Note Taking
Dr. Albie Sautter
Objectives
Strategies for
Creating Thoughtful
Note Takers
Practical Note Taking Suggestions
Suggestions Techniques for
for Students Teachers
Concept Cornell Split Screen 4 way Low ability
Mapping Method Notes Reporting Low vision
Dyslexia
Draw a penny.
Take notes on what you find
Effective Summaries
Delete unimportant material
Delete redundant material
Substitute more general terms.
Select a topic sentence or invent one if its
missing.
Delete trivial material
A. Summarizing
Delete redundant material
using Rules
Substitute general for specific terms XXX
Select a topic sentence or invent one
How Big is the Teacher Level Effect.
Most of the research on school level effects sums over the effect of teachers
within a specific school . The effect of an individual teacher, then, is lost in the
average for the school. Unless the teacher effect is separated from the school
effect, the impact of school leadership, organization, culture, climate, policies
school
and practices is overestimated since the importance of the classroom is ignored.
effect
In general, ignoring the intermediate classroom effects levels leads to an
overestimate of school effects. This overestimate amounts to the variance in
achievement between classes within schools divided by the number of classes.
Teachers make the difference as we all know.
Which gives us:
Most of the research on school level effects
sums over the effect of teachers within a
specific school. Unless the teacher effect is
separated from the school effect, school
effect is overestimated. This amounts to the
variance in achievement between classes
within schools divided by number of classes.
Summary Frames
Narrative of Story
Topic restriction illustration (TRI)
Definition
Argumentation
Problem of solution
Conversation
What does research say about Note
Taking?
Verbatim note taking is very ineffective.
Notes should be considered a work in
progress
Notes should be used as study guides for
tests.
The more notes that are taken the better.
No correct way to take notes
Recommendations for Classroom
Practice
Teach/ demonstrate a variety of note taking
formats.
Informal Outline
Web
Combination
Cornell System
Give Students teacher prepared notes
Remind students to review their notes.
Informal Outline
Informal Outline uses indentations to
separate major ideas from details
Jazz
Origins
Multiple influences
Banjo Music of minstrel shows
Black influenced Latin American Music
Light Classical Music
Ragtime
Blues
Turn of the 20th century New Orleans jazz
Trumpet or cornet melody
Improvisation focused on ensemble sound
Webbing Notes
Web Notes--Uses relative size of circles to
show the relative importance of ideas and
arrows or lines to show the relation between
these ideas.
It gives students a visual representation of
the ideas.
Use Concept Mapping
Shows relation of central ideas to each other
and to details.
Composite
Numbers
Prime
Factors Numbers
Number
Theory
Odd
Multiples Numbers
Even
Divisibility Numbers
Lifelong
Learning
Show Me Standards
Goals NCATE
Evaluation
Standards
Rubrics
INTASC
Units
ISTE
Lesson Plans
Objectives Curriculum Technology
Literacy
Content
Areas
Cornell System
Cornell System
Questions, Details and Main idea
Harnesses the power of using questions to filter
information.
Excellent review tool
Cornell Method
Read the material, list main topics
Turn Topics into questions about main ideas.
Separate paper into 3 columns:
Questions
Details
Main Ideas
Cornell Method
Questions Details Main Idea
X I know this. ? I have a question. *Need Review
Split Screen Notes
Images Concepts, Ideas,
details explained
Cornell System
I know this. ?I have a question about this. * I need to review this more.
Questions Details Main Idea
Teacher Prepared Notes
Helps to focus students. They give a clear
picture of what the teacher considers
important.
Gives students an example of how notes
could be taken and how they could organize
content
Leave information out for students to fill in.
Combination Notes
Combination or Split Screen Notes
Outline on left, Graphic Webbing on right and
summary sentence on the bottom.
Combination Notes
Inflation $1.10
Increases with the
G&S
money supply is
greater than the
Money
Supply >
value of out put of
goods and services
Decreases when
money supply is Output of
smaller than the
value of the nations
Money
< Goods and
Services
output.
$.90
Summary: Inflation results from the relationship between the
money supply and the value of output of goods and services.
More than just study skills
Comparing, classifying, analogies and
metaphors provide students with the tools to
identify, discover and understand what they
are learning.
