Test scores and academic performance get a lot of talk in education - and rightly so - but classroom learning isn’t just about ingesting information and mastering skills, it’s about developing habits of mind and building character. Teachers spend a significant amount of their time managing student behavior but, for the most part, they’ve had few tools to help them out.
Teachers spend a significant amount of their time managing student behavior but, they don't have many tools to help them out.
Since launching last year, San Francisco-based ClassDojo has shown that game mechanics (and cutesy avatars) can go a long way in helping teachers not only keep their students on track but encourage positive behavioral skills.
