Student Benefits to a Choice-Based Classroom

Students independently search for images that help them with their project.

• Builds students’ creative capacity

• Promotes decision making

• Gives students an opportunity to respond to their own interests

• Gives students ownership over their art

• Improves fine motor skills

• Helps students understand cultures

• Builds speaking skills when they talk about their work

• Improves ability to explain artistic processes

• Develops 21st-Century skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, teamwork, and risk taking

• Promotes responsibility

• Helps students become innovators