Confidence and motivation play an important role in student success. Incentives and motivators reward students by recognizing their achievements, which can build confidence and motivate them to continue to tackle challenges. Encouragement can help prevent students from becoming discouraged before they achieve mastery.

Incentive Items and Charts

A variety of incentives and motivators are available so that the reward can be tailored to the achievement. For example, bookmarks and badges can make great one-time awards or recognition on special occasions whereas incentive chart packages for classrooms can be used to track and display progress at each stage of long-term projects. Among the charts available are text-free solid colored or print charts by Teacher Created Resources that can be customized by educators according to their classroom goals and individual chore charts by Trend Enterprises for school or home use.

Awards, Certificates, and Tickets and Coupons

Awards and certificates for students are available for the subject areas of art, music, language arts, foreign language, science, social studies, and math. Motivational awards and stickers as well as inspirational and religious certificates and awards can also be personalized to students to inspire them to do their best. Tickets and coupons can be awarded to students for academic success, good behavior, perfect attendance, and other prize-worthy achievements then used to claim rewards.

Stickers, Stamps, Novelty Items and More

Stickers are an easy and attractive way to mark progress or show recognition for accomplishments, which is why they make great accompaniments to incentive charts and motivational awards. Stickers can also be purchased individually and used on charts, awards, papers, bulletin boards, and other surfaces to honor achievements. Novelty items and other rewards have also been designed to recognize milestones, award as prizes, or integrate into classroom activities.

Suppliers know that stickers are often used generously in the classroom, so many offer bulk packages or books of stickers. Trend Enterprises offers themed 100-packs of stickers with motivational messages. Sticker books also allow educators to have plenty of motivators on hand. The Cat in the Hat Sticker Book by Eureka, Positive Power Sticker Book by Teacher Created Resources, and Stinky Stickers Praise Words Variety Pack by Trend Enterprises are just a few examples of the available collections of stickers. Stamps work to reward students in much the same way as stickers, and are available individually or in collections. Note that some stamps are also designed to keep teachers’ hands from getting tired by providing the text for commonly used phrases or text for labels.