Planning and Setting up Interactive Notebooks for Teachers

Here's the mistake I see teachers make with interactive notebooks—they expect notebooks to magically improve learning without teaching students how to use them. Notebook routines need to be taught, practiced, and reinforced just like any other classroom procedure. At the beginning of the year, I put examples under the document camera, talked through my thinking as I filled out a page, and showed them what thorough looked like versus rushed. This took time up front but saved so much frustration l

Effective Strategies for Interactive Notebooks in Middle School