1. Response 6 Do your Peer Planner Check. Study for Quiz on Chpt 5
I need one (1) volunteer (you MUST be brave and not allow disruptions to get to you)
How do you think your teachers view YOU? Describe your body language, the tone of your questions (do you ask questions of the teacher? or of a classmate while the teacher is teaching?), your eye contact, your attentiveness, if you take notes...
Response 6

2. Press your luck - NO Whammies!
Chapter 5 Quiz

3. Chapter 6 Listening, Note Taking, and Memory: Taking In, Recording, and Remembering
Keys to Success, Sixth Edition
Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits

4. “Successfully Intelligent people..
find their path and then pursue it, realizing that there will be obstacles along the way and that surmounting these obstacles is part of their challenge.”
Robert Sternberg

5. Real Questions, Practical Answers
How can I improve my memory?

6. Memory quiz Listen to this song. As you listen, take notes on it.
You will have 5 minutes to talk with a partner about this song
At the end of class today, there will be a quiz on this song.
Death Cab for Cutie, “I’ll Follow You Into the Dark”
Memory quiz

7. But first! A demonstration
A volunteer from class will present.
Each classmate will be assigned a task to perform during the presentation.
All classmates will take their own notes about the presentation
How complete are your notes?
How did the speaker feel as this was going on?

8. How do you act in the classroom?
Is it important how your teacher sees you?
Is how you behave in class important? To whom?
How do you act in the classroom?

9. How Can You Become a Better Listener?
Know the Stages of Listening
Manage Listening Challenges
Become an Active Listener

10. Listening vs. Hearing
Hear: Perceiving sound by ear. Involuntary. It just happens.
Listen: Pay attention. Requires concentration.

11. Stages of Listening Sensation – here comes a sound wave!
Interpretation – attach a meaning
Evaluation – judge the info – Does this really mean anything to me?
Reaction – question and comment (don’t rush it! take your time!)
Take a Look at Key 6.1

12. In your MI groups: Come up with ways to Combat Listening Challenges
Divided attention and distractions
Listening lapses
The rush to judgment
Partial hearing loss and learning disabilities

13. Become an Active Listener
Be there – show up on time for class!
Set purposes for listening
Focus on understanding
Ask questions
Pay attention to verbal signposts
Expect the unexpected

14. Verbal Signposts
Pg 177

15. How Can You Make the Most of Class Notes?
Note-Taking Systems
Note Taking Is a Three-Step Process:
Prepare, Review, and Revise
Combine Class and Reading Notes into a Master Set

16. Choose a note-taking system
Outline
Cornell
Think Link
Text book margins
Others?

17. Understandthe Outline Process

18. Cornell Note-Taking

19. Think Link

20. A short story In groups, you will be assigned a note- taking style
Outline
Cornell Notes
Think Link
Listen to a story, it will NOT be repeated.
A short story

21. How Can You Take Notes Faster? Pg 191 Abbreviations/ Short-hand

22. Song quiz! I’ll follow you into the dark” Death Cab For Cutie
What did you NEED to know
Musical terminology – acoustic (not electronically amplified)
Literary analogy terminology – “theme” and “tone”
Lyrics of the song you heard ONCE
What could have helped you
Visual Aids – graphics?
Outline of the song
Knowing the terms in advance
Song quiz!

23. How Can You Improve Your Memory?
How Your Brain Remembers: Short- Term and Long-Term Memory
Memory Strategies Improve Recall
Use Mnemonic Devices

24. Physical process - Practice improves strength
Efficiency: Learning once and working to retain that memory takes far less time and energy than relearning over and over again.
Ex: learning to drive a car =- absorbs rules, use thinking skills to solve problems, make decisions, evaluate situations.
Those actions cannot take place on a regular basis without long-term retention of the initial details. You can't forget what a flashing red light means.

25. Three storage banks of memory
Sensory
Short term
Long term
How does the process of remembering relate to learning?
Does cramming work? Why/Why not?
What does work (that you've used before)?

26. Build Memory Skills Assigned Device (pgs 194-199) Mnemonic devices
Assigned Topic (from the chapters)
Mnemonic devices
Visual Images
Flash Cards
Think Link
Acronyms
Notes
Repeat/Rehearse/Recite
Songs/Rhymes
4 stages of listening process (Chpt 6)
Key time management strategies (chpt 2)
Stages of problem- solving (chpt 4)
Eight intelligences (chpt 3)
Build Memory Skills

27. Improving Recall Recite, rehearse, write.
Use note cards and other memory aids.
Create your own sample tests.
Study in a group.

28. Mental Walk

29. Thinking Successfully About Listening, Note Taking, and Memory
Analytical thinking – understand listening, note- taking, and memory
Creative thinking – think of new ways to listen, take notes, and memorize
Practical thinking – learn from experience and be realistic about how much you can memorize

30. lagom How would you apply this word to your life?
In Swedish, the word lagom refers to the place between extremes, the spot that is neither too much nor too little, but just right.
How would you apply this word to your life?

31. Psychiatrist and Author
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”
Theodore I. Rubin
Psychiatrist and Author

32. Portfolio 6
Planner 6
Chapter 6
Homework