Not our teachers’ notebooks : Empowering students with work-in progress notebooks

1. Not our teachers’ notebooks: Empowering students with work-in progress notebooks

2. The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.Robert Maynard Hutchins

3. Binders • Binders • Keep all graded papers • Organize returned papers in categories • Grade notebook each 6 weeks, then clean it out • Repeat the next 6 weeks • Throw everything away at the end of the year

4. Works-in-progress notebooks • 3 sections • 3 Table of contents • Organized as work is done • Nothing ever gets thrown out without discussion and thought • Student can see progress or repetitive problems • A resource students can return to over and over • Student ownership of their work and the information they acquire

5. For ExampleThen Today • Memorization • Repetitive drills • Worksheets • Occasional typed assignment • Teacher talks- students listen • Knew what jobs would be available • Active engagement • Problem solving and using skills within varying contexts • Frequent technology applications: ipads, laptops, iphones, digital media, social media, apps for anything • Desire for instant information • Abundant resources to know, use, and navigate • Future careers changing by the minute and no one knows what they will be asked to do

6. Our sections • Notes • Written notes • Powerpoint notes • Brochure notes • Graphic organizer notes • Foldables • Flip charts

7. Our sections • Writing • Prewriting • Writing stems • Truisms • Rough drafts • Final drafts • Journals ----reading and writing

8. Our sections • Work • Assignments • Practice work • Questions

9. Table of Contents • Each section has its own Table of Contents • Marked by cut right hand corner and colored • Student’s responsibility to update it regularly • Easy access to the variety of information they have been presented with • Useful organizational strategy • Make students treat notebook more professionally

10. Table of Contents Page Content Date

11. Ideas • Character sketches 3 x 5 Index card

13. Create the character: • Rules: • They can only use what they can prove with text evidence • Text evidence should be quoted on the back in the correct area of the body • Use the text evidence you have collected to answer short answer questions about characterization

14. Flipcharts • 3 x 5 index cards cut in half • Starting at bottom, layer them so a flip box is available on each card • Tape the top of each • Write key word on flip portion and then lift and include definitions, examples, pictures, … • Uses: vocab lists, suffix, prefixes, literary terms, grammar terms, countries organized by continent, etc…

15. Other ideas • Baggie books • Pie charts with covered wheel • Brochures with fill-in-the blank notes • Foldable booklets (with or without index cards)

16. Pockets • Half triangle fold • “seat belt” • Taped on pocket • Envelope pockets

17. Can I add to my notebook next year? Hey did you notice this is the first time I wrote a whole two pages? Can I keep my notebook at the end of the year? Why is my notebook not there???? You mean we only need a notebook? Can I take it home to finish my essay? Can I take it to show my parents? A comprehensive test??? Oh, but we can use our notebooks? Whew, I have everything then. It helps me keep all my stuff together. I remember how we did that and mine is right here. Can I show her? Yes, I have that assignment. See it’s on my page 12.