Amanda Felts
Name of Strategy: Interactive Notebook
This Strategy comes from Addison Wesleys History Alive Program
This Strategy I thought would be really easy to use in any classroom. The students use both sides of thier spiral note book to take the same notes differently. On the right side of the notebook you have the students write down lecture notes, book notes, and other notes just as they appear in the classroom. On the Left side of the spiral you have the student write how tey can relate old knowledge to newly learned material. They can draw pictures to represent what they are learning in thier own way. It is a great way to check for understanding and comprehenision in any subject.
The NCSCOS would be addressed in this activity by the students taking notes and putting them in thier own words. Since this activitity could be used in any subject and topic the NCSCOS applies by whatever you are teaching.
This would really help all sorts of learners learn and comprehend much more, because students are given the opportunity to put what is done in class in thier own words, and understand topics in thier own way. For example: the visual learner can draw pictures on the left side of thier notebook to demonstrate to themselves how something works and interacts.
This strategy will work because the students will get out of it what they put into it. So if you set very high expectations for students in your classroom, they will go the extra mile to make sure that they can understand something thier own way rather than the way everyone else does.
Theo Ramsey said,
May 29, 2008 @ 2:23 am
Hey,
I like this. I think this would be a good reference for students to look back and see how they interputed something and compare it to motes taken in class.
Theo Ramsey
rbwilson0824 said,
May 29, 2008 @ 10:05 pm
Another version of this is allowing students to draw pictures while the teacher lectures to help them remember what is being said. Most of my students take lots of notes, but many have difficulty deciphering what they have written, what it really means and how it applies to them and what they are supposed to learn. One caveat: the students have to draw pictures that actually relate to the lecture! Roberta Wilson
robertclewis said,
May 29, 2008 @ 11:44 pm
This would work well especially in non fiction text books. The Greece school system is very helpful.
mandyjennings said,
May 31, 2008 @ 2:04 am
This would be something that would be really neat to see in action. I think that you would have some students who would only work on “one” side at a time. You would have other students that would jump back and forth. I think it would be really neat to have students work on both sides at the same time- taking notes, but writing down other pieces of information as they pop into their heads to be discussed later. There are many times when you wonder- I wonder if that has something to do with…- this would give them a chance to ask.
Mandy Jennings
flilly said,
May 31, 2008 @ 2:28 am
I can see this strategy adapted to technology education. My eighth graders are not generally an especially literate bunch. My classes are scheduled opposite band and chorus. I believe if I let my students make their own notes together with illustrations they might buy into it.
Frank Lilly