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Angela Kulcsar shares three ways to give students choice in class: picking materials like pen colors, choosing where to work, and deciding the order of activities. Limited options help students feel in control without chaos.
Angela Kulcsar shares three ways to give students choice in class: picking materials like pen colors, choosing where to work, and deciding the order of activities. Limited options help students feel in control without chaos.
3 ways to utilize choice in your classroom. Choice is one of the most powerful strategies you can use in your class. Number 1, materials and manipulatives. This is the easiest one to use because who freaking cares? Who cares if they do the math worksheet in purple pen? I don't. Who cares if they want to count with colored blocks instead of colored cars? Who cares? Manipulatives, materials, that's choice number 1. Choice number 2, where they do the work. They want to do it on the floor, in the beanbag chair, in the desk, Within reason, we can give choice on seating and location of work. Number 3, the order of activities. Again, within reason, I like to give curated choices. Do you want to do your work? Do you want to first do your math and then do your reading? Do you want to do the odds or the evens? Do you want to do this activity or this activity first? So we can give choices with curated options that gives our kids that control, which is also sometimes a reinforcer.
