Octm 2014: Making Note-Taking Fun & Interactive
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If you're visiting my spider web log afterwards attention my OCTM presentation on interactive notebooks, welcome! I'm thus excited to receive got you lot hither inwards my petty corner of the footing broad web. (Does anybody fifty-fifty telephone vociferation upwards it that anymore??? Oh well...) If you lot merely happened upon this site, you're also welcome. Pull upwards a seat. And, if you're ane of my regular readers, permit me merely say thanks! If you lot didn't read, I'd in all probability withal blog. But, you lot brand the blogging procedure thus much to a greater extent than fun!
We're going to speak nigh something today that is rattling nigh as well as love to my heart: interactive notebooks! I've used interactive notebooks inwards my Algebra 1 as well as Algebra 2 classes for the past times 2 years. In fact, I can't imagine didactics without them!
I desire this page to hold upwards both a reference for people who attended my session as well as people who were unable to attend but are withal curious nigh the procedure of creating interactive notebooks. So, hither are my slides:
At the outset of my presentation, I took a yoke of moments to innovate myself.
And, for the bulk of Oklahomans who don't know where Drumright is, I thought I'd include a prissy petty map that I constitute online. For the record, I didn't know where Drumright was until the twenty-four hours I went to my project interview. The superintendent called me to inquire how long it would accept me to acquire from Tulsa to in that place for an interview. Not knowing where Drumright fifty-fifty was, I had to inquire him how long it would take! He thus had to give me driving directions over the phone...
I asked my participants this question: If you lot asked your students to pull the note-taking that happens inwards your math classroom, what would they say?
Then, I shared alongside them how my students described note-taking inwards their letters of advice to students taking the shape adjacent year. You tin forcefulness out read to a greater extent than of the advice they gave equally business office of that assignment here as well as here.
I tried to add together color to brand their specific statements stand upwards out more. These quotes are word-for-word excerpts from the letters that they wrote. Probably my favorite comment is that they accept "lots of meaningful, colorful notes." I similar that they used the discussion "colorful," but the fact that they described them equally "meaningful" makes me desire to saltation upwards as well as downward alongside excitement.
Of course, the feedback isn't 100% positive. And, it never volition be. One of my students noted that the notebooks acquire "annoying sometimes." I don't shout back that's necessarily a bad thing. My students pass a large portion of their fourth dimension annoyed at me. Why can't nosotros receive got a costless day? Why practise you lot brand us practise thus much work? Nobody else is didactics today. Why are you? Yeah, I'm okay alongside "annoyed." I tell them that I practise it because I love them, as well as it's true.
There are a ton of benefits to using interactive notebooks. These are merely a few of the benefits I've constitute inwards my ain classroom.
One of the wonderful things nigh interactive notebooks is that they tin forcefulness out hold upwards whatever you lot desire them to be. My students don't receive got textbooks, thus nosotros are creating our ain textbook equally nosotros become throughout the year. My students piece of employment them for notes only. But, other teachers receive got students shop their homework as well as bellwork inwards their notebooks equally well. If you lot opened upwards ane of my notebooks, you lot volition honor foldables as well as graphic organizers galore. That's my didactics mode as well as ane of my strengths. If foldables merely aren't your thing, don't practise them. That's your choice. Your notebook should reverberate your personality as well as didactics style.
Many teachers brand a differentiation betwixt left paw as well as right paw pages. Right paw pages are instructor directed. They are the notes typically constitute inwards a math class. Left paw pages are pupil directed. The students receive got to honor some agency to procedure the data provided past times the instructor as well as to create some form of visual display that demonstrates their understanding. This could hateful creating an example of a concept, writing as well as solving your ain problem, writing a vocal nigh the topic, drawing a comic strip nigh the topic, writing a missive of the alphabet to a friend describing the steps to solving a specific type of problem, choosing iii homework problems as well as writing out detailed solutions, etc. The possibilities are endless.
I originally intended to piece of employment the left-hand/right-hand distinction, but it merely hasn't worked for me. I justice I merely receive got a demand for command or something. I receive got to dictate to my students precisely what needs to become on each page of their notebooks. I withal give them a sure enough bird of pick alongside some pages, but non the same extent of pick that is given past times other teachers. It's completely upwards to you lot how much pick you lot allow your students!
After this brief introduction to interactive notebooks, nosotros jumped into looking at lots as well as lots of pictures of interactive notebook pages I receive got made inwards the past. I've made a bunch, thus it was thus difficult to pick out what pages as well as ideas I wanted to highlight.
If you lot browse around my spider web log for long enough, you lot volition eventually honor all of the interactive notebook pages I receive got created. I late created a Pinterest page that features pictures of every unmarried interactive notebook page I receive got made + links to the page it is constitute on. You tin forcefulness out click on the movie to see that page to download the file for that page or to read more.
