Summary Of Positive Reinforcement Plan

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According to District Administration, in 2013 the state of Alabama put into place a new positive reinforcement plan for eight school districts. This is to help students be ready for college, and improve their behavior as a whole. “The top goals set forth for this program were to increase attendance, improve academic achievement and reduce disciplinary infractions” (p. 27). Teachers were trained and given tools to help their students. In order to make their goals happen, the teachers used a point system to reward students with outstanding achievements rather than taking things away for bad behavior. The points that were gained could be cashed out for prizes incorporating school functions or school related activities. Students are allowed to login online to keep track of how many points they have garnered, and the school found that the more
At the end of the year, “there was an eighteen percent reduction in absence year-over-year, discipline infractions decreased by half, and the number of