The Golden Ticket
Number of people: Any.
Materials: A shiny, glittering, well-designed Golden Ticket and a book of raffle tickets.
Time: 5 minutes.
Overview:
The Golden Ticket creates the very moment of buzz, intrigue, excitement and expectation which gets students talking, puts a smile on their faces and has them returning to lessons in a great mood - thus doing no harm at all to your status as their favourite teacher.
I’m not a great fan of rewards because there is a danger of them being relied on as a behaviour management cure-all. When they are promised in advance of desired behaviour outcomes – ‘do this and I’ll give you this’ - they are nothing more than bribes, and as such are worse than ineffective. But as a spontaneous, unexpected treats, they can be tremendous mood changers and motivators.
The Golden Ticket can be used to represent a huge variety of pleasurable experiences for your students, with the proud winner being even luckier than young Master Charlie Bucket himself. The lucky ticket holder could be entitled to:
- early lunch
- five minutes of a preferred activity such as: PC time, drawing, playing a game, eating a snack, having a cup of tea, watching a film etc. Texting is a surefire winner.
- a no-homework night!
Directions:
1. Issue a raffle ticket to every student then draw one from a hat. The winner gets the ticket.
2. If you prefer, give tickets out in return for good behaviour/participation. Try to make sure every student gets at least one raffle ticket before you make the draw. Obviously, the more raffle tickets an individual has earned, the more chance they have of winning.
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