u/sincerestfall

I have been playing around with gamifying things a bit. Focus on grades less, but students earn XP and level up instead. Idea I have so far is having 25 levels, and every 5 levels students go to a different tier. Initiate(1-5), Novice(6-10), Scholar(11-15), Expert(16-20), Master(21-25). So, ideally, they get to Master by the end of the course. The first question is, has anyone tried anything like this, and how did it go?

Secondly, I would like to create a space on my wall to track progress. What I have in mind is a chart with Students vertically and progress vertically, and they have an actual character that gets moved. Some laminated clip art type thing. I would like the character to actually upgrade going from tier to tier. So if I have 30ish different students and 5 tiers looking at 150 different individual pieces. I'm just curious if anybody knows of any kind of resource out there like this?

I want to start by saying our admin has been awesome this year. We've had breakfast and lunch catered/donated every day. Today, though, I won a door prize. The door prize is a goody bag of office supplies(post its, pens, etc) from State Farm, and on order to get the goody bag I had to take a picture with it wearing a goofy foam State Farm cowboy hat.

Why does everything have to be weird?