I loved the example were the math teacher gave the students the option of doing the even or the odds, by assigning twice as many problems.Then when she wanted them to do the whole page she gave them the option of writing their answers on the front or back.
Another valid point this chapter made, was if you give students choices they will be more excepting when they don't have a choice. I seen this when one of my teacher's I'm working with had a substitute teacher. The regular teacher never gives her student's a choices. As a result, when the sub came in the students made the choice that they were not going to be controlled today like they had been all year. There was more noise coming out of that room in one day then I had heard all year combined.
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