Interactive Notebooks - “Learning Means Processing the Knowledge”
- notebooks, folders for younger students
- students interacting with the content and other resources
- students direct companion to GANAG
- the students “learning space”
- record objectives, personalize information to insure understanding, work on thinking skills,
- not for recording information but for making the content “their own”
- helps teachers get to know how their students think through seeing how they create or re-create the content to have meaning
- copying teacher notes or taking verbatim notes on what the teacher is saying are the least effective ways for students to learn new knowledge --- they must make sense of it themselves through words and pictures EX. drawing an ecosystem can really tell you what the student knows about ecosystems versus copying a definition tells you nothing about what they are thinking
- walking around during a lesson and observing what students are putting in their notebook is a form of formative assessment because it tells you what they are thinking
Tips for preparing the notebook:
- allowing kids to personalize the notebook is key - front and unit tabs
- page numbering system
- table of contents
- a way to organize objective scoring sheets
- how to use visual representations of vocabulary words
- some teachers use the left for the “teacher/input” and the right for “student work/output” -- the teacher content and the application by the student is separated in this way
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