Class Dojo - An Effective Management Tool

Hello!

So this past school year I discovered the amazing classroom management tool Class Dojo.

Our classroom uses the website for individual, incentive-based rewards.  It's very easy to set up for students and offers immediate results.  You enter the students names and each student is assigned a character!  So cool!  If students sign up at home they can even change their character.  My students were able to do this and absolutely LOVED it!  Students are awarded points for activities such as helping others, hard work, and being on task. 

 

This is what the interface looks like on the Class Dojo page.  You just click a students name to add points to their character.

I took this a step further this year and printed out all their characters.  As a class we came up with rewards that each student could earn by gaining a certain amount of points.  They were able to "level up" their characters.

This is our classroom bulletin board.  You can see students were able to earn helmets and swords for their characters.

The neat thing about the program is that when students earn points it makes a noise similar to Mario grabbing a coin.  If the class ever started to get a little chatty I could ring up a few points and the kiddos would immediately quiet down and try to earn their character some points.  Very effective and fun!

Overall a good tool that took very little upkeep once I set up the bulletin board.