Choice Boards are a great way to give your students some choice in how they will complete an assignment. Some of our students may excel at creating a Google Site, where another student would rather create a video or write a paper. Some may want to watch a video on the topic and others would prefer to read a chapter in a book. Choice Boards let us differentiate our assignments and engage our students at where they are. During these times when we are all teaching online, we as teachers need to create the best learning experiences possible that will keep our students attention, maintain a positive attitude, and keep them committed to doing their best job possible.
Here's a 3 part mini "course" that is entitled "The Ultimate Guide to Choice Boards and Learning Menus" by AJ Juliani. He talks about why Choice Boards are important, especially now, describes a step-by-step process for creating them, and gives examples of choice boards in action. This was written for K-12, but can easily be modified for your teaching here at MSU. It's easy to use Google Docs or Slides (or Word or PowerPoint) to create these menus for your students.
Choice boards are perfect for online learning, student choice, and differentiation. Here's what Kasey Bell of Shake Up Learning says about choice boards/learning menus:
What is a Choice Board?
IT’S ALL ABOUT CHOICE!
As many of you know, I've been teaching our students how to use Google and one of the things I had them do this semester was to come up with a way to use Hangouts Meet in their future classroom. The way I did this was to share a Google Slide deck with a directions slide and another slide that I called the student slide that was set up for them to add their name and their response. We sometimes call this collaboration slides. Here is the file that I shared and their responses:
