MayaWest Writing Project 2012 DEMO:

Academic Scrapbook

MRS Dominica Lassalle PellotMRS Dominica Lassalle PellotHigh School Special Education High School Special Education

TeacherTeacherSaturday, August 18, 2012Saturday, August 18, 2012

About me

born in Aguadilla, Puerto RicoI have two adorable daughtersI attended Universidad Metropolitana de AguadillaI 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.

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This is my school

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

  

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My class Room

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

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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.

   

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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.

Theory Of Multiple Intelligences

Theory Of Multiple Intelligences

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

Why Scrapbooks?

Organization and Synthesizing Organization and Synthesizing InformationInformation

Students can…

•Conceptualize an idea

•Organize thoughts around a theme or question

•Express thoughts three dimensionally

Why Scrapbooks?Writing and PublishingWriting 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

Why Scrapbooks?Reading Response ActivitiesScrapbooks are …

•A powerful reading response tool

•An open ended and interpretive medium

•Able to generate visual and linguistic responses for a variety of genres

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

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

Topics for Scrapbooks

•Vocabulary

•Journal Writing

•Geometry

•Biography

•Science Fair Project

•Graphs and Charts

•Reports and Research

•Geography

•Poetry

•Book Reports

•Field Trips

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), 

Digital ScrapbooksScrapblogging – 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.

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Links for Scrapbooking•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.

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Scrapbooking in the Classroom

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scrapbooking in the classroom has resulted in enthusiastic

students who remember what is being taught! "