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Interactive Student Notebooks . A Creative Option for Notes. Why the Interactive Notebook? . Students become active learners and take ownership of the material presented in class or through homework Students use their visual and verbal skills as they react to information
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Interactive Student Notebooks A Creative Option for Notes
Why the Interactive Notebook? • Students become active learners and take ownership of the material presented in class or through homework • Students use their visual and verbal skills as they react to information • Build organization skills • Acts as a portfolio of student work
A Spiral Notebook? Really? • Novelty • Everything is taped in … more secure • Much higher success rate than with binders with my students • Ok… so what kind?? • 3 or 5 subject • Vinyl cover • Offer extra points for donated notebooks
How do I get started? • Need very clear guidelines/expectations • http://teachergenius.teachtci.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Notebook-Guidelines-Secondary.pdf • Grading system • Stamps • Parent Review w/ Feedback • Self-evaluation • Significant role in quarterly average
Cover • Ownership = Pride = Quality (usually) • Basic Information • Name • Class Period • Teacher’s Name • Images about our class – preview opportunity • Images about them • Page protector
Table of Contents • Running list of all assignments and activities • Save first 4 or 5 pages for Table of Contents • Format Suggestion: Page #, Title of Page, Date & Type of Grade
Helpful Hints • Have students number ahead… warn them to double check that they haven’t skipped any pages • “Containment Rule”… each page is exactly that- ONE (side of a) page. Nothing “spills over”. Use of tape to make a page that folds out for things that won’t all fit on one page. Creativity at it’s best in many cases here!
TCI Progression • Preview • Activate prior knowledge, introduce key ideas or create an emotional connection to event/information to come • Notes/Information • Gaining information through notes, handouts, etc… • Processing • Activity that requires students to use notes/information from lesson and interact with it to create “product”
Right Side v. Left Side • Start with page #1 on the back of last Table of Contents page… so odds are on the left and evens are on the right • Typical rule of thumb- Right side is teacher “driven” or provided; Left side is student created- evidence of thought and processing of information given during class or homework, finding and making connections
Right Side- Input • Home of “Testable” information • Common set of info that all students must know • Class notes • Discussion Notes • Reading Handouts • Excellent opportunity for teacher to model graphic thinking
Left Side- Output • Students work out an understanding of information presented to them • Illustrations • Diagrams • Flow charts • Poetry • Colors • Cartoons • Written response • Students must DO something with information before they internalize it • Use of various learning styles
Variation on strict separation • Preview, Process & Respond on the left • Information on the Right as often as possible
Unit Introduction Pages • Excellent “Preview” activity • Suggested Requirements- Rule of 5 • Title big enough to see in the first 5 nanoseconds • 5 Images • 5 words or phrases- MUST be different from images (not simply labels) • At LEAST 5 colors used in the design
LOST and Found • What to do??? • Not common- pride, ownership & knowledge that ISN is a big part of their grade keeps them close to home • Need for a classroom version • Table of Contents • Right Side • Lost = student’s responsibility to replace and recreate starting at last graded section
Ideas for Interactive Notebooks • Make connections outside classroom • Mind notes • Mosaics of words and images • Perspective pieces • Pictowords • Political Cartoons • Postcards • Poster • Report Card • Sensory Figures • Spectrums • T-Chart for comparisons • Venn Diagrams • “What If” Statements • Advertisements • Annotated Maps • Annotated Illustrations • Book/CD Cover • Caricatures • Eulogies • Facial Expressions • Flow Charts • Forms of Poetry • Historical Journal (POV) • Illustrated Dictionary Entries • Illustrated Outlines, Proverbs, Timelines • Invitations
Tips for Quality • Allow students to use their notebooks on open note quizzes • Spot check for small measures randomly (Table of Contents up-to-date, page numbers visible on pages, “Shake” test) • Set aside time for notebook maintenance- everyday as warm-up or periodically as papers ready for return