Thursday, December 15, 2011
Causing a Problem for Others
One of the tougher concepts I try to teach across my case load is the idea of perspective taking and how an individual's behavior affects others. I want to try a game in my social groups called the good behavior game, in which a "team" of students have points and keep their points if all of the members in the group follow the classroom rules (practice "good" behavior). If one student does not follow the rules, the team loses a point. Research on this game has shown me good results; however, I am wondering if anyone has experience with implementing this in their classroom or with small groups? Thanks :).
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I love incorporating games and challenges aka competition into small parts of my classroom. I know that research shows that males respond better to competition than females. My advice is that before I play any games we talk about the word empathy and the concept of being in someone else's shoes. I also preface that not everyone is going to win. I think your idea of having teams might keep everyone accountable. Hopefully they won't start blaming each other for "losing". Let me know how it goes.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment, Ted. I started pre-teaching the procedures for the game today; the first barrier the students came up with was the blaming game (like you mentioned). I think if a student begins to purposefully sabotage the team's progress, then that student will need some more intensive empathy training...which was the point of the game, hm. There may need to be a seperate way to handle the game for students who intentionally lose team points.
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