My best proposition is to follow the pinterest link higher upwards as well as merely pass fourth dimension browsing. There are currently over 280 pictures to hold off at. And, that's merely the tip of the H2O ice berg. You'll encounter some pages that you lot could piece of employment without modifications alongside your students. And, you'll encounter some pages that you lot would never use. Many of these foldables tin forcefulness out hold upwards easily modified to embrace whatever let on of topics, though.
There's also a tab at the plow over of this page that volition Pb you lot to a page of foldables, templates, as well as graphic organizers that I receive got created. I haven't updated this page alongside notebook pages from the 2013-2014 schoolhouse year, thus I'm a chip behind. They're on my spider web log as well as on the pinterest page, I merely haven't added them to the tab at the top. I'm getting to the request where I receive got made thus many pages as well as activities that they are difficult to organize!
I acquire e-mails every calendar week from people who are curious nigh how to acquire started alongside interactive notebooks. I'm never quite happy alongside the responses I write to these e-mails. Here's my latest endeavour at answering the query of how to acquire started:
If you lot desire fifty-fifty to a greater extent than interactive notebook inspiration, I would recommend checking out the next sites of other teachers who piece of employment interactive notebooks inwards their classrooms. I receive got stolen thus many ideas from them!
We're going to speak nigh something today that is rattling nigh as well as love to my heart: interactive notebooks! I've used interactive notebooks inwards my Algebra 1 as well as Algebra 2 classes for the past times 2 years. In fact, I can't imagine didactics without them!
I desire this page to hold upwards both a reference for people who attended my session as well as people who were unable to attend but are withal curious nigh the procedure of creating interactive notebooks. So, hither are my slides:
At the outset of my presentation, I took a yoke of moments to innovate myself.
And, for the bulk of Oklahomans who don't know where Drumright is, I thought I'd include a prissy petty map that I constitute online. For the record, I didn't know where Drumright was until the twenty-four hours I went to my project interview. The superintendent called me to inquire how long it would accept me to acquire from Tulsa to in that place for an interview. Not knowing where Drumright fifty-fifty was, I had to inquire him how long it would take! He thus had to give me driving directions over the phone...
I asked my participants this question: If you lot asked your students to pull the note-taking that happens inwards your math classroom, what would they say?
Then, I shared alongside them how my students described note-taking inwards their letters of advice to students taking the shape adjacent year. You tin forcefulness out read to a greater extent than of the advice they gave equally business office of that assignment here as well as here.
I tried to add together color to brand their specific statements stand upwards out more. These quotes are word-for-word excerpts from the letters that they wrote. Probably my favorite comment is that they accept "lots of meaningful, colorful notes." I similar that they used the discussion "colorful," but the fact that they described them equally "meaningful" makes me desire to saltation upwards as well as downward alongside excitement.
Of course, the feedback isn't 100% positive. And, it never volition be. One of my students noted that the notebooks acquire "annoying sometimes." I don't shout back that's necessarily a bad thing. My students pass a large portion of their fourth dimension annoyed at me. Why can't nosotros receive got a costless day? Why practise you lot brand us practise thus much work? Nobody else is didactics today. Why are you? Yeah, I'm okay alongside "annoyed." I tell them that I practise it because I love them, as well as it's true.
There are a ton of benefits to using interactive notebooks. These are merely a few of the benefits I've constitute inwards my ain classroom.
One of the wonderful things nigh interactive notebooks is that they tin forcefulness out hold upwards whatever you lot desire them to be. My students don't receive got textbooks, thus nosotros are creating our ain textbook equally nosotros become throughout the year. My students piece of employment them for notes only. But, other teachers receive got students shop their homework as well as bellwork inwards their notebooks equally well. If you lot opened upwards ane of my notebooks, you lot volition honor foldables as well as graphic organizers galore. That's my didactics mode as well as ane of my strengths. If foldables merely aren't your thing, don't practise them. That's your choice. Your notebook should reverberate your personality as well as didactics style.
Many teachers brand a differentiation betwixt left paw as well as right paw pages. Right paw pages are instructor directed. They are the notes typically constitute inwards a math class. Left paw pages are pupil directed. The students receive got to honor some agency to procedure the data provided past times the instructor as well as to create some form of visual display that demonstrates their understanding. This could hateful creating an example of a concept, writing as well as solving your ain problem, writing a vocal nigh the topic, drawing a comic strip nigh the topic, writing a missive of the alphabet to a friend describing the steps to solving a specific type of problem, choosing iii homework problems as well as writing out detailed solutions, etc. The possibilities are endless.
