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Notebooking. Mary Wren and Beth Thomas Great Falls Public Schools 2014 MEA Conference. Explain how notebooks can help students develop inquiry skills, enhance reading, writing, and science. Provide strategies for set-up, organization, entry types/uses and assessment of notebooks.
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Notebooking Mary Wren and Beth Thomas Great Falls Public Schools 2014 MEA Conference Explain how notebooks can help students develop inquiry skills, enhance reading, writing, and science. Provide strategies for set-up, organization, entry types/uses and assessment of notebooks. OBJECTIVES:
RATIONALE FOR NOTEBOOKING • Allows students to: • Process information, learn, and think in a more engaging way • Demonstrate what they have learned and provide a better opportunity for remembering information • Develop more confidence • Self-assess and reflect on their learning
RATIONALE cont…. • Notebooks also: • Enhance literacy through various forms of writing (procedural, narrative, descriptive and labeling) • Support differentiated learning • Provide a voice for students and increase achievement
Research Indicates… • Notebooks lead to increased student achievement in science, reading and writing (Amaral, Garrison, and Klentschy 2002; Klentschy, and Molina-DeLaTorre 2004)
One way to set up a notebook • Notebooking Protocols
Different types of notebooks • Cereal box • Paper bags • 70 page • Composition • 100 page with pockets
Tools for Notebooking • Glue sticks • Scissors • Rulers • Pockets • Colored pencils/highlighters • Sticky notes
Different Entry types • Pockets • Foldables • Reflections • Tables, Charts, Concept Maps • Graphs • Sketches • Goals • Daily Science
Other Ideas • Grade sheet • Rubrics • Partner clocks • Word walls • Unit organizers
Assessment • Needs to be continuous and students need to be involved! • Use a variety of types
Other Hints…. • Model how to use the notebook – can use document camera if available – being clear on expectations • Re-teach procedures – restating the question, how to make a heading, how to make an entry in the table of contents • Pencil only • Storage • We LOVE it!
Contact Information For Handouts Google: electriccityscience.com Click on “forms and documents” Beth Thomas Technology Coach beth_thomas@gfps.k12.mt.us 268-6029 Mary Wren Math Teacher Great Falls High mary_wren@gfps.k12.mt.us 268-6273