The trust marble jar is a powerful metaphor and tool used to teach how psychological safety is built slowly over time and based on small actions.
Marble jar activity.
Marbles are earned through small acts moments not grand gestures.
Every time you see a whole class.
When the class is caught making a marble jar choice the class gets a marble.
Trust is like a marble jar.
Your boss asks you how your mom s chemotherapy is going.
This helps symbolize that we all start off each day with a fresh start and a positive outlook.
Once the jar is filled the class earns a group reward.
It should never be used as a compliance tool to call out shame or humiliate students or to take marbles out as punishment.
A behavior marble jar is all about positive reinforcement so marbles go in and don t come back out until the end of the day.
Each time students exhibit a desired behavior the teacher places a marble in the jar.
The marble jar is a great way to do this.
Here are some ideas.
Use marbles to support the behaviors that need the most attention.
The goal is to fill the marble jar.
What do your friends do to earn marbles in your marble jar.
Explain to the class that this is your class marble jar.
Not the big moments the small moments.
Working quietly being good for a sub learning a new routine individual good behavior such as helping another student lining up quietly doing a good job with clean up being on task being ready to begin solving a class problem just because they are such a great group of kids.
For every marble that is in a jar people have earned your trust for that marble.
Examples out loud put a marble in the jar.
Studies show it is the very small moments where trust is built.
For preschoolers just getting up for the day could earn your child a few marbles.
With the marble jar teachers can frequently and easily reward desired behavior.
In the following clip brené brown describes the concept of trust and the marble jar.
Simply print off the poster and the marble jar.