Hopefully, you are still enjoying your summer, but it is nice to start thinking about what you would like to do differently for the 2014-2015 school year.
A great way to motivate students, document growth, communicate with parents, and track students successes is with data notebooks. These are a few links that I found that have really great templates to help with starting your own data notebooks for your class: Montgomery County Public Schools - This sites has oodles of templates for elementary school data notebooks. Third Grade Data Notebooks - This is a blog from a teacher with links to different forms that she uses. Bugg Elementary's Notebooks - This is a magnet school in Raleigh that I observed this year. Their K-2 students have 3 ring binders for data notebooks, but their 3-5 students have digital notebooks. (They have a 1-to-1 iPad program.) This is how they organize their information: Sections Personal Profile: information about the student, their personal goals and objectives, and celebrations Academics: Common Core reading and math goals and objectives, data, artifacts, and reflections that document progress towards reaching goals Arts and Athletics: personal art based goals and objectives, data, artifacts, and reflections Communication: logs that reflect conferences, events/field trips, behavior concerns, and helpful resources I worked with data notebooks for several years at Wells Elementary. My favorite part was when we had "Data Notebook Parent Night". Parents came in to see how their child was doing, but the students led the conversations. Each student picked up their Data Notebook and explained everything to their parents. Using data notebooks helps encourage you as a teacher to document each student's individual progress. Students learn to focus on growth instead of comparing themselves to others. Feel free to email me with any questions about using data notebooks.
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AuthorI am an Instructional Technology Facilitator for 5 elementary schools in Wilson, North Carolina. This is my second year as an ITF, but I have a total of 10 years of experience in education. Archives
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