2. What Strategies Work For You?
THINK - PAIR - SHARE

3. Important considerations
Be open to variety
Different strategies for learning styles
Different strategies for circumstances
Be flexible to teacher requirements

4. Guided Notes Advantages: Disadvantages: Teacher prep/ time
Key facts, concepts, and relationships during the lecture
Helps to keep your notes organized
You can still add in your own words to help you study
Looks different in each class:
Math/Science
English/Social Studies
Art/Music/Technology
Library!
Disadvantages:
Teacher prep/ time

5. Guided notes Math

6. Guided Notes ELA

7. Guided Notes - Research

8. Being an Active Note Taker
Evaluate and highlight
Look for connections
Place notes in your own words
Think about the content
Ask clarifying questions
Active note taking yields insight… original thinking!
Active note taking… better study material… better results

9. Basic Class Notes Write down key words and phrases
Don’t write every single word
Leave space to fill in details later
Legibility!

10. Teacher Styles – How Do I Know What’s Important?
Repetition of words/ ideas
Use of different term for same concept (complexity)
Use of visuals
Cadence – slow v. fast
Volume – more quietly OR loudly!
Pauses – dramatic effect
Cues: “remember…” “here are…” “now notice that…”

12. Graphic Organizers Visual note taking Topic list
Nonfiction
Reference
Narrative history
Poetry
Biography
Visual note taking
Topic list
Mapping big ideas/ Word Web
Compare/contrast
Cause/ effect

15. Independently Sticky notes to mark specific words or sections
Annotate the reading
Outline
Explain the information in your own words to someone
Utilize other available information

16. Beyond class notes – Cement your Classroom Knowledge
Library resources
Textbooks
Online
Web sites
Office hours
Your Turn

18. Important considerations
Be open to variety
Different strategies for learning styles
Different strategies for circumstances
Be flexible to teacher requirements