Teacher's Assistant Pro A MUST HAVE FOR CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT!!!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teachers-assistant-pro-track/id391643755?mt=8

I have been using this app for almost three years and it has been a classroom management miracle for me and now many others in my school.  This app tracks student behaviors and is very user friendly.  As a teacher, you can quickly add and take away points for good or bad behaviors.  As a high school Career Tech teacher, a large portion of their overall grade is their Employability grade.  Through this app, I have customized the actions to the exact behaviors I want to see and the ones I don’t want to see, and each of them have a point value attached to them either positive or negative.  At the beginning of the semester, I hook up my iPad to the projector and show all my students the behaviors I want to see and those that I don’t want to see, and how many points will be taken or given if they choose to exhibit those behaviors.  I’ve attached a screen shot of one of my previous students where you can see the actions that were taken with him on the left, and on the right a list of actions that I could choose to give him.  Notice how each action has a point value attached to it, so when you select the action it automatically factors the points in, and these are all completely customizable.  As you can see you can take a picture of the student that stays in the app so you can more quickly put a name with a face.  My students can earn 15 employability points a week, 3 points a day, so with one action that takes away 3 points actually equals an employability grade of zero for that day.  Also as you can see, if I notice them encouraging a classmate in a task they earn an extra 3 points, which is basically an extra 100.  Every action you input is time and date stamped, so you can go weeks without recording their grade in the grade book.  I just have my iPad on my desk and if I observe an inappropriate behavior, I just pick it up and with the push of a few buttons I’m finished, but while I do that you can hear a pin drop in the classroom because everyone is wondering if it’s them or not, and I don’t say a word and keep right on going with the class.  And when I observe positive behaviors I pick it up, them honor that student in front of the class while I award them extra points.  It’s the best $5.99 I’ve ever spent for anything in my class before.  I have turned over a dozen teachers in my school on to it and it has changed the way they approach classroom management.  This is a key element to the classroom management system that I’ve created called “The Culture of Honor.”  Please ask me any questions you have about the program, because I know it pretty well!
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