What are Choice Boards & how are teachers using them in the classroom?

• Choice boards are a new learning tool being used in the classroom. 

• They involve greater student autonomy in the classroom because students can pick a handful of activities that are meaningful to them. When students feel control over their learning they tend to be more engaged because they chose activities that they want to do.

FIRST ... choose activities that will enhance the student's understanding of the novel

• One requirement of this assignment was that the activities we created covered different subject areas. I think that the greatest way to enhance a student's learning is by connecting media across subject areas because it makes students think outside the box. Even though this choice board revolves around a graphic novel it is interesting to try to connect STEM-based lessons

SECOND ... creating activities that incorporate multi-modal and PBL

• We wanted to make sure that students had different ways than traditional worksheets to show their learning. Some ways we incorporated different modes of learning were creating videos, inserting images into assignments, and creating physical creations. 

These different modes are important because students learn in different ways! What works well for one student might not resonate with another. So giving the students the option to draw, create videos, or do math problems can play to different strengths. 

• All of these activities involve more than just the novel to complete it fully. For example, the Theather Scavenger hunt involves students taking a deep dive into theater history and learning more about Shakespeare.