NOTE TAKING STRATEGIES

WHY DO WE TAKE NOTES?

• Main purpose: To have retention of knowledge for life-long learning and assessment

• Note taking “provides students with the tools for identifying and understanding the most important aspects of what they are learning” Marzano

WHAT OTHER METHODS HAVE YOU TRIED?

Here are ideas for other note taking strategies

• Use the Cornell Note taking method for 6th grade and above• Many ideas can be integrated depending on topic and

student needs

K-W-L

MAIN IDEA

Main Idea

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WHAT IS THE CORNELL NOTE METHOD?

• A system of note taking that enables students to focus the ideas of a lesson and help make sense of what they are learning

• Can be used in correlation with other note taking styles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtW9IyE04OQ

HOW

• Have students outline their paper with the topic, if needed help them with the main idea or WALT.

• Include the vocabulary word(s)• Read the materials together as a class first, then go back

to create the notes• Have students summarize at the end as a review

THINGS TEACHERS CAN DO

• Model the behavior of what you want them to do• Demonstrate how notes are taken• Divide up the note taking process into different phases

so that the methods can be readily absorbed• Explain and demonstrate why note taking is important• Offer students several different types of systems of

taking notes to give students autonomy and responsibility for themselves

RESOURCES FOR NOTE TAKING LESSONS

• http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson322.shtml

• http://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/take-great-notes/