Class Dojo:

An Emerging
Technology

By: Jaylin Abalos | EDU 214 | November 2022

The Description - What Is It?
➢ A free, positive classroom management program
➢ Has more than 35 million users - teachers, parents, and students
➢ Cross-Platform: accessed on a computer, tablet, smartphone, or
smartboard
➢ A computer based method of generating a Behavioral Management
Chart
○ students choose an avatar - cute monsters - to represent them
○ teachers award students with Dojo Points for positive behaviors
○ teachers take away Dojo Points for negative behaviors
○ parents are able to see how their kids are doing
○ teachers are able to see how the class, as a whole, are doing &
what needs to be changed
In the Classroom - students
❖ Dojo Points
➢ rewarded when a student is displaying positive
behavior
➢ taken away when a student is displaying
negative behavior

+4 for showing
❖ Attendance
teamwork!
➢ can be used for roll call
❖ Alerts parents when points are given or taken away
❖ Teachers can run a data analysis at the end of the
week
❖ Encourages students to model good behavior in the
classroom
The Pros of the Dojo
★ Cross-Platform Software
○ can be accessed from anywhere, on anything
★ Parents
○ alerted when points are given or taken
○ check in on their child’s behavior
★ Personalized
○ the positive behavior categories can be customized by the teacher
★ Encouraging
○ students would want to earn more points
○ teaches them that negative behaviors have consequences
★ Data
○ the entire class data is removed at the end of the year
○ teacher and software no longer has access to private information
The Cons of the Dojo
★ Little Training Involved
○ tutorial videos on how to set it up
○ it’s up in the air from there
○ “Class Dojo is only as good as the person who wields it” (Florell)
★ Inherent Bias
○ the students that the teachers are more focused on, most likely means
they will be the students receiving more points
○ the quiet, respectful students will most likely earn less points
○ it depends on the teacher; if they are willing to constantly look at
individual students and reward points frequently
○ biases will skew the data collected in the analysis
★ Sounds
○ there’s a happy ping sound when a student is awarded a point
○ there’s an unhappy ping sound when a student has a point taken away
○ can be a distraction & a public humiliation
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 References

Florell, D. (2015). Just A Click Away.Vol. 43, Iss. 7, Bethesda: National Association of School Psychologists. Retrieved from
http://ezproxy.library.csn.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/other-sources/just-click-away/docview/1785270554/se-2

Krach, S. K., McCreery, M. P., & Rimel, H. (2017). Examining teachers' behavioral management charts: A comparison of class dojo and
paper-pencil methods. Contemporary School Psychology, 21(3), 267-275. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s40688-016-0111-0