Differentiation Through Choice:Think-Tac-Toe

As a middle school teacher who teaches students with a wide variety of learning styles and ability levels, I am always looking for ways to work toward providing meaningful learning activitie... See More

As a middle school teacher who teaches students with a wide variety of learning styles and ability levels, I am always looking for ways to work toward providing meaningful learning activities in my science class. In this article, the authors describe a learning structure that they have developed to give students a choice in how they demonstrate their understanding of content knowledge. The authors used Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory to inform their choice of learning activities, and offer many good suggestions for how this tool might be implemented in a science classroom. However, they fall short when explaining how a teacher would be able to keep up with having so many varied activities occurring at once in the classroom, muchness how they would be able to objectively grade these assignments to meet the current standards-based learning environment that most of today's teachers must work within. I do feel this article offers a new strategy that could be employed occasionally in