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75 Ways to Provide Incentives/Rewards during E-learning

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75 Ways to Provide Incentives/Rewards during E-learning

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Which e-learning incentives are your favorite?  Why?

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Technology has made it easier to continue education even when it's not possible to physically be in the classroom. Distance learning, or eLearning, has been a mainstay of post-secondary education for many years now. It allows working adults to pursue a degree and remain employed. But for many teachers and students in elementary, middle, and high school, distance learning is not typically part of the school environment.

Distance Learning and PBIS

When circumstances force teachers and students out of the classroom and into an eLearning situation, it can be challenging to stay on track. Maintaining your PBIS initiative might feel impossible in times like these, but you CAN offer PBIS incentives during distance learning! PBIS Rewards makes it easy for you to reward your students anywhere - even when they're not in your physical classroom. Keep connected with your students, award points, and let your students redeem their earnings, all virtually!

Need some ideas for PBIS incentives to use with distance learning?

We've got you covered! You can use these incentive ideas to keep your students engaged and make the most of your time in the virtual classroom.

Some of these distance learning incentives are designed to work in a digital classroom environment, and their effectiveness may depend on your school's approach to eLearning. For example, "Lunch with the Assistant Principal" would be a virtual lunch meeting via Google Hangout, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, GoToMeeting... however you may be connecting with your students. As schools everywhere adjust and adapt to new methods of learning, distance learning incentives can help maintain a sense of togetherness within the school community.

Have an idea for PBIS incentives for distance learning? Share it and we'll add it to the list!

Students get to change their virtual backgrounds on Zoom.

Simply click on the arrow next to Start Video and change your virtual background or add your own image. Students will be motivated to log in to see their classmates' new backgrounds (Minecraft, lollipops, etc!)

Price: Free
Value:
Category: Privilege

Submitted by: Kelly Gordon (Flourtown)

Choose Video Conferencing Virtual Background

Student chooses the virtual background the teacher will use during video conferencing with the class

Price: Free

Category: Privilege

This was our end-of-summer party. I ordered Mickey Mouse ears (Girls & Boys), gift bags, and treats (cotton candy, cracker jacks, ring pops, Mickey Mouse Goldfish crackers, etc.). I delivered them to my students. If you have too many to deliver, you could mail the ears only.

I Zoom shared the 12 most exciting Disney Virtual rides... along with the parade and fireworks at the end. We had a wonderful day at the park. I gave trivia information in between rides and shows. There is also a video taking you into the park and on the monorail.

Everything was purchased on Amazon. About $5 a child for ears/treats. $1.50 per child for ears only.

Price: Bulk

Category: Privilege

Submitted by: Robin Gray (Friendship Ideal Academy)

Students can enter into a monthly drawing/raffle to win a Door Dash lunch delivery.

In distance learning, this can be delivered to their home, instead of to them at the school.

Price: $5 or More

Category: Tangible

Submitted by: Esperanza Soria (Wrenn Middle School, TX)

Send a laptop sticker to students with a personalized message. You can buy laptop stickers in bulk for as low as $5. Consider school branded laptop stickers.

If in distance learning, the sticker and message can be mailed to the student.

Price: Inexpensive
Value:
Category: Tangible

Submitted by: Jacquelin Camacho (Wheeling, IL)

Online Book Reading

Read a book online to your students. Have them choose from an approved selection.

Read, Wonder, and Learn! Favorite Authors & Illustrators Share Resources for Learning Anywhere - Spring 2020

Price: Free
Value:
Category: Privilege

Teachers can create personalized backgrounds for students based on the qualities they wish to recognize.

This is easy to do using Canva, a digital product/print creating platform that has a free upgrade for educators. Educators can use already created Zoom templates and individualize them to match the student.

Price: Free
Value:
Category: Recognition

Submitted by: Tiffany Garbiso (Santa Ana High School)

Student(s) can redeem this rewards and get a fun, silly, or energetic photo ( or video) with their friends that is shared by the teacher or school. This could even be shared via social media by the school, PBIS team, or teachers.

