Student Choice 

To help encourage engagement in the classroom and allow students to have options with assignments. This also provides a choice for the student to attend in person or not. 

Giving students meaningful choices with what they are working on can boost engagement and motivation. This allows students to choose something in their area of interest or strength and meet each individuals learning needs. 

In math it is sometimes hard to get students to connect with the material and relate it to themselves. I believe that if you bring creativity into the classroom students can bring in their own interests and connect it to the content. Over the semester we learned many different functions and how to graph them. In order to provide a learning environment where the students would have a more meaningful assignment I created an over arching project to bring in all the chapters we have learned so far. In the assignment students were to represent the parent graph of each function we discussed throughout the semester in some visual representation. I wanted to see that students could clearly graph and state each parent function. They could choose any way they wanted to demonstrate their understanding. I showed and example of my expectations of creativity and listed a few ways they could make something. From there it was up to them and I just awaited the results. I got an overwhelming amount of excitement and variability from the students, including drawings, videos, sketches, etc. Below you can find a couple examples.

There are many ways you can provide your students choice in the classroom. This can be; seating arrangements, group members, ways of being assessed, the problems they do on tests or homework, and more. However you are able to provide choice effectively it is such a powerful tool to foster student engagement.