Practical Hints for Students
1. Read the text before the lecture. Learn how the
concept is organized.
2. Listen actively - if possible think before you write -
but don't get behind.
3. Raise questions if appropriate. Don't let arguing
interfere with your note-taking.
4. Develop and use a standard method of note-taking
including punctuation, abbreviations, margins, etc.
More Practical Points
Take and keep notes in a large notebook. A large
notebook allows you to adequately indent and use
an outline form.
Leave a few spaces blank as you move from one
point to the next so that you can fill in additional
points later if necessary. Your objective is to take
helpful notes, not to save paper.
Practicalities
Listen for cues as to important points, transition
form one point to the next, repetition of points for
emphasis, changes in voice inflections,
enumeration of a series of points, etc.
Try to see the main points and do not get lost in a
barrage of minor points which do not seem related
to each other. Be alert to cues about what the
instructor thinks is important.
Neatness
Make your original notes legible enough for
your own reading, but use abbreviations of
your own invention when possible. The
effort required to recopy notes can be better
spent in rereading them and thinking about
them.
Distractions
Sit as close to the front of the class, there
are fewer distractions and it is easier to
hear, see and attend to important material.
Get assignments and suggestions precisely
- ask questions if you're not sure.
Note Taking Problems
What can happen and how to help.
Watch the Size of your text!
This is what a type written sheet looks like when placed on an overhead. How
do you think your students would respond to your request to read this and
make notes on your reading? What do you think the levels of intrinsic and
extraneous cognitive load will be when you ask them to do this? Do you think
they will feel frustrated? How much time do you think it would take them to
read this as opposed to having it on a separate sheet for them to read. On a
PowerPoint this paragraph should probably use at least three slides. What else
would make this easy to read? Separation into multiple paragraphs would also
help. Some suggest that there is a five by seven rule. There should be no more
that five lines of seven words on each slide.
Newspapers
Public transportation: Where do
we go from here?
Monday, October 31, 2005
Jennifer Freeze ~ Southeast Missourian
Where do we public transportation in Cape
Girardeau County will make their lives
a little easier.
At three public meetings go from here?
Nathan and Sara Cromwell haven't met
Frank Spielberg yet but the couple
hopes Spielberg's suggestions on how
to improve to be held Nov. 8 to 10,
Spielberg, a public transportation
consultant, will present his findings
from a year-long study of Cape
Girardeau County's problem of
inadequate public transportation.
The meetings will be held from 3 p.m. to 7
p.m. each day at the Salvation Army in
Cape Girardeau, the Missouri
Extension Center in Jackson and have
public transportation to and from work."
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Demonstration 1
Here are some notes for you to take.
Note taking Simulation
For this next exercise you will need a pen, a
piece of paper and a watch. Please copy
down the following text using the opposite
hand to which you usually write with. You
should complete the task within two minutes.
Addysgu
Mae gwaith yr Uned Dyslecsia yn ymestyn
dros ardal eang Gogledd-Orllewin Cymru, a'r
rhan helaethaf ohoni'n wledig. O ganlyniad,
nid yw'r Uned yn cynnal canolfan addysgu.
Mae ganddi swyddfeydd ac ystafelloedd at
ddefnydd athrawon, ond addysgir yn bennaf
mewn ysgolion neu leoedd eraill.
Dyslexia, Low Vision & Ability
Students with dyslexia find taking notes in
lectures difficult because of a similar list of
problems. Many have handwriting difficulties,
have problems listening and writing at the
same time and have difficulties spelling
(especially unfamiliar words that often crop
up in academic lectures).
Reflection
What would make note taking easier for
these students?
Suggestions for Low Ability Students
write down main points and terminology for students
provide handouts, summaries or copies of notes and
OHTs
be sympathetic to students using tape recorders in
classes
avoid dictation
provide guided/structured lectures, indicate changes
in topics and key points
allow students time to absorb information
Suggestions for Low Vision Students
Use a large font or handwriting
provide handouts, summaries or copies of notes.
be sympathetic to students using tape recorders in
classes
Verbalize all Notes
provide guided/structured lectures, indicate changes
in topics and key points
allow students time to absorb information
Note Taking Skills
Dr. Albie Sautter