Student choice

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…

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!

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

9 Simple Ways to Provide 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!

Give Students Choices: Using Must Do, Choose Two Activities in Your Classroom. It is important that we give students choices in the classroom and the "Must Do, Choose Two" format is a great way to do this. This blog post shares the benefits of giving students choice. These are great for reading comprehension, ELA classes, and for early finishers.

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

Create your own reading choice boards for fiction and non-fiction

Check out this post to learn how to get students started in creating their own assessments, how to structure your class unit, how to grade this epic project, and a few tips and tricks to make it all go smoothly.

Educational purposes

Did you know that there are 15 states, including GA, FL and NC, that offer Special Education vouchers for children qualifying for an IEP? You can take these vouchers and apply them to private school costs. Before making a move, be sure the private school has the resources to accommodate your student. https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/05/17/527938057/for-families-with-special-needs-vouchers-bring-choices-not-guarantees

Student choice boards work well for fast finishers, as a center, when you have a sub, or when you want something engaging. Check here for ideas for your middle school classes! There are ideas for holidays, seasons, special months, language arts, social studies, and more!

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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.

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My 3rd grade ELA team has been doing amazing things lately! I've decided in order to post blogs about the great things we are doing--I must make my blogs short but meaningful! :) I am hoping that by doing this, I can blog more often! So here it goes... We are revamping the way we are doing our interventions for our kids (a blog for a different time.) Anyway, we needed some enrichment activities, without the dreaded question every week of..."what do we do now?" So we decided to create a…

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These brain breaks for primary school are perfect for those times in your classroom when your students need to get their wiggles out or give their brains a rest! With these brain break ideas, you can even provide some student choice for different fun brain break activities.