PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT INCENTIVE CHAIN-PUNCH CARD

Parents,

I will be starting a new incentive program using beads for my younger students and a punch card for the older... The children will be rated each week 1-5 (see below) on their practice at lessons.  No more teacher looking at practice sheets!  Students will still mark the sheet and keep a tally of their own practice record.... I will know how well they practiced by their execution of the assignment in each lesson..... Here are the criteria:

1=Student was completely unprepared and likely did not practice much at all during the week. Progress may be lost. Supervised practice is necessary. 

2=Student may have practiced a bit, but was unable to demonstrate a minimum 50% of their assignment at the lesson. Progress was limited this week. Supervised practice is strongly recommended.

3=Student practiced, but could not demonstrate a mastery of the assignment. Home practice habits may need to be reviewed or the student may have failed to complete the assignment by forgetting written work, leaving a book at home, or forgetting to read the assignment instructions and could not demonstrate the instruction in the lesson. Progress may be limited.

4=Student practiced, completed the assignment, and demonstrated a satisfactory understanding of the entire assignment in the lesson. This was a job well done! The student will progress quickly.

5=Student not only practiced the assignment, but went beyond and played even better than I expected. Student may have looked ahead or practice more than was assigned. Student will progress VERY quickly.

Each student will want to achieve a 5 each week...  There are 15 weeks in the Fall Semester x 5 =75 beads or punches possible....After each lesson be sure to ask your child how many beads they strung or holes punched. 

This will be exciting for all students who practice because their reward will be a $10 amazon gift card for having either 65-75 beads or holes punched at the end of Fall Semester...(just in time for Christmas!) I will keep their bead chains at my house, teens will be responsible to carry their own punch cards.  

REMEMBER PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT, BUT PERFECT PRACTICE WILL BE THE GOLDEN TICKET FOR AN AMAZON GIFT CARD!