These reward chart ideas for classroom management come as a working chart: 68 goals and a Monday to Friday grid on one page. It opens as table points for four tables, with one shared goal and a focus goal each. Type yours over the sample.
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Table points for up to six tables
Type your tables or teams with commas between them, up to 6. A goal set to Everyone repeats under every table, which is the usual table points chart. A goal given to one table is its focus goal, and Rotate passes those round. The chart holds 30 rows: 6 tables sharing 5 goals.
A whole class reward chart
Clear the names and the page becomes a whole class reward chart: one block of up to 12 goals, such as Lined up in under 1 minute. Without a name the chart prints no points total, so keep one name, such as Room 12, if you want one. The reward line under the chart takes the class goal.
The Center on PBIS brief Ditch the Clip suggests a system where any student's effort moves the whole class forward. Clear the names for that.
Simple reward chart ideas for classroom routines time something you already do: Carpet to desks in 30 seconds, Room reset in 3 minutes.
Points weight a goal from 1 to 9. Compliment from a specials teacher arrives at 3, because the class cannot arrange one.
Questions and answers
What goes on a reward chart for classroom tables?
Things one table can do on its own: Table ready with books open, Supply caddy full and sorted, Everyone at the table had a turn. The group Table and team goals has 12. Each filled box adds to the total beside the table name.
Are these classroom reward chart ideas goals or prizes?
Goals. Each of the 68 lines is something a class or a table does. What the points add up to, such as extra recess, is yours to decide: type it in the Reward field and it prints under the chart.
Should I type student names?
Type table or team names. A chart on display is public. For one student's goals, the group One student, kept in a folder has 5 rows to print separately.
All 68 class goals
Table and team goals 12
All chairs pushed in at your tableEvery chair, every time the table empties: recess, lunch, specials and home time.
Every name on every paperChecked as the papers come in: a name on every sheet from the table.
Everyone at the table had a turnIn a group task or a game. Ask one student at the table, picked at random, whether it is true.
Floor clear under your tableScraps, pencils and sweaters picked up. Checked from a crouch, because that is where the scraps are.
Supply caddy full and sortedGlue lids on, scissors counted, pencils point down.
Table folder handed in completeOne folder per table, with a sheet from every student who is in today.
Table helped another tableLending supplies, sharing a method or helping to clean up once your own table is done.
Table materials back on the shelfMath tubs, whiteboards and markers returned to the labeled spot, lids on.
Table ready with books openEvery student at the table has the right book open to the right page when the teacher looks up.
Table tidy at the end of the lessonTabletop clear except for the caddy. Checked once, as the lesson ends.
Table voices at level 1Level 1 is a whisper that only the table can hear. Use whatever voice scale your room already has.
Whole table seated at the signalAll seats filled within 10 seconds of the chime or countdown.
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Arrival and morning routine 7
Chairs down and pencils sharpenedDone by the students during arrival, so the first lesson starts with nobody at the sharpener.
Coats and bags on the right pegsChecked from the door after the bell: the floor under the pegs is clear.
Homework in the tray before roll callThe tray is checked once, as roll call starts. Set your own share, such as 20 of 24 folders.
Lunch choice made before 8:45Every name moved on the lunch board by the time in the row. Retype the time.
Morning work started in 2 minutesTimed from the bell. Pencils moving at every table when 2 minutes are up.
Reading books swapped before the bellBook bags emptied and a new book chosen during arrival, not during the lesson.
Unpacked and seated by the bellBags on pegs, folders out and every seat filled when the bell goes.
Transitions and lining up 8
Carpet to desks in 30 secondsTimed aloud by a student with the classroom timer.
Clean up done before the song endsOne song, the same one every day. Floor, tables and sink done by the last note.
Eyes on the speaker at the signalWithin 5 seconds of the chime, clap or countdown you already use.
Lined up in under 1 minuteTimed from the signal to a straight, quiet line. Write the best time so far beside the chart.
Materials out before the timer ringsSet 1 minute. Book, pencil and whiteboard on every desk when it rings.
Silent line from the door to the gymFrom the classroom door to the gym door. The teacher at the other end can award it.
Switch stations at the first signalEvery group moving on the first signal, with the last station left ready for the next group.
Voices off at the chimeOne chime, and the room is quiet before the sound fades.
Carpet time and listening 7
Ask about a classmate's ideaThree questions from three different students in one session earn the box.
Hands up to speak at carpet timeFor one whole carpet session. Name the session before it starts.
Listen to the end of the instructionsNobody moves until the go word. Choose a go word and keep it for the week.
One voice at a time in discussionFor one discussion of about 10 minutes.
Sit in your own carpet spotEveryone on their own spot or square from the start of the session to the end.
Thumb signal when you have an answerA thumb held at the chest in place of calling out. Count the session, not each student.
Whole class tracking the speakerBodies turned to whoever is talking, a classmate included.
