The "Football Team Mentality"

One of the teachers at the conference told me that she has a jar in her classroom that she puts pennies in when everyone behaves. I told her that this was the "football team" mentality. In other words, everyone places pressure on each other to behave. This method is fine UNLESS the groups gets down on the one child who is not behaving. You know your class. If the group does not criticize the child who misbehaves, then fine.

However, children with ADHD typically have low self-esteem due arguably to being criticized every day of their lives. Therefore, if the group begins criticizing one child, I would throw out that intervention