Choice Boards

Providing Student Choice Assignments

Choice Boards are graphic Differentiated Learning

organizers that allow students
to choose how they will learn a
concept or what end product to
create. Like a tic tac toe board,
inside each square is an
assignment choice created by
the teacher. The student then
chooses which activity to
complete.
for Students with:
● Learning Disabilities
● Emotional Disturbance
● ADHD
● English Language
Learners
● Gifted and Talented

Steps to Create a Choice Board:

1. Identify core concept and what you want students to
be able to know and do
2. Determine students interests, learning styles and
needs in your classroom
3. Design choice board (typically 9 squares) with
assignments based on student interests, learning
styles and needs
4. Students are assigned how many squares from the
board they must complete
5. Boards can be individualized for students or ability
groups
Why?
Using Choice Boards in an inclusion classroom will empower all
students to become more self directed learners. By allowing for
choice, students will gravitate towards the activities of higher
interest to them and therefore increase on task time and decrease
disruptive class behaviors. Choices that provide multiple
modalities of learning will minimize educational disabilities that
students may have, and instead focus on the content learned and
how to demonstrate the knowledge in an appropriate product.

Examples:

Resources:
Chang, K. c. (2012). Fostering Learner Autonomy Through Empowering Students in EFL Writing. English Teaching &
Learning, 36(3), 39-84.

Dotger, S., & Causton-Theoharis, J. (2010). Differentiation through Choice: Using a Think-Tac-Toe for Science Content.
Science Scope, 33(6), 18-23.

Kern, L., & State, T. M. (2009). Incorporating Choice and Preferred Activities into Classwide Instruction. Beyond Behavior,
18(2), 3-11.

Servilio, K. L. (2009). You Get to Choose! Motivating Students to Read through Differentiated Instruction. TEACHING
Exceptional Children Plus, 5(5).

Spencer, S. s. (2011). Universal Design for Learning: Assistance for Teachers in Today's Inclusive Classrooms.
Interdisciplinary Journal Of Teaching & Learning, 1(1), 10-22.