How do I do it? None other than the good old reward chart. I find that this works all the way from pre-schoolers to my P6. BUT, there are certain type of student that doesn’t do well with reward chart, for those, I will have to use alternative method.
As I was thinking about creating a brand new reward chart for this year, I didn’t want to use or do something that merely focus on academics. I want to include other areas like on-time submission of homework, character, accuracy in their work, etc. So, I came up with this:
“You are On-time”
Self-understood. Stamp is given when pupil submit their homework on-time.
“Bull’s eyes”
I do find my students are careless. While I want my student to aim for accuracy, I’m also fully aware that it is not easy. Therefore, I planned it such that the number of stamps earned can be up to 4 when they get higher than 95%, and 1 when they get 80%. So the more careful they are, the more stamps they get to collect.
“Wow!!! Impressive”
As mentioned, I do not want to merely focus on academics, I have also like to reward them for good efforts, positive attitudes towards tuition, helpfulness towards their tuition mates, humility, honesty, etc. So every time I spot my student displaying positive character, I will reward them with a stamp.
“And the Academy Award goes to…”
With every 10 stamps collected in the above, they get to earn a star for this category. Every odd number of stars earned equals a special treat of cake/ice cream/chocolates. For every even number of stars earned, I will give them a small gift.
Looks hard to earn? Not so. My niece have already earned 5 stamps just this one week! All because she really tried her best to do the work given, with good attitude, and on-time work submission. 
Plus the work give is topical. So it is really not difficult to do it well as long as they focused during the tuition.
So you see…
I want to give positive encouragement. And there are certainly lots of smile in my class And last year, my P2 English student kept asking for more homework!!! hahaha… (so she can earn stamps mah 
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Uh…
To give it a personal touch, I add picture of my student, and give different headings according to their character, interest, etc. Eg, for one, I put it as “Caring RRRR” cause she is currently crazy over Carebears. For another who is a boy, the heading is “Mighty DDDD” and gave the font an army look, and he is so happy
interesting. will like to try it with my girls….
is that ok with you?
Pray, share which kind of students who doesn’t do well with charts?
Of course you can, else I won’t share it over at my blog
As I pick schools to be holistic, I also want to give my students a holistic tuition, haha, if there is such a term.
Students who don’t do well with reward chart: Yes, I have a student like that. He does better with verbal encouragement. Every student is really different, and different one has to use different style.