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Interactive Notebooks

Interactive Notebooks. Janice Belcher. E Q’s:. H ow do I use interactive notebooks to engage learning in my classroom? How can interactive notebooks be used to integrate across the curriculum?. What are Interactive Notebooks?.

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Interactive Notebooks

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  1. Interactive Notebooks Janice Belcher

  2. EQ’s: • How do I use interactive notebooks to engage learning in my classroom? • How can interactive notebooks be used to integrate across the curriculum?

  3. What are Interactive Notebooks? • A note taking process that allows students to record information in a personal and meaningful way. • A way for students use teacher supplied notes to draw whatever illustration makes sense to them. • A way for students to personalize their work.

  4. This Process… • Can be challenging • Takes a bit of patience • Requires modeling, modeling, modeling • Must consistently be reinforced • Learning curve for both the teacher and the students

  5. The Payoff… • Students are able to organize their work • Uses reading strategies within a content area, such as science, social studies or math • Helps students distinguish between what they know and what they need to focus on

  6. …And Finally • Students make their own meaningful connections • It encourages pride in student work • It encourages cooperative learning • It appeals to multiple intelligences • The kids love it and learn so much!

  7. Why Interactive Notebooks? • Students use both their visual and linguistic intelligences. • Interactive Notebooks allow visual learners to use their best medium to explore and share ideas • Both types of learners will utilize their writing skills

  8. Interactive Notebooks Allow Students to… • Record information in an engaging way • Rehearse and retell information • Discuss and accept other’s ideas • Identify main ideas • Paraphrase • Transform written concepts into visuals • Become more independent thinkers

  9. Notebooks Help Students to Organize as They Learn… • Students record ideas about activities they engage in during a unit • A variety of organization techniques will be used • Assignments will be kept together in a regular place and in logical order

  10. Notebooks Become a Portfolio on Individual Learning… • Notebooks become a record of each student’s growth. • Teachers, students, and parents can review a student’s progress in writing, recording, thinking, and organization skills.

  11. In an Interactive Notebook, • Key ideas are underlined in color or highlighted • Arrows are used to show relationships between graphics and notes • Diagrams, sketches, cartoons, charts, graphic organizers, songs, really anything can be included

  12. How Do I Get Started? • Identify which subject and unit you want to begin with • Let students know what supplies are required • Make sure you have copies of notes for each student

  13. What Students Need… • The notebook-loose leaf paper in a three pronged folder, spiral notebook, or composition book • Pencils, regular and colored • Liquid glue or a glue stick • Scissors • Ruler • Teacher supplied notes • Grading expectations

  14. Components of Interactive Notebooks: • Personalized Page • Unit Title Page • Table of Contents • Standards • Unit EQ’s • Vocabulary Activities • Graphic Organizers • Foldables • Pockets

  15. Studying with Interactive Notebooks • Read the notes. Marking and highlighting key concepts helps them to focus on main ideas. • Paraphrasing helps them to process the information. • Studying the graphics help students to create pictures in their minds. This is a fundamental difference between good and poor readers.

  16. How is the Notebook graded? • Explain rubric to students • Conferencing-teacher and peer • Notebooks may be collected with or without notice, so…. students MUST have their notebook everyday.

  17. A Final Thought…. • There is no right or wrong way to use them • They can be used for any subject • You know your students!!

  18. Notebook Rubric • Notebook grades will be based on: • Thoroughness (Every page must be complete) • Organization / Neatness • Mark ups • Boxing in • Graphics

  19. Now Lets Get Started!!

  20. Resources • http://interactive-notebooks.wikispaces.com • http://upstagereview.org/ClassroomArticles/interactive%20notebook.pdf • Classroom Instruction That Works! by Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollack

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