not only would students get a positive message from the meme, but they would also have the option to scan the QR Code and hear another positive message. When we started this process, I was hopeful that students would not only enjoy the process, but that the newly designed tickets would help grow our class culture to one that oozes empathy and kindness.
When I gave out the first ticket, the student was already on a Chromebook and went to Web QR to scan the QR Code. The video message was only a few seconds long, but he immediately turned to the student who created it (even though it was someone he normally doesn't talk to) and said, "Thanks for the message." The message creator looked a bit dumbfounded and replied, "Oh, um, no problem." This was so cool to see two students that normally don't chat come together over a simple meme and positive video message. Something I would change If I was to change one thing, it would be recording our positive videos on a different day. It just so happens that Halloween took place on the day we recorded our videos. Fail on my part, but adds some extra fun to the positive messages. See some examples below.
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Andrew FenstermakerInstructional Technology Coordinator | Innovation Coach | Google Certified Innovator | Presenter | Blogger | Adjunct @UiowaEducation | Owner @kids_f_i_r_s_t |