Interactive Student Notebooks

ISN Guidelines Interactive notebooks allow you to record information and process it to improve your level of understanding. As you learn new concepts, you will use several types of writing and graphic techniques to record them. This process will get you to use critical-thinking skills or habits of mind to organise and process new information. As a result, you can become a more creative, more independent thinker and will have a deeper understanding of what you are learning. Why do this? Writing down notes does not mean that you have learned the new information. You must actively do something with the new concepts before you really understand it. Note-taking becomes an active process. You will organise as you learn. You will record ideas about every activity that you engage in during a unit. You will use organisational techniques such as TOPIC HEADINGS, coloured highlights and different writing styles to summarise concepts. It gives you permission to be playful and creative in your responses without messing up your notes. When you are creative, you will remember more. It serves as a reminder to me to give you time to absorb ideas as we go. If I see blank left-hand pages, I will know that I am providing too much information without giving you enough time to process the materialor maybe you are not working at your learning! Bottom line: Your interactive notebook becomes part of your portfolio of what you actually learned Halaman Kiri (Left page) Student Directed Reorganise new information in creative formats Express opinions and feelings. Your Homework. You will work out an understanding of the new material by using illustrations, diagrams, flow charts, poetry, and cartoons. You will have thinking maps, reflections and pictures. You will review what you have learned and preview what you will learn. Warm up and cool down exercises go here. You will actively do something with the information. You will explore your opinions and clarify your values on controversial issues, wonder about what if hypothetical situations and ask questions about new ideas. This side will have Student Generated Information. Instruksi Umum (General Instructions) Halaman Kanan (Right page) Teacher Directed Class notes, discussion & reading notes, handouts with new information.

Most testable information is found here. You should structure your notes so that key ideas and concepts are clear and supported by examples.

Notes from powerpoints, movies, group discussions or readings. Answers to fact based questions. Content that is similar for everyone. This side will have Teacher- Generated Information.

To create your Interactive notebooks, you must bring these materials to class each day: 128 page lined exercise book A pen (or several different coloured pens would be ideal) Glue stick or clear tape Colour Pencils A small pair of scissors

Although the notebooks emphasize creativity and originality, a few organizational practices should be followed. Therefore, students should: Record every assignment on the Daftar Isi. Begin each assignment entry on a new page with a header that contains a Judul (the title) dan Tanggal (the date) For each unit: Write the title of the unit on the right side of your notebook. Find a picture or draw an illustration that represents a theme of the unit. All notebook pages will be chronological. All handouts will be glued into your notebook unless I specify otherwise. Additional ideas to make your notebook visually and graphically appealing: Use a variety of note taking techniques suggested from note-taking handout. i.e. An outline, a matrix, mind maps, etc. Use colour to highlight meaning, not just as decoration, think of an alternative method if you think you may be colour blind. Exchange notebooks with your friends to get ideas from each other as long as you do not write the same thing on the left side. You will receive a 0 if you have copied another students work. Leave blank spaces throughout your notebooks for pasting relevant clipping and cartoons for adding comments when you review for tests. All homework assignments will be in your notebook unless I specify otherwise. I will collect the notebooks twice a grading period. The checks will be UNANNOUNCED! Assessing the Interactive Notebooks Notebooks will be checked periodically as a test grade and these checks will not be announced. All class notes and notebook right-side assignments should be included, even for the days in which you were absent. This includes each being recorded in the table of contents. Each right side assignment must be complete, have a heading, and the date assigned or given written on it. Mostly it is checked on being complete but the left sides must be varied (not all the same kind of activity) and not be a simple restatement or a picture with no processing of content from the right side. Please refer to Middle School Indonesian Wiki for up-to-date information on what we have completed in class.