Scrapbooks That Teach Enhances Classroom Experience Assisting Students to Personalize the Curriculum

PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 22, 2008 – Scrapbooks that Teach, an nationally based educational scrapbooking company, has announced its suite of academic scrapbooking kits to assist students to personalize the curriculum through the teacher's lesson. Several years of classroom research has suggested that students who personalize the curriculum may retain it more effectively as a result of the visual product produced through the academic scrapbooking activity. The company uses an instructional model that guides the teacher through their lesson to the Independent Practice component of the lesson plan. Academic scrapbooking uses the teacher's lesson and their state's standards to develop the custom designed academic scrapbooking kit. Heidi Willard, M.Ed., states, "These kits are more than something else for teachers to introduce in their classrooms. Scrapbooking in the classroom may help to increase student retention of the curriculum because students have a visual record for themselves interacting in a positive manner with a benchmark or standard. It becomes more than something the student feels she or he has to do as told by the teacher. The research indicators are important to teachers and school districts when accountability for student assessment scores comes into play." Recognizing the powerful No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and mounting pressures for performance on high school assessments and the 4th and 8th grade benchmark tests, the world class standards for our nation's students remains the same. Scrapbooks that Teach has rolled out a number of new initiatives through their online business just in time for the new school year: Academic Scrapbooking Kits Annual Subscription; Substitute LunchBox Kits that focus on literacy, math, and writing; and, Academic Scrapbooking Accommodations for students with learning disabilities or who need an extra boost.