Benefits
Doesn’t require
excessive preparation
is a strategy that provides students with opportunities to independently select a provided option from two or more possibilities?
Instructional Choice
Application for turning in work
Teachers might offer students the choice of a task or activity by giving each student the option to either write a brief report or create a YouTube video lecture on the causes of the Civil War.
Preparing tasks in
Time
Builds teacher-student
Relationships
can implement instructional choice in their classrooms in a variety of ways, giving students options across and within activities
Educators
Material Application
Provide the choice of which materials to use to complete an assignment, such as using colored markers or crayons to complete the illustration.
Procedures for _____ and _____ different types of assignments
collecting and evaluating
Teaches self-determined
Behavior
Offering choice is a method for designing engaging instruction. It can positively influence students' feelings of self-determination, motivation, and satisfaction, leading them to participate longer and with more attention
Shogren
Setting Application
Students may opt to complete some assignments at home rather than at school or in a special seat in the classroom, such as at a standing work station.
clearly communicated
Expectations
Decision making
skills
Teachers have described to us any number of ways in which they provide choice to students, including
seating arrangements, homework problems, assessment problems, and ways of being assessed.