School "Rules"

Helping out in the classroom and learning classroom procedures that Mrs. Bennett enforces with her students. Some of them are basic school rules concerning hallway etiquette and library. When the students don't bring back one of their books, they cannot check out a new one. The students always get excited to get a new book they can pick out themselves. It is part of the school curriculum to read grade level books, so the kids are learning and growing with books they decide to read. When they don't follow the rules to bring their books back however, they don't get to pick out a new book, so then they are motivated to always bring them back.
One of the procedures I love that Mrs. Bennett uses in her classroom is something I refer to as "quiet as a mouse". She has a little mason jar candy dispenser that is filled with skittles, and there are two wooden mice on a lever at the bottom. When we all sit at the carpet, or it is time to be quiet and listen to instructions, she will pick a student and say "(Students Name) is being quiet as a mouse".  When she says this, the appropriate student knows that they get to go over to her desk, and move the lever over once, which will dispense a couple skittles. When I saw how the kids reacted with this procedure in the classroom, I started looking up little contraptions like this because I want to do something like this with my future students as well! When classroom procedures are implemented, it builds a great flow in the teacher, and the students gain a lot more respect for school. It has gotten me thinking a lot about the kind of impact I want to make as a teacher, and brainstorming procedures of my own.