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Stations for Students - Level Up the Learning

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Create Interactive Learning with Choice Boards

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Create Interactive Learning with Choice Boards

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Ready to create interactive learning opportunities for students? Take advantage of choice boards. In this blog entry, we'll explore a few reasons why they are powerful and provide examples you can adapt. First, let's answer a simple question.

What are Choice Boards?

"Teachers will plan in a whole new way," says Kathi Kerznowski (). Wondering what choice boards are? Some define them as graphic organizers that provide students choices about how they learn. "Choice boards are awesome," tweets Stacey Noonan (@snoonan44)

"Choice boards are set up in a grid, generally with 9 squares," says Cassidy Reinken. She says, "You can require that students complete items from the choice board in a specific way." This can involve expecting students to choose choices in a row, one activity from every colored section or choose at random. You can vary level of difficulty. Cassidy makes four suggestions about choice boards:

1. Focus on a single concept or learning expectation.

2. Each activity square should relate to a different multiple intelligence.

3. Encourage students to complete three activities in a row.

4. Each square, with the exception of the interpersonal square, are individual activities.

Watch this short video how to teach with choice boards(updated video):

Why Choice Boards?

Here are ten reasons why choice boards engage learners. Choice boards:

1. Facilitate differentiated learning opportunities.

2. Can be used in any subject.

3. Provide different contexts for students and engage a variety of their senses. These approaches are supported by research (Source).

4. Offer learners of all ages choices in how they learn about a new topic or understand a familiar one.

5. Provide tiered levels of learning opportunities.

6. Serve as a contract between student and teacher.

7. Can be adapted for special education or individualized education plans (IEPs).

8. Increase student ownership.

9. Focus students on essential knowledge, skills, and strategies aligned to curricular goals.

10. Make it easy to manage "a single lesson, a week-long lesson, or even a month-long period of study" (Source).

Want to see some examples of choice boards or learning menus?

Where Can I Find Choice Board Examples?

Looking to get started with designing choice boards? Some choice board sources include:

Wondering how to design your own digital choice board? Read Caitlin Tucker's instructions.

Create Interactive Learning with Choice Boards

Begin with digital choice boards. Use tech tools like Google Docs, Microsoft Word Online, or Microsoft OneNote. Adapt these tools to create choice boards. All of them support tables, image insertion, and sharing with students. Make a digital choice board to facilitate access to activities, and be sure to include multimedia.

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Create Interactive Learning with a Choice Board

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Innovative teachers empower students through the use of the choice board, either in paper or digital format. Learn how and see examples in this blog.

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Explanation and examples of Choice Boards, Menus, & TIC-TAC-TOE

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Explanation and examples of Choice Boards, Menus, & TIC-TAC-TOE

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Really neat resource with so many examples!

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"A choice board is a graphic organizer that allows students to choose how they will learn a concept. The choice board below has nine squares. (There is no minimum or maximum, however nine seems to be a good number.) Inside each square is an activity. Students can choose one or several activities to complete. Choice boards can be organized so students need to finish one square before moving to the next, they can be random, or can be organized in a specific way. The level of difficulty of the activities can vary or stay consistent."

Tic-Tac-Toe Boards and Menus are two different types of choice boards.

"A menu offers students a way to make decisions about what they will do in order to meet class requirements. A menu could be for a single lesson, a week-long lesson, or even a month-long period of study. Once the teacher has decided on what the essential understandings and/or skills are, she/he can begin to create a menu."

"Tic-Tac-Toe choice boards give students the opportunity to participate in multiple tasks that allow them to practice skills they've learned in class or to demonstrate and extend their understanding of concepts. From the board, students either choose or are assigned three adjacent or diagonal tasks to complete.

Choice boards address student readiness, interest, or learning preferences. They are easily adapted to a subject area."

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Choice Boards, Menus, & Tic-Tac-Toe by Sarah Dillard

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How will you incorporate choice boards in your classroom? What type of support would you need to create choice boards for your classroom?

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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How do you deal with students who are off task during the learning time?  Removing their electronics makes more work for you!

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Using an Exploros (set to self-guided) is a good Level one or two activity--has a graded activity at the end.

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Students portfolios are automatically constructed. Teachers get a live window into classroom performance, and can adapt lessons to student needs in real time.

All stakeholders can observe progress against learning goals over time, whether districts are using self-published curriculum, Exploros OER curriculum, or an educational publishing partner's curriculum.

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Exploros | Engage Students, Map Learning Progress, Improve Outcomes

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Students portfolios are automatically constructed. Teachers get a live window into classroom performance, and can adapt lessons to student needs in real time. All stakeholders can observe progress against learning goals over time, whether districts are using self-published curriculum, Exploros OER curriculum, or an educational publishing partner's curriculum.

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Mr. Palmer created this assignment (assigned via Google Classroom with open due date so it is at the top of their Classwork) for students to take digital notes (words, images, links, etc) on each topic for end of semester review

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Rebekah-
This is NOT a leveled up board. Just this as a spring board for your content area and change the activities to be in levels of complexity.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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I love that there are levels of accountability built into these choice boards, and that students have to go through the "direct teach" part before they can move on to the more creative levels. I'm excited to see what the students create as they become self-directed learners.

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We will use the Fortnite template during the first part of our chemistry unit.  My next step is to find the best activities for each part of the choice board. 

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We will use the Fortnite template during the first part of our chemistry unit.  My next step is to find the best activities for each part of the choice board. 

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Time
Should you give them specific time frames to work through or allow them to work at their own pace?

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It's great that we can present the new material and the mini-lesson using this tool and the class becomes student-led. 

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It's great that we can present the new material and the mini-lesson using this tool and the class becomes student-led. 

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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Principles of the Constitution Mario Choice Board

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Principles of the Constitution Mario Choice Board

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160 Learning Menus and Choice Boards ideas in 2023 | choice boards, student choice, teaching

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Jul 18, 2023 - Learning menus and Choice Boards are incredibly effective ways to incorporate student choice and to differentiate learning. And with digital tools like G Suite for Education, it’s super easy to make menus interactive, digital, and more dynamic! On this board, you’ll find tons of tips…

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Tic tac toe (students have to make one) to start students at the basic level of composition with a musical phrase

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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My team plans to use a Choice Board after STAAR as we prepare students for 7th grade math. My understanding  is the more detailed the Choice Board rubrics that we give students (front-loading!), the easier the choices are to evaluate.

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I will incorporate choice boards as a checkpoint for progress and skill. I would like to team up with other orchestra directors to make sure we are aligning our standards. This would be particularly useful for solos, composition, and auditions.

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I think this would be a great opportunity to modify for struggling learners, ELLs.  The choice board could even be modified by a collab teacher to modify the complexity or reduce the number of questions for practice questions/vocab, while leaving the extension options intact.  

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I think this would be a great opportunity to modify for struggling learners, ELLs.  The choice board could even be modified by a collab teacher to modify the complexity or reduce the number of questions for practice questions/vocab, while leaving the extension options intact.  

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Looking forward to tweaking and modifying this to use in my science classroom! I know my team will be excited to create and divide and conquer these.

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I really liked the Fortnight option. We are creating a menu/choice activity for the few days after STAAR as a new idea for students to stay busy

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Music orcastras choice day music lab padlet

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Music orcastras choice day music lab padlet

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Music orcastras padlet