Interactive Notebook Teacher Tool

How to use this freebie tool:

• Print a few sheets of this organizer
• Get out your unit outline, standards, or learning goal charts: Find all the items that you believe best demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of the standards you will need to meet in the unit. The item that I look at to do this is my learning goal charts. They have all the "I can" statements students need to achieve for the year based on the academic plan, test specs, and standards being used per unit.
  • Examples:
  • 6th Grade World History
  • 7th Grade Civics
  • 8th Grade US History
• Organize the items you have found into left and right items. 
  • Right: goes into the brain.
  • Left: can they put it back out?
  • You can organize them by creating yourself a simple graphic organizer. I just fold up a piece of computer paper to keep my thought process in check, but if your at a beginner level try using an actual graphic organizer for the first few times.
  • Remember to set it up as a gradual release.
• Add some creativity!
  • Double check that it's not always just the boring prompts and readings. Work should be meaningful and should never be busy work. But make sure your left sides aren't just basic checking for understandings. 
• Think about your test! 
• After piecing it all together, create lesson strips that are student and parent friendly and give CLEAR expectations. (not needed, but makes communication so much easier for expectations between students and teacher, as well as teacher and parents).

Check out my blog post for new and creative ideas to amp up your interactive notebook.

http://msdunnesedu.blogspot.com/2017/11/interactive-notebooks-to-whole-new-level.html

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