Description
Differentiation is a vital part of creating lessons that help all students grow, but teachers can get overwhelmed when they think they have to create an individualized lesson plan for each student. Thankfully, there are strategies you can use to differentiate your classroom that require little time and effort. One of them is creating a choice board.
Educator Jen Molitor says that by using a choice board to offer your students a variety of exercises and activities to complete, you are helping differentiate your lessons in a way that benefits each student.
After completing this one-hour course, you’ll be able to:
- Identify key components in the design and creation of a purposeful choice board
- Determine the purpose of your choice board
- Design and create a choice board that you can start using in your classroom today
ODE Teacher competency: a, b
NAGC Teacher Preparation Standard: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
Click here for a leader’s guide created by the Ohio Association for the Gifted and Talented.
Kristyna – MECHANICSBURG EXEMPTED VILLAGE (verified owner) –
This did not help me at all. It tells you why to create a choice board a little, but the majority is the speaker telling stories not related. This could have been a 10 minute video.
Brenda – RIDGEWOOD LOCAL (verified owner) –
Good information on creating choice boards.
Maria – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Picked up new ideas for choice boards which is something I don’t use, but feel like could turn up my instruction a notch or two.
Stacey – EVERMAN ISD (verified owner) –
It was helpful.
La’Nitra – EVERMAN ISD (verified owner) –
This was very engaging. I loved my learning.
Shea – EVERMAN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Brittni – EVERMAN ISD (verified owner) –
Course was easy to follow along. I had heard about choice boards before but Jen Molitor made them more clear and purposeful. Great examples were shared. I would highly recommend this course.
Kyle – NEW LEXINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
The attached grids are very helpful.
Samantha – CLEAR CREEK ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Jenny – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I think this was a good course, but it could be shorter. There was a lot of extra story-telling that could be cut out. More examples, explanations, and templates would be better to accompany the course as well.
Neftali – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great easy to follow PD. I really like that you provided examples.
Patricia – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Megan – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
I did enjoy this course
Allison – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
This was great and a great way to apply to the classroom.
Travis – FORT RECOVERY LOCAL (verified owner) –
I thought this class did a nice job giving several examples to implement into your classroom. It also does a nice job with giving you the tools needed to create a choice board.
Elias – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
Great workshop that gave great examples that can be utilized immediately in the classroom.
Anese – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This is a very goo course that explains the importance of choice boards. I would like to see more examples of choice boards for the lower grades that could be used in language arts and the core subject areas. It would be nice to be directed to some resources in Spanish or English that has ready made choice that could be modified or change to fit our students,
Leticia – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
It is a very engaging course.
Tiffany – BETHEL LOCAL (verified owner) –
I love the option of choice boards and appreciate the examples
Sara – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting
Melinda – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative and offered lots of examples
Dustin – SANDUSKY CITY (verified owner) –
looking forward to using this information to implement choice boards more often in future lesson planning.
Julie – SANDUSKY CITY (verified owner) –
I have always wanted to become more educated and better at creating and using choice boards. This course was a great asset in providing the important information needed to get started doing so.
Tanya – CENTERBURG LOCAL (verified owner) –
This is by far the best gifted training I have had in a long time. It was short, meaningful, and offered easy ways to implement into math! Much of the training I have been to focuses on Language Arts, History, Science and lower level grades for math. This training addressed ways to enrich high school level mathematics.
George – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
Very good course to understand Differentiation.
Lawrence – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Michael – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I knew some information about choice boards already, but this course taught me even more so how I can utilize this tool effectively in my classroom.
Alyssa – HPS – WEST TX (verified owner) –
It was awesome!
Maria – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I found this insightful. Good way to continue extentions.
Stacey – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome and useful
Alan – SANDUSKY CITY (verified owner) –
Great advice on how to implement a choice board!
Deborah – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Good info
Wes – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
Interesting
Alicia – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the information given on Choice Boards
Paulino – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This is a very valuable course that offers many ideas on how to offer different levels of students an opportunity to understand concepts through a variety of choices.
Gabriela – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
It was a great learning experience. Choice boards are not typically used in our class, but might show up this semester now.
ANTONIA – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great presentation on how to create choice boards for any subject at any grade level.
Elsa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
So awesome! Thanks for breaking it down so effectively!
Carmen – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful, and has wonderful suggestions for strategies and motivations.
Maria – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Four star rating. Although, the examples were great I would like a choice board provided to at least start with for my particular grade level so that at least I have a starter. Not just a blank template.
Melissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informational.
Victoria – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Great info about choice boards and how to make them.
Cecily – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Good course with examples.
Denise – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I was able to get very good ideas for activities with the choice boards.
Renee – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
It was a great course to take in my opinion because menus or choice boards are definitely thriving right now, and a great way to achieve many things in a classroom. They are for every student which is always a blessing.
Juliana – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Definitely clarified what choice boards are and differentiation.
Carrie – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
This was the only course so far this year that kept me engaged and provided real examples I can take back to my classroom. Thank you!
Kristina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I love the choice boards!
Adriana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Sylvia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Good examples