From Sue Watson,
Your Guide to Special Education.
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One of the greatest motivators to improve student behavior is to provide an incentive or reward for appropriate behaviors that occur over a defined period of time. Better yet if you let your student/child pick from the list below.

• Become a helper to the custodian, librarian, another teacher or the office staff.
• Become a class monitor for a specific area of need e.g., hall monitor, room check monitor, tidy monitor etc.
• Helping a younger student with a learning task for a specified period of time.
• Earn points for a class video.
• 15 minutes of free choice activity.
• Work with a friend.
• Wear your ball cap or favorite hat for a work period.
• Read a comic book.
• Show or tell the class something you have or did.
• Have lunch with your favorite person or the teacher.
• Read a story to the principal or to another class.
• Hand out supplies for a defined number of activities.
• Free time in another classroom.
• Receive a positive note for home.
• Pick something from the prize box.
• Pick something from the treat box. (Keep it healthy, crackers, animal cookies, fruit, juice boxes, popcorn, granola bars, marshmallows etc.
• Earn tickets toward free time.
• Free pencil, pen or eraser.
• Positive phone message or email home.
• Free poster.
• Free story for the whole class!(A strategy like this lets others help the student at risk stay on target.
• Earn a cooking day for the class.
• Take the bubble blower out a recess.
• Free homework pass.
• Leader for the day.
• An additional gym period with another class (be sure to partner up with a teacher for exchanges like this one).
• Listen to the radio or CD with a headset for a specified period of time
• Have work posted in the hall or near the office.
• Enjoy a game with a friend or in another class.
• Be the leader for the first gym activity.

If nothing on this list interests the child, ask what type of incentive he/she believes would help him/her to obtain their behavior goals and help keep them on track.

You may wish to use a checkmark or sticker system and have the child reach a specified number prior to receiving the incentive. Have a look at some of the behavior plans here where a marking system is in place.