Independent and partner work 7
10 minutes of quiet independent workTimer on the board. The box is earned when it rings with the room still at a working hum.
Ask 3 classmates before the teacherFor questions about what to do next. Feeling unwell or upset always goes straight to the teacher.
Early finishers pick from the listAnyone who finishes goes to the posted list of choices without asking what to do next.
Everyone reading for 15 minutesBooks chosen before the timer starts, so the 15 minutes are all reading.
Finished work into the right trayChecked at the end of the day: the trays hold only what their labels say.
Whisper voices during partner workA partner can hear you and the next pair cannot.
Whole room on task at the spot checkOne check, at a minute the class cannot predict. Roll a die for the minute.
Hallway, specials and lunch 8
A good report from the guest teacherFor a day with a substitute. Leave the chart and one goal in the sub plans.
Assembly: seated and silent in 1 minuteTimed from the moment the first student enters the hall.
Compliment from a specials teacherMusic, art, PE or library. The compliment has to come unprompted.
Compliment from another adultA principal, a custodian, a lunch supervisor or a visitor says something good about the class.
Lined up at the first recess whistlePlay equipment carried in, and the whole class in line before a second whistle is needed.
Lunch tables wiped and trays stackedChecked by the lunch supervisor before the class is dismissed to recess.
Quiet line past other classroomsFrom your door to the end of the corridor, quiet enough that the rooms you pass keep working.
Walking feet all the way to the busFrom the classroom door to the bus door, bags on backs.
Kindness and teamwork 7
Caught helping a classmateSeen by the teacher, not announced by the helper. Three in a day earn the class box.
Cheer for another team's winIn PE, a review game or table points itself: applause for the winners from every other table.
Include someone new in a gameAt recess. Reported by the student who was included, not by the one who did the including.
Share supplies across the tableOne set of markers, four students, a finished poster.
Solve a problem with words at recessTwo students settle it themselves and tell the teacher how afterward.
Thank a helper by nameThe custodian, the lunch staff, a parent volunteer. Said by the class or written on a card.
Welcome a visitor to the roomThe greeter stands, says good morning and offers a chair. The rest of the class keeps working.
Clean up and end of day 7
Chairs stacked before the bellStacks of the height your custodian asks for, against the agreed wall.
Classroom library shelves straightSpines out, bins labeled side forward, returns bin empty.
Floor clear of scraps at pack upEach student picks up 5 things, then the floor is checked from the door.
Lost and found pile at zeroFriday only: every sweater and water bottle claimed or sent to the office box.
Mailboxes emptied into backpacksEvery mailbox empty when the last student leaves, letters home included.
Room reset in 3 minutesTimer on the board. Floor, desks, shelves and sink back to how the room looked at 8:00.
Tablets back in their numbered slotsEvery slot filled and every cable in. Checked by the student with the tech job.
One student, kept in a folder 5
Hand up and wait for helpAgree a signal that the hand has been seen, so the wait has an end.
Morning check-in with the teacherThirty seconds at the teacher's desk before the first lesson. Turning up earns the box.
Planner filled in before pack upTonight's homework copied down and shown to the teacher on the way to the pegs.
Start work within 1 minuteFor one student's own chart, kept in a folder or inside the desk lid and never on the wall. Marked by the teacher with a nod, not an announcement.
Use the break spot, then returnThe box is for coming back to the task when the sand timer runs out.
How this list was compiled: Goal wordings and hint lines written for this site on 2026-09-18 from ordinary elementary classroom routines. No published list was copied. Every row says what the class or the table does, none uses no, stop or not, and none is a reward. Framing checked against the Center on PBIS (University of Oregon, www.pbis.org, a website funded by a US Department of Education grant): its Classroom PBIS topic page, https://www.pbis.org/topics/classroom-pbis, and its practice brief 'Ditch the Clip! Why Clip Charts Are Not a PBIS Practice and What to Do Instead' by K. McIntosh, G. Sugai and B. Simonsen, February 2020, https://www.pbis.org/resource/ditch-the-clip-why-clip-charts-are-not-a-pbis-practice-and-what-to-do-instead. The brief was read in full on 2026-09-20. It objects to a chart that shows each student's level in public, and one alternative it names is an interdependent group system, where prosocial behavior from any student moves the class one step closer to a social reward, such as marbles in a jar. It also says to address unwanted behavior privately, which is why the one-student rows here are for a folder and not the wall. The history of team points in classrooms was checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Behavior_Game (it began in 1967 in Baldwin City, Kansas; the first study, in a 4th grade classroom, was published in 1969). Times, counts and shares in the rows (1 minute, 30 seconds, 20 of 24 folders) are our own and are there to be retyped. The points value (2 or 3) is our own rough measure of how hard a goal is to earn; a row without one counts 1 point. The groups are our own starting points, not a standard. Licence: own work