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Friday, October 14, 2011

Classroom Incentives for Games




Last blog article, we talked about the components of making good learning games. Now, let’s discuss the useful incentives for learners’ involvement.

Candy Prizes

Rewarding learners with different kinds, colors, shapes, or various flavors of candy is a powerful allurement when they answer the correct answers in the class. The things need to be checked before employing this award in the class are to investigate learners history of food allergy and the permission from parents.

Extra Credit

This incentive is especially for playing learning games in the class. The way to count the extra points can be personally or with a whole group. The point of extra credit is to call different students to answer the task based questions for offering more opportunities of expressing and practicing in the class.

Pizza Party

Pizza parties are appropriate to reviewing the whole lesson information at the end of the lesson day. Students need to comprehend the main points of the lesson and answer the challenging questions from teachers by not missing too many mistaken answers to gain their pizza parties as their praises. This can also be used to compete with other class in school to arouse the sense of cooperation by learning.

Movie Day

This method of reward can be used for the whole class participation. The tips of choosing the movies are according to learners’ age, interests, and the mortal of the story. Students are allowed to bring snakes and drinks to share in the class.


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