TCH 401

Before you begin: Read A.J. Juliani's blog post "The Ultimate Guide to Choice Boards and Learning Menus". You can also view some choice boards here: Choice Boards for Teachers & Students

and here: Design Your Own Digital Choice Board. Spend some time critically examining digital tools that are marketed and used as assessment or reflection tools (Don't forget about the Resources page). Are the tools accessible to all learners? Are they helping teachers to actually measure learning goals? Do they meet students where they are? Are they challenging enough? How do they measure against Reshan Richards three questions to ask before offering assessment? Jot down tools that you want to spend some time working with. 

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In the moment: Think about content that you are interested in providing alternative ways for students to demonstrate competency. This can be any content, but you might consider going back to the Teacher as Designer, or Student-Driven Instruction challenges and building from there. Create a choice board using digital tools of your choice (these should be new to you tools) that will serve as a formative and/or summative assessment that accommodates learner needs, provides timely feedback, and informs instruction moving forward. Your choice board should have at minimum six unique choices, using six different digital tools.  

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Complete the challenge: Create a Teacher as Analyst post on your blog. Link your choice board. Then, compose a short reflection that explores:

1. What tools you picked and what criteria you used when choosing.  Are there tools that you considered but decided against using because they did not meet a piece of criteria. How many of the tools were new to you (ideally all of them would be new to you but at minimum a majority of the tools on the choice board should be new to you)? 

2. How the choice board helps you answer the three questions (1. Is this occurring at the moment of need? 2. Is there a caring human being behind this? 3. Is this value-added?) 

3. What is the learning goal? How does this choice board support students in achieving the learning goals? What data do you hope to gain? How will this drive instruction moving forward.