[Sidenote: Rewarding with Stars]
Miss Green tried the following method in her room. She wrote the pupils’
names on the blackboard in a conspicuous place. She told the children
that whenever she saw a child whisper during the week just beginning she
would erase his name.
At the beginning of the second week a star was placed after each name
remaining on the board. Those who had whispered the week before were
given another chance by again writing their names on the blackboard.
Each succeeding week a new star was given to those who had not yet
whispered and each week those who failed were given a new trial. When
any one had received six stars they were given a book.
Little was said about those who failed, but every week a story was told,
when the stars were given, showing the value of self-control, or the
disaster which followed lack of self-control. This plan practically
eliminated whispering.