You know what I’m talking about, right? Those color-coded charts, using cards or clothes pins or Popsicle sticks to represent each child in the class. It’s high time behavior charts themselves ...

Star charts and color cards create a negative classroom environment. Teachers need to toss these systems and focus on building relationships.

Bright colors do affect how students act in the classroom. I believe it is because brighter colors make students think more positively, making them concentrate better and do their work better.

Teachers have little or no control over each of these factors. A second problem with behavior charts is that they teach children to focus on the chart, not on the precipitating behavior.