Click counters are a simple way to track behavior frequency in classrooms. They're silent, portable, and you can use different colors to monitor multiple behaviors at once. A paraprofessional used three color-coded counters to track replacement behaviors and negative behaviors throughout the day, then transferred the counts to a data sheet.
When tracking behavior data with frequency count, my absolute favorite way to do this is by using click counters or finger counters. You can purchase these on Amazon. They're relatively inexpensive. Behaviors happen anywhere, right? We can't always have the data sheet ready. We have to be ready to go. We can carry this with us really easily. You can put this in your pocket, on your clipboard, on your belt loop, and have it ready that every time a behavior happens, You're tracking it. If you want, you can get ones in multiple colors and be tracking multiple behaviors at once. I worked with a one-on-one paraprofessional who literally had a setup like this. She had 3 different click counter, click counters that she kept on her lanyard. One was for the replacement behavior. There was one negative behavior and a different negative behavior. She wrote on the side which one was which, and she just took data all day. It was so impressive. She would click every time one of those happened, and then at the end of the day or at different intervals, she would go over to the data sheet and track it in the data sheet. Let's say this was aggression. She would go to the data sheet. And say, okay, today there are 4 instances of aggression and 1 instance of running, and there were 5 replacement behaviors. She would write that down, reset for the next day. Now, these finger counters are really great, and I've actually honestly been gravitating towards these a lot more recently because they're so small, especially if you work in an inclusion setting and you're trying to be like a little sneaky taking data. No one could even know that these were there, right? I also like these because there's no noise. So there's no reactivity to data. If you have students that are very sensitive to being taken data on, you can just click and no one even knows. I think these are great if you're teaching a lesson and you're trying to track, you know, out of seat or off task or something really simple like that— shouting out, swearing. You could track aggression from across the room while you are teaching. And again, you then take this to the data sheet and write it down there. When I bought my set, it came with these rhinestone ones. I mean, how cute is that? Again, you can just simply put this on your lanyard, on your whatever, you know, belt loop, anything that's easy to have with you, and then be collecting data all day long.
