Catch Me Doing It Cards
Seamless Positive Reinforcement in the Classroom
Teaching is a constant balancing act.
Every day, teachers are expected to deliver high-quality lessons, manage behaviour, support individual needs, and maintain a calm, purposeful learning environment — all at the same time. Too often, attention is drawn to what’s going wrong, interrupting learning and shifting focus away from the children who are doing exactly what they should be.
This approach flips that narrative.
Catch Me Doing It is built on a simple but powerful idea: notice the positive, reinforce it instantly, and keep teaching.
Using clear, visual charts alongside quick, unobtrusive rewards such as stickers or cards, teachers can acknowledge desired behaviours in real time — without stopping the flow of the lesson. A quiet pass-by, a subtle placement of a sticker, a moment of recognition… and the message is clear:
“I see you. You’re doing it right.”
There’s no disruption.
No loss of learning time.
No need to pause instruction.
Instead, this approach allows teachers to:
- Maintain pace and focus in their teaching
- Reinforce expectations consistently and positively
- Give children immediate, meaningful feedback
- Shift classroom culture towards recognition, not correction
For the child, the impact is powerful.
Positive behaviour is noticed.
Effort is valued.
Success is visible.
For the teacher, it’s seamless.
A strategy that works with teaching, not against it.
This Canva Template will set you up with a simple, effective visual system with bpards and cards that are ready to print or add to a template and create a theme around the child’s topic of interest.
Because sometimes, the most effective behaviour strategy is the one that doesn’t interrupt learning at all.
- Catch them doing it.
- Reinforce it.
- Keep teaching.
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