Student Choice
Overview
When students are able to make choices about their learning and participate in instructional decisions, they are more engaged and intrinsically motivated to learn.
Example: Use This Strategy In in the Classroom
Design It into Your Product
Use It in the Classroom
Watch how this elementary school teacher builds in student choice into her literacy rotations. By allowing students to choose how they use their instructional time, they are able to take ownership of their learning and maintain Motivation to complete the tasks.
Design It into Your Product
Watch how Epic! gives learners the freedom to choose what books they read from their digital library. By offering choice in what they read and how they read, learners maintain engagement and develop a greater love for reading.
Learn More
- Explore the Motivation & Autonomy subtopic on Digital Promise’s Research Map.
- Explore the Student Motivation subtopic on Digital Promise’s Research Map.
Additional Resources
Additional examples, research, and professional development. These resources are possible representations of this strategy, not endorsements.
Factors Supported by this Strategy
More Active Learning Strategies
Students activate more cognitive processes by exploring and representing their understandings in visual form.
Visiting places connected to classroom learning provides opportunities to deepen understanding through firsthand experiences.
Free play supports learner interests and allows more complex social interactions to develop.
Reading aloud helps students to hear and practice reading and fluency skills.
Pretending allows students to step back from a problem or task and think about it from multiple angles.
Response devices boost engagement by encouraging all students to answer every question.
Actively manipulating word parts deepens a student's understanding of the way words are formed.
