Novelty and Variety
DESIGN QUALITIES

Naperville Community Unit School
District 203

Choice

Description/Indicators/Questions

Student develops a process for work completion.

How does the work allow for creativity and choice?
How can students and teachers describe choices in the product, performance, or exhibitions to which this work will lead?
Numerous opportunities exist for students to select the nature of performance.

How does the work allow for creativity and choice?
In what ways are students provided optimum choices with regard to the product to be produced or the nature of the performance presented?

Wide range of technology is available for student use, and students are encouraged to use all of these at some point in time.

What materials and supplies do the students use?
What opportunities are provided for students, which vary their work, time, and materials?
In what ways do students have access to more than one type of instructional resource/tool?
What resources and tools are being provided and used by the students?

Effort is made to make student participation invitational and voluntary as opposed to compulsory and coerced.

How do students demonstrate enthusiasm, interest, and involvement (vs. compliance) with regard to this work? Are they doing the work because they want to or have to?
In what ways do students find the work interesting enough that they would do it voluntarily?
How do students persist with the work and extend their learning?

Allow students to process at a higher level, i.e., critical thinking.

What levels of thinking are involved in doing this work?
Students are provided with multiple choices directly related to content and process.

How do students use content from other disciplines in their work
Students are provided with opportunities to lead and facilitate discussions and reflection that generates more ideas and questions.

What levels of thinking are involved in doing this work?

Naperville Community Unit School District #203
September 27, 2001