MayaWest Writing Project 2012 DEMO: Academic Scrapbook

1. MayaWest Writing Project 2012 DEMO: Academic Scrapbook MRS Dominica Lassalle Pellot High School Special Education Teacher Saturday, August 18, 2012

2. About me • born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico • I have two adorable daughters • I attended Universidad Metropolitana de Aguadilla • I completed a Master Degree Special EducationIn 2009 • I started working for the Department of Education as an Special Education Teacher. I have worked in different schools from Rincon, Aguadilla, Moca and actually in Isabela.

3. This is my school Dr. Heriberto Domenech, Isabela,PR Level: High schoolLowest Grade Offered: 10th grade Highest Grade Offered: 12th grade Total Students: 610 I like my school a lot.

4. My class Room I have 25 students in my class room but I teach individual groups by grade.

5. My Philosophy I believe that every human being has a great potential to perform, noble faculties to cultivate, a vast destiny to accomplish.The teacher has to provide relevant, pertinent, correct, and useful information to the student that will allow him/her to apply it in similar or related situations that they will encounter.

6. Theory Of Multiple Intelligences y The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences was proposed by Howard Gardner in 1983 as a model of intelligence that differentiates intelligence into various specific (primarily sensory) modalities, rather than seeing it as dominated by a single general ability.

7. Theory Of Multiple Intelligences

8. y Why Scrapbooks? “Scrapbooking gives students the chance to use their organizational, writing and artistic skills while recording their learning in a fun, hands-on way.”

9. Why Scrapbooks? • Organization and Synthesizing Information • Students can… • Conceptualize an idea • Organize thoughts around a theme or question • Express thoughts three dimensionally

10. Why Scrapbooks? • Writing and Publishing • Scrapbooks can… • Highlight student writing • Teach writing organization • Teach editing and proofing skills • Develop oral language skills • Build skills such as listing, labeling, letter writing and paragraphs • Develop writing about other subject areas like math and science

11. Why Scrapbooks? • Reading Response Activities • Scrapbooks are … • A powerful reading response tool • An open ended and interpretive medium • Able to generate visual and linguistic responses for a variety of genres

12. Why Scrapbooks? • Multiple Intelligence Factors • Differentiated Instruction is built in • Allows students to use their individual strengths • Allows the students to take ownership of their learning • Can be an easy project for cooperative learning

13. Why Scrapbooks? • Motivation, Technology and Creativity • Gives students an outlet for sharing their work • An easy way to make something meaningful and beautiful • The product looks good no matter what the ability • Digital Scrapbooks • Shows how students use the technology instead of the teacher • Allows parents to see the process and comment on student work • In sync with the Web 2.0 generation

14. Topics for Scrapbooks • Reports and Research • Geography • Poetry • Book Reports • Field Trips • Vocabulary • Journal Writing • Geometry • Biography • Science Fair Project • Graphs and Charts

15. References • Gardner, Howard. (1983) Multiple Intelligences,  Basic Books. Castellano "Inteligencias múltiples" ISBN: 84-493-1806-8 Paidos • Gardner, Howard. (1999) "Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century." Basic Books. • Klein, Perry, D. (1997) "Multiplying the problems of intelligence by eight: A critique of Gardner's theory", Canadian Journal of Education, 22(4), 377-394. • Klein, Perry, D. (1998) "A response to Howard Gardner: Falsifiability, empirical evidence, and pedagogical usefulness in educational psychology" Canadian Journal of Education, 23(1), 

16. Digital Scrapbooks • Scrapblogging – http://www.scrapblog.com • http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/viewer.aspx?sbid=248963 - a First Grade scrapbook of the school year • http://epireading.pbwiki.com/June+5,+2008+-+Day+8 – examples of comprehension strategy scrapblogs • http://mrsayrish.blogspot.com – examples of Birthday Story scrapblogs from my class • http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/viewer.aspx?sbid=445395 – a scrapblog about books new to the library.

17. Links for Scrapbooking b • http://www.escrapbooking.com/overview.html#tools – This site outlines using digital scrapbooking for education. It is very comprehensive. • http://www.scrapbooksthatteach.com - This is a site created for teachers who use scrapbooking in the classroom. • http://www.edutopia.org/academic-scrapbooking-photographs-journals - This one is an article about the motivating factors behind scrapbooks in education. • This is an article by the author of READIN’, WRITIN’ & SCRAPPIN’ which can be downloaded from http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Readin-Writin-Scrappin-Scrapbooking-As-A-Teaching-Tool • http://www.radzanowski.org/Laura/scrapbook2/scrap_index.htm - This is a well thought out site that tells the whys and hows of digital scrapbooking for the classroom.

18. b Books for Scrapbooking in the Classroom

19. b “My use of academic scrapbooking in the classroom has resulted in enthusiastic students who remember what is being taught! "