If you want to increase student engagement and motivation for your assignments, consider providing more assignment choices. When students have a choice in what they have to do, they can become more committed.
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Choice sits at the heart of Universal Design for Learning. Ideally, you would want to provide a lot of choices for your assignments to include a choice of content and format. You would also want to have different choices for each learning objective.
Converting your entire course at one time can be exhausting. I recommend that you implement assignment choice one objective at a time. In some cases, you just need to tweak your rubric and the wording of the assignment itself.
In this episode, we will look at a list of things you should consider when creating assignment choice. We will also discuss a strategy for implementing assignment choice in your classroom.
Additional Reading
- ITC: 49 – How to Use the RAFT Strategy in Your Classroom
- Effect of Assignment Choice on Student Academic Performance in an Online Class (PDF)
- How to Use Choice Boards to Differentiate Learning
- Inclusive Approaches to Support Student Assignments During Times of Disruption
- Give students choice, where appropriate
- Addressing Student Choice in Assignment Submissions
- 10 Ways To Give Students More Control Of Their Education
- 11 Ways to Give Students Choices in Your Classroom
- How Do I Create Meaningful and Effective Assignments?
- Adding Choice to Assignment Options: A Few Course Design Considerations
- Implementing Student Choice within an Assignment
- How Providing Choice in Assignments Challenged my Assumptions About Students and Led to Meaningful Learning
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