Student choice

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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!

This post is a guest post by Mrs. T of The Musings of Mrs. T. You can find out more information about the author at the end of the post. ...

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

As humans, we need some power and we need some freedom. Battles and boredom are often a result of students not feeling that they have power and freedom.

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…

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Autonomy: the power to be independent and free; freedom from external control or influence.

teachers who use student choice menus can help foster student choice in the classroom in many ways. Here's how!