Monday, August 22, 2011

Taking Notes

Here are the resources I'm going to use this year to try to help my 15 yo develop better note-taking skills (which are currently at the abysmal level!):

Note Taking Made Easy!: Strategies & Scaffolded Lessons for Helping All Students Take Effective Notes, Summarize & Learn the Content They Need to Know by Deana Hippie

How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less by Cal Newport


Learning to Learn: Strengthening Study Skills and Brain Power by Gloria Frender

Your instructor is not going to hold up a flag when he or she states an important new idea or gives an example, but he or she will use signal words to give you the message that what's being said is important. Every good speaker does this, and you should expect to hear these signals. For example, he or she may introduce an example with "for example" as done here!
http://english-zone.com/study/signals.html

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