Building Life-Long Skills: Using a Classroom Financial System

How do you manage the little infractions that test your classroom discipline? How do you organize school chores? Teach money management skills? Choose year-end gifts?

Chester Weaver describes the method he has adapted from Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire. Although it seemed complicated at first, Chester says the system actually saves him work and effectively accomplishes a number of goals. A financial system will not be appropriate for every classroom, but Chester says this approach can be customized to fit your situation.

Watch the video, then leave a comment: what have you found to be effective in classroom management?

Download sample documents from Chester's system or view them below.