Recognizing A Student’s Achievements With StoryBoardThat

Recognition and rewards for good behavior are important for the development of character. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) believes that rewards help children in three key ways. Firstly, good behavior is reinforced when it is met by a positive consequence such as a reward. Secondly, rewards are also powerful tools for boosting self-esteem. Finally, rewards are essential to enriching your relationship with a child. Many schools use reward programs to achieve these three key objectives. One way this is done is through awards programs. This is a way of rewarding students for specific achievements. 

StoryboardThat provides award templates that schools can use to reward their students for specific achievements. The platform comes with a deep library of templates that schools and teachers can use to find the right award template for them. There are awards templates of different kinds, mainly prizes, privileges, and certificates. The templates are customizable on the StoryboardThat Creator platform and can either be saved on the platform, used digitally, or printed out. 

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StoryboardThat created this platform in order to provide a vital service for schools and teachers. It is important to provide active recognition to students. Active recognition refers to tools that are used to memorialize a child’s good behavior and specific achievements. The recognition tells the child that what they have done is special and deserving of recognition. As the CDC reveals, in doing so, good behavior is reinforced, a child feels better about themselves, and a student-teacher relationship is enriched. 

Awards are made more powerful because they are often given at some ceremony, or in the least, before other students. This compounds the active recognition with experiential recognition. The students are given a setting which they can refer to, in which they can associate good behavior and specific achievements with positive experiences. For example, the student who is rewarded for kindness gets to experience strong positive emotions with that act of kindness. The awards ceremony marks in time a moment in which they were told that their kindness was appreciated. By recognizing the child’s good behavior or specific achievements, the student is encouraged to continue progressing with that behavior or achievement. The student’s self-image is bolstered by the idea that certain behaviors or achievements are a part of who they are. While students are imperfect, the lessons drawn from awards are important and help to positively shape the student. 

StoryboardThat’s awards template platform can be accessed through one of three subscription tiers: single teacher, department and school/district. This makes it accessible to different types of users. There has been a huge uptake of users, because of the way in which the awards platform helps teachers, departments and schools and districts to achieve their goals of promoting good behavior and academic progress. 

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Awards programs are essential to successful teaching. Students need awards programs. If we want to foster students with a healthy self-esteem, and who are motivated to become better students and members of society, we need to reward them for their good behavior and specific achievements.