Choice Board

Earlier in the semester in our methods grad course, we had an assignment to create a choice board for our content area. We had recently discussed diversity and multiple intelligences and this assignment was a type of assessment over those topics.

A choice board is a visual display of optional products the students can complete in order for you to assess their learning.  The products that are displayed on the choice board represent a variety of multiple intelligences.  

There are two ways to design the board.  (1) All products assess the same standard / content, and students choose one to complete.  (2) Product options assess different standards / content, and students choose more than one to complete (i.e., one from each standard).

I chose the first option because it was the easiest.

Here were our instructions:

• Create a Choice Board relating to content you teach in your class. 
• Choice Boards must be visually appealing – easy to read, neat, larger than a piece of paper (poster board or display board would work well.
• If assessment relates to one standard / content, you must have at least five product options; If multiple product options are displayed related to multiple standards / content, you must have at least three product options per standard.
• Each product option relating to the same standard must address a different multiple intelligence. 
• Any information students need to complete the products needs to be though through and included either on the Choice Board, or as a supplemental handout (which could be laid by the board).
• You will bring the finished Choice Board to class and explain the standard(s) and choices with your classmates.
  

At the time of the assignment I had just finished teaching parallel lines and transversals. My first year of teaching I had found an assignment where students had to draw their own city and place specific locations (library, school, park, etc) at specific angle pairs (corresponding to, at alternate interiors, etc). I took that idea and branched out from there to create product descriptions for other multiple intelligences.

The high school teachers decided actual poster/display board was a little elementary for us so I decided to make a clickable PowerPoint.

Here are the seven slides in case you just want to see. Ok, because I want you to look.

Here is the link if you want to use it.


If you do use it, please come back and share what happened!