Q & A: Practise Work Conundrum

Today, I desire to reply a duad of questions I received inward my e-mail. I promise that my reply tin order the axe aid to a greater extent than than simply the instructor who sent inward the question. Since I'm hoping this volition top away a regular thing on the blog, I fifty-fifty made a cute moving painting for these posts. :)

By the way, I'm terrible at replying to e-mails amongst questions. Hopefully this volition aid me acquire improve at answering these types of e-mails.

The Question

Right forthwith I role the textbook to order my students do problems that they write over inward their notes as well as tin order the axe reference dorsum to after how they did something (for a quiz, test, etc.). On your spider web log y'all cite whiteboards which I intend are great, but the travel that students did is erased as well as lost. So:

1) How produce y'all order your students do problems (where produce y'all acquire them from, how produce y'all introduce them)?

2) Do y'all guide maintain students write downwards their working out of do problems inward their INBs or produce y'all uncovering that it's non necessary?

My Answer

This is ane agency inward which my approach to interactive notebooks is changing. When I get-go started doing interactive notebooks amongst my students, I was really controlling of what went on each page. I wanted my students to guide maintain notebooks that were identical to mine. We would produce a few problems inward our notebooks, but the bulk of our do happened on private white boards. Several of my students started bespeak if they could include some of the whiteboard problems inward their notebooks. I tried to making upward a modified page numbering organisation to conform this. If nosotros took notes on page seven as well as students wanted to accept extra notes, I would guide maintain them publish these extra pages equally 7B, 7C, etc. This was a hassle, as well as my students never actually caught on. 

This year, I've given upward on page numbers. As long equally my students guide maintain the notes inward their notebooks, I've decided it doesn't actually thing what page the notes are on. It is prissy to hold out able to tell the cast to opened upward up to page 52 to reference something, but I intend it's to a greater extent than of import to guide maintain my students taken ownership of their notebooks. I've started to recognize that some of my students demand lots as well as lots of do problems inward their notebooks. Other students produce goodness to a greater extent than from having a few do problems inward their notebooks as well as doing the balance of the problems on their dry out erase boards.

So, I've started giving my kids an option. We start a novel concept past times getting out our notebooks. After taking notes as well as doing a few do problems, I interruption as well as order them the choice to top away along their notebooks out or to transition to a dry out erase board for the balance of our do time. My students who demand the notes know that they demand the notes. My students who prefer the boards often produce as well as thence because they know that they are to a greater extent than willing to accept risks inward solving problems when mistakes tin order the axe hold out wiped away amongst a swipe of the finger.

For side past times side year, I intend I'm going to guide maintain students publish pages according to the learning goal. So, I tin order the axe state plough to the notes for learning destination 14. This may hold out a dissimilar page publish for each student, but nosotros should all the same hold out able to reference our notes together equally a cast when necessary.

It comes downwards to knowing your students as well as what they need. I'm learning to hold out less controlling inward for certain areas because I know it's what's best for my students.

As to your get-go question, I acquire do problems from a diverseness of sources. I ofttimes role problems from the free sample Kuta worksheets. I also top away along a textbook or ii to a greater extent than or less to pocket problems from. But, my close frequent rootage for problems is the Test as well as Item Specs as well as Released EOI Items from the Oklahoma Department of Education. I sweat to unwrap my students to the wording they volition run into on their end-of-instruction exams. I also ofttimes simply produce google searches for diverse topics as well as pocket worksheets as well as do problems from other teachers on the Internet.

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