Teacher PD Choice Boards, Learning Menus and Playlists
In most of my technology training workshops there are teachers of different levels of digital competence and it's difficult to find activities that would suit individual needs of each participant. Not only our instruction needs to be differentiated but also teacher professional development shouldn't follow the one-size-doesn't-fit-all approach. So I came up with an idea to use choice boards for teacher PD. Choice boards are are used to differentiate instruction and boost student engagement because they allow students to decide how they will learn a concept and how they will show what they have learned. (Read more about using choice boards in the classroom below.) TIC-TAC-TOE CHOICE BOARD Choice boards are in fact graphic organizers that come in different shapes and sizes with Tic-Tac-Toe format being one of the most common. As in the popular game, the task is to choose and complete three activities in a row - horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Here's an e