Most teachers lament that there’s not enough time in the day to get everything done. Between limited time planning time, meetings, duties, parent conferences, and the actual teaching part of your job, it’s hard to get it all done. For many of us, interactive notebooks are the answer. They allow you to increase student engagement while cutting your planning time in half!
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- Interactive notebooks help to foster student (and teacher) organization. The great thing about notebooking is that the students have a place for everything they’re writing down. By streamlining their process, you’re increasing your own productivity and effectiveness.
- Interactive notebooks develop a sense of ownership within each student. Their notebook is something to be proud of and it increases their self confidence and instills a goal-setting mindset. The notebook also encourages creative thinking as students are given the freedom to tackle assignments in a way that works for their learning style.
- Interactive notebooks allow you to differentiate your lessons with ease. Notebooking means a variety of instructional strategies are at your fingertips. Individualized lessons are a breeze and formative assessments can easily be used.
- Interactive notebooks appeal to multiple learning styles. Interactive notebooks give you the freedom to incorporate anything you want into each session. Easily create activities for kinesthetic, auditory, visual, or verbal learners.
- Interactive notebooks incorporate effective time management strategies. Perhaps one of the largest benefits of interactive notebooking is the focused and already organized input and output. You’re less likely to get off-track. By making use of every minute of each class period, you’re increasing student engagement, productivity, test scores, and time available for labs and experiments.
- Interactive notebooks allow you to teach the way you want to teach. Interactive notebooks give you the freedom to put your own spin on everything you do. You’re in your classroom with your students for a reason. Interactive notebooking allows you to reach every learner every day. It allows you to incorporate your own creativity as you put your personality into each class.For a variety of interactive notebook resources, check out our board on Pinterest. It has a little bit of everything: templates, grading solutions, a planning sheet… and that’s just the beginning.
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LearnEd Notebooks provides teachers and students with an innovative notebooking solution. We specialize in providing educators with a unique curriculum that allows you to break free from conventional methods of instruction and spend more time on labs and inquiry-based science. We provide the framework of an interactive notebook with the flexibility of teaching strategies that seamlessly integrate with each teacher’s own methods of instruction. Our complete programs include printed student notebooks, digital presentations, and access to teacher resources — each focusing on diverse learning styles and engaging instructional strategies.
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