Class dojo

ClassDojo is a tool that helps teachers boost classroom engagement and improve student behavior quickly and easily, with just one click! It also lets teachers communicate behavior data with parents and students. Best of all, it’s completely free!

Behavior management finally made positive

• Award feedback points for specific behaviors, learning habits, and accomplishments in class

• Everything is logged in realtime - with just one click.

See engagement in minutes

• All of the avatars, behaviors, virtual badges, and other engaging visuals are pre-loaded for you so you can hit the ground running 

• Everything else is also instantly and easily customizable for your classroom! 

Get beautiful, hassle-free behavior reports - with no data entry

• Track behavior and skill trends - with just one click! No after-school data entry, and without diverting attention from your class

• Gain valuable insights that might otherwise go unnoticed

Let students track their own progress

• Let students reflect on their in-class performance with their own accounts

• Build positive learning habits that last a lifetime

Send reports to parents with one click

• Share student progress with parents regularly

• Get parents informed and on your side quickly and easily

Track points with your smartphone, tablet, or iPod Touch

• Award points on the go, wherever you are: in a class, at home, on a field trip or anywhere else!

• No more lugging clipboards around, taking time or being tied to your computer.

Student Introduction to ClassDojo - YouTube

Check it our this handout! and this article!

Since I use Class dojo, my students behave much better, they are motivated and on task. Each class have their own file so I can check what class is doing better as well as those aspects that they need to improve as a class and individually too.

My positive stickers are:

- Be prepared ( When they bring their supplies)

- Participation ( When they participate actively)

- Citizenship ( Being a good citizen implies helping other students and being respectful to the teacher to the other students). My students get citizenship stickers when they allow others learn by participating, being quiet and respectful or by helping other classmates.

- Content (Students get content stickers when they show that they speak Spanish).

- Performance ( My classes involves a lot of speaking activities and language performance, so when they do a great job, they are rewarded).

-Being quiet in line: Sometimes students need to wait for their home teacher, so I have stickers for this time. It´s a amazing how well they behave now!

My negative stickers are:

- Unprepared ( Students do not bring their supplies). One of my goal as a teacher is to make them responsible for their own learning. This s a great starter even with lower grades!

- Disrespectful ( Students get this sticker when they misbehave by stopping me from teaching or other students from learning).

- Off task ( Students are not on task)

- Talking in line.

This my routine with Class Dojo:

First of all, we take attendance and students can see how many points they have. Those that have more points become my helpers by passing the folders, leading the activities, etc. My whole point is to show the rest of the classroom that this is the behavior and attitude I expect from them.

Obviously,  the rest of the class participate actively too. For instance, if Amaya is one of the top of the class, she can choose who is going to lead the next activity, do the calendar activity and so on. In my opinion, we need to make our students be an active part in our teaching because it´s not about us, it´s about THEM! 

THEY ARE THE MAIN ACTORS AND ACTRESSES OF THIS MOVIE!

At the end of the class, we have a look at the points and I reward verbally those that they have done a great job. Then, we choose those who collect the folders and everyone lines up. Then, looking at the scores, I choose the person that is going to monitor the line using my Ipad. This person is allowed to give Quiet in line or Taking in line stickers. Before implementing this, you need to train your students to make sure they know what to do.

It seems to have a lot of work, however using Class dojo, my classes go smoothly and I don´t have behavior problems anymore. If you have an Smartphone or an Ipad, you can move around the classroom while tracking points.