I originally intended to piece of employment the left-hand/right-hand distinction, but it merely hasn't worked for me. I justice I merely receive got a demand for command or something. I receive got to dictate to my students precisely what needs to become on each page of their notebooks. I withal give them a sure enough bird of pick alongside some pages, but non the same extent of pick that is given past times other teachers. It's completely upwards to you lot how much pick you lot allow your students!
After this brief introduction to interactive notebooks, nosotros jumped into looking at lots as well as lots of pictures of interactive notebook pages I receive got made inwards the past. I've made a bunch, thus it was thus difficult to pick out what pages as well as ideas I wanted to highlight.
If you lot browse around my spider web log for long enough, you lot volition eventually honor all of the interactive notebook pages I receive got created. I late created a Pinterest page that features pictures of every unmarried interactive notebook page I receive got made + links to the page it is constitute on. You tin forcefulness out click on the movie to see that page to download the file for that page or to read more.
My best proposition is to follow the pinterest link higher upwards as well as merely pass fourth dimension browsing. There are currently over 280 pictures to hold off at. And, that's merely the tip of the H2O ice berg. You'll encounter some pages that you lot could piece of employment without modifications alongside your students. And, you'll encounter some pages that you lot would never use. Many of these foldables tin forcefulness out hold upwards easily modified to embrace whatever let on of topics, though.
There's also a tab at the plow over of this page that volition Pb you lot to a page of foldables, templates, as well as graphic organizers that I receive got created. I haven't updated this page alongside notebook pages from the 2013-2014 schoolhouse year, thus I'm a chip behind. They're on my spider web log as well as on the pinterest page, I merely haven't added them to the tab at the top. I'm getting to the request where I receive got made thus many pages as well as activities that they are difficult to organize!
I acquire e-mails every calendar week from people who are curious nigh how to acquire started alongside interactive notebooks. I'm never quite happy alongside the responses I write to these e-mails. Here's my latest endeavour at answering the query of how to acquire started:
I'm thus excited to listen that you lot desire to essay out interactive notebooks adjacent year! The procedure tin forcefulness out hold upwards a tad overwhelming! Here's my advice for getting started.
1. Decide what type of notebook to use. I prefer composition notebooks. Spiral notebooks piece of employment corking for a semester, but they merely won't concur upwards for the entire schoolhouse year. Others piece of employment binders or fifty-fifty graph newspaper notebooks. All receive got their pros as well as cons, of course.
2. Decide what you lot desire your students to maintain inwards their notebooks. Just notes? Homework? Bellwork? If students are merely keeping notes inwards their notebooks, where volition the other materials go? This is ane practise goodness of using a binder. You could receive got a divider for notes as well as other dividers for homework, tests, etc. I receive got my students solely maintain their notes inwards their notebooks. We don't receive got textbooks, thus nosotros are essentially creating our ain textbooks. Students larn pretty rapidly that if nosotros spot it inwards our notebook, it must hold upwards important! Next year, I'm going to receive got my students brand homework/test portfolios inwards add-on to their notebooks.
3. How volition you lot score notebooks? Completion? Rubric? Some people truly don't score their notebooks. At my school, if I don't score something, my students don't practise it. I've moved to to a 0 or 100 grading scale for notebooks. If it's non perfect, students acquire a 0 as well as are required to redo the missing/incorrect pages inwards social club to earn that perfect score. Students accept much to a greater extent than aid alongside their notebooks now!
4. Figure out what your initiative off unit of measurement of the twelvemonth volition be. Do a search on pinterest for that theme followed past times "foldable" or "graphic organizer." Get an old, partially-used notebook. Try to pattern notebook pages based on ideas you lot encounter online or from your ain imagination. Play around alongside it. Have fun! This is the best agency to encounter what plant as well as what doesn't. I started out past times making fossil oil sketches of my pages, as well as that was the most helpful affair I could receive got e'er done.
5. Have fun! Your initiative off twelvemonth (or 2d twelvemonth or tertiary twelvemonth or - I shout back you lot acquire the picture!) of notebooking won't hold upwards perfect. You'll cash inwards one's chips along to larn ameliorate ways to explicate things as well as improve your notes/foldables/graphic organizers. Realize that some days your notes volition hold upwards boring. That's okay.
If you lot demand inspiration, I late made a pinterest board alongside links to every unmarried notebook page I receive got made over the past times 2 years! Clicking on each movie should accept you lot to the page on my spider web log where you lot tin forcefulness out download a PDF file to brand that page. http://www.pinterest.com/mathequalslove/my-interactive-notebook-pages/
If you lot desire fifty-fifty to a greater extent than interactive notebook inspiration, I would recommend checking out the next sites of other teachers who piece of employment interactive notebooks inwards their classrooms. I receive got stolen thus many ideas from them!
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