Interactive Notebook Class

1. Interactive Notebook Class Katie Bryant

2. Introduction

3. Purpose • Provide opportunities for authentic assessment • Applies to Brain-based learning • Creates a portfolio-type artifact • Works as formative assessment tool • Platform for feedback • Focuses on mastery

4. Advantages • Teachers are able to incorporate current lessons and materials into the IN to increase student motivation and achievement. • Students take the notes and do something with the information the result is more creative, independent thinkers with a deeper understanding of content • Students become engaged in the content • Each notebook is a unique version of the content • Teachers can used to determine misconceptions and mastery

5. Set Up • Right side of notebook is teacher input • Left side of notebook is where students demonstrate learning. • Teachers MUST have their own interactive notebook, or failure is assured. • Teachers must model EVERYTHING for the students or failure is assured.

6. Set up

7. Set-Up

13. Brain Based Learning • IN are analogous to an information-processing model. • This includes • Selective attention • Encoding • Placement of information in short term memory • Storage in long term memory for retrieval • Left hand assignments are used to assess student understanding

19. Brain Based Learning Continued • Right side of notebook is for teacher information • Left side of notebook puts info in to student words, diagrams, drawing etc… • This helps the brain by making connections between what’s experience (learned) and what the information means to the learner • Content is moved into long term memory by rehearsing the information • IN are organizational tools for teachers and students

20. Making Connections

21. Brain Based Continued • Brain divided into hemispheres • Right side intuitive, creative • Left side logical, analytical, factual and rational • IN uses both the left and right sides of the brain together to help sort, categorize and implement new knowledge and creativity

23. More Brain Based • Left hand assignments also help learning by helping students to connect information to what the students already know. • Students are able to pay attention for short periods of time allowing for breaks by gluing or getting materials allows for movement which reawakens the brain

25. Assessment • Informally check often! • Give feedback! • Allow students to re-work, complete or fix • Formally grade less often (weekly or at a set number of entries)

27. Learning Styles • Three basic learning styles: • Auditory (hearing the notes) • Visual (drawing pictures and writing notes) • Kinesthetic doing labs and group work

28. LHA and Multiple Intelligences • Verbal/linguistic: Students can write about what they’ve learned, compare and contrast for example • Logical/Mathematical: create a graph, display • Visual/spatial: picture • Musical/rhythmic: write a poem, rap or song about • Interpersonal: write a letter explaining to someone about what you’ve learned in class • Intrapersonal: write about what you learned and what it means to you • Naturalistic: explain how the content relates to the natural world

29. Authentic and Alternative Assessment

30. Authentic/Alternative Assessment

31. Authentic and Alternative Assessment

32. More Examples!

33. Example

34. Portfolio or Artifact? • The portfolioness of it all! • Shows Growth • Demonstrates Mastery!

35. Students are Teachers too • Student creativity is amazing • Interactive Notebooks allow for us to learn from students • Get new examples • Realize student misconceptions • See student sense of humor

36. What the Students Say? • Feeling of accomplishment • Like the left hand assignments • Better than worksheets • Helps me stay organized!

37. Students with Disabilities • Print Notes • Brain storm ideas • Allow computer usage for text and graphics • Allow extra time

38. Gifted and Talented • Enrichment • Different • Creativity

39. But…but… • My students will lose them • No they won’t, because it’s theirs, they have a connection to it, its not a worksheet its not a book, its theirs and they won’t lose it • My students will not be able to stay on the pages because they write so big! • Have one notebook for extra paper and give them a sheet and have them tape it in.

40. But…but..continued • I don’t have time to cut and paste! • Then don’t, many teachers at my school just have the kids write notes and do left hand assignments. • My kids can’t do this! • When you say your kids can’t do it, what you are really saying is you can’t or do not want to do it, then don’t its just an idea, a tool for the box.

41. Questions?

42. Links to Help! • Social Science - This is a link to examples of social science entries This site has many real examples of entries that can be used for social science • http://www.nonags.org/members/dasaunders/activities/units/unit2a.htm • Instructions on Different Types of Left Hand Assignments from Mrs. Gannon These are for social science but you can adapt them for any content. • http://www.teacherweb.com/SC/LadysIslandMiddleSchool/Gannon/FAQ4.stm#q13 Science - Interactive Notebook Power Point for Science   • http://www.slideshare.net/eboni.dubose/science-interactive-notebook Social Studies- Interactive Notebook Power Point Social Studies I like this one because it has examples. • http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/fairfield/saunders_d/batcave/interactive+notebook.ppt Math - Interactive Math Notebook Power Point This is a power point about math notebooks • http://www.classwithsanders.com/powerpoints/MISN_intro_for_web.ppt

43. References • Caine, R., & Caine, G. (October, 1990). Understanding a Brain-Based Approached to Learning and Teaching. Educational Leadership pp. 66-70. • Guskey, T. (2003, February). Assessment Learning. Education Leadership , pp. 6-11. • Kohn, A. (1999, March). Degrading to De-Grading. Assessment and Evaluation , pp. 38-43.