See example on Instagram

Price: Free
Value:
Category: Privilege

Submitted by: Mrs. Ashton, Rio Vista Elementary in Anaheim, CA

Students can have their picture/photo/video (if allowed by a parent/guardian) shared as a social media shout out on the school's social media account(s).

This would have to be verified by the teacher in order to have the student's name/picture/video release.

Price: Free
Value:
Category: Recognition

Submitted by: Samantha McBride (Houston, TX)

Spirit Week

Participate in a Spirit Day activity, i.e.:

Elementary:  Monday - Wear Pajamas, Tuesday - Crazy Hair, Wednesday - Crazy Socks, Thursday - Dress Like Your Teacher, Friday - Hat Day

Secondary: Monday - Wear Pajamas, Tuesday - Wear School Colors, Wednesday - Crazy Socks, Thursday - College Gear, Friday - Hat Day  Being on time for video lessons

Price: Free

Category: Privilege

Spoon Balancing Challenge

Students can challenge the teacher or other students with the spoon balancing challenge. Place the spoon on the bridge of your nose so that the handle is pointing down towards the floor and whoever can get the spoon to stay on their nose for the longest period of time wins!

In distance learning, this can be adjusted to be during a Zoom/Classroom video session.

Price: Free
Value:
Category: Privilege

Allow students add X test points for use on a future test of their choice.

Price: Free

Category: Privilege
Value:
Submitted by: Maria Price, Nimitz Sr High School, Houston, TX

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This list of incentives for distance learning is a great asset for your PBIS program and virtual PBIS implementation. Have one to add? Share it.

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Here is an article that I found valuable for me.  I found myself in this mindset when I was planning on how to make paper packets for at-home learning.  It's odd because this is a concept that I am very familiar with, but the moment I was moved out of my comfort zone into e-learning, I found myself falling back into bad habits.

https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/do-something/
(A short excerpt from the article is below)

"Every day, for the most part, information is delivered to them in some really basic way—usually PowerPoint—and the kids copy down what the teacher tells them to from the slides. Then they have some sort of worksheet where they’re basically regurgitating what was on those slides. After this cycle repeats four or five times, they have some kind of test. And that’s it.

"This is not good. If we want our students to actually learn the facts and concepts and ideas we’re trying to teach them, they have to experience those things in some way that rises above abstract words on paper. They have to process them. Manipulate them.  To really learn in a way that will stick, they have to DO something."

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Question: How have you  been keeping class culture alive? 

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Question: What is the #1 resource that you have found helpful in your class this month?

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Question: What is the #1 resource that you have found helpful in your class this month?

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Comment and share a little bit about the most helpful resource you have been using this past month.

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I recently spoke with a teacher from another country who was struggling with the transition to e-learning in a COVID-19 world.  The teacher was frustrated because he students communicating with him at all times and expecting him to respond immediately.  After a brief chat, he realized that he hadn't actually provided the students any specific guidelines on how to communicate with him or what to expect.  He decided that he needed to start by providing explicit guidelines on how students should contact him and how long they should expect it to take for him to respond.   This caused me to reflect on how it is still important, even in an e-learning format, to lay down a strong foundation of classroom expectations and procedures.   This was the first time I had encountered this particular scenario, so it also made me think about how much I still don't know about e-learning,

Our district spent almost a week providing professional development to teachers on the e-learning transition.  When it was first announced, it had seemed excessive to me.  In hindsight, teachers could have even benefited from an extra week of planning together and collaborating closely with instructional coaches, campus admin, and district coordinators to make sure we are laying that strong foundation.

We're all growing as professionals and learning new skills and exploring new perspectives.  The teachers that I work with are so incredible.  They have been creating varied and stellar lessons, and have somehow managed to stay positive and optimistic throughout this transition.  I see teachers posting things in their Google Classrooms that are thoughtful, that are silly, and that remind students that while they are learning, it's also okay to be human.  Our middle school teachers have been engaging in a level of cross-school collaboration that I have never seen before, planning together in large district PLCs and then adapting those plans for their own classrooms.

It's inspiring to think that throughout the world, educators are all adapting, learning, and growing as people and as professionals, and almost every educator around the world will come out of this with a set of skills and a new perspective that they didn't have before.