Student choice

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Effective classroom management and student choice go hand in hand. Read for three easy ways to start giving student choice in the classroom!

Choice boards are the perfect way to foster student independence and buy-in to what you are teaching in your classroom! It’s so important for students to take responsibility for their education. Here I am sharing some of my favorite ideas on how to use choice menus in your elementary classroom. These are great for centers, stations, independent work, and MORE!

I love providing student choice in the classroom! It's my biggest classroom management secret - and I'm going to share my tips with you! Whether you are a first year teacher or an experienced teacher, you will find easy, actionable suggestions for giving students choice in the classroom. These tips are specifically geared toward K-2 students and include choices in seating, morning work, and reading and writing tasks. Empower and engage your students with choices throughout the day!

Visionary Teaching is pleased to offer these awesome strategies for offering students more choices. Students who have some choice in how they learn, how they are engaged, and how they are assessed, work longer, work harder, and learn more.

When my daughters were young, they usually didn’t want to go to bed at their bedtime. To give them choice, I wouldn’t ask them if they wanted to go or ask them what time they wanted to go to bed. I would ask them, “Do you want to walk to bed or do you want to be carried to bed?” The simple analogy relates to the opportunity for choice that we need to give to students in the classroom. It’s no longer enough to simply say, “Do as I say.” While students can’t make a choice of IF they want to…

Have you considered using student choice boards in ELA assessments? Check out this blog post for ideas to implement it! #sotospeak #ELA #LanguageArts #ELAteachers #teachertribe #teacherideas

Give your students choices and watch their engagement soar. Click to find out how.

9 Simple Ways to Provide Choice in the Classroom-- Add more choices today!

The number one way to teach our students autonomy and to keep them engaged is by establishing student choice in the classroom to demonstrate learning.

As you create learning experiences for students, what kinds of choices can they make? You might have a series of writing prompts for them to choose from. Or you might have a few different ways for them to respond and share their learning. In an inclusive classroom, you can give students choices on what learning activities they try while checking for understanding at the same time. Come learn how you can use technology to support writers and creators in the classroom! #sponsored

Wondering how to use choice boards in the classroom? Learn how to come up with choice board ideas and activities for high school, middle school, all the way to Kindergarten. Choice boards are great for early finisher activiteis for reading intervention, math, and even for early finisher art activities. Digital choice board templates are easy to custmoize and already designed. Just type in your student activities. Tic Tac Toe, Bingo Boards and even video game template backgrounds are…

Choice is the unspoken 5th "C" of digital learning. It fits right alongside Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Creativity, and Communication.

I have been a “busy bee” today! I have printed and laminated some visual supports to give to the classroom teachers who will be teaching my students this fall. Here’s one that I …

Choice boards! Need some creative ideas as tasks for students who finish their work early? How about some creative ideas for students who are working from home? Maybe you just need a day of free choice choosing activities. The Choice boards are a great option for student agency and for students to choose their own activities to do while continuing to learn. Included in this resource is: The file is a zip document as each resource comes individually as a PDF

This is what it’s all about! Standards Based Brochures provide student choice while spiral reviewing your standards! . . These Standards…

Student Choice in the Classroom: What & How. Elevate student voice and student engagement with choice boards. How to offer student choice in what and how they learn or are assessed. Check out the blog post by Lindsay Lyons for Time for Teachership. Scroll down to get 1 of my #teacherfreebies. For more instructional strategies & free resources, sign up for weekly emails at bit.ly/letterfromlindsay

Establishing clear expectations and a consistent reward system for your students is so important for supporting positive classroom behaviors. Now, add in the task of doing this in a virtual classroom setting and this can be challenging! Learn more about my favorite strategies and tips for virtual classroom expectations and incentives! You can set high expectations and create a fun, engaging classroom environment through student choices and virtual rewards that your students will LOVE!

Using student self assessment is powerful in motivating students to take ownership of their learning. This blog post offers six ideas to promote student self evaluation in your upper elementary classroom. Click to read about using levels of understanding posters, a student check in google form, and templates for student reflection for conferences. You'll even learn about having them write their own student report card!

Four fast-finisher activities for students who finish an assignment early! The task cards have ELA, science, math, and creative activities. Promote student choice by letting them choose which activity they want to complete. All you have to do is print the task cards and put them on a binder ring! All of the hard work is already done for you.