Taking Effective Notes
- writing down idea and reading in own words.
Why take notes?
- Helps us to pay attention
- Helps us to study
- Helps us to improve our memory
- Helps us to take ownership of idea
- Helps us to engage our senses
- Helps us to organize and process data
Why review notes?
- We lose 80% of what we hear if it isnot reviewed within a few hours.
- Identity any questions
- Not enough time to absorb all
Take time EVERYDAY to Review NOTE
Before class
- Review notes from the day before
- Write the date at the top of your paper for notes
How do we take notes?
- Date and label notes
-Give ourselve space to write
- Use abbreviations and symbols
- Use an outline to show
- Supports
- Examples
- Use your own language
- Useful Abbreviations
How do we prepare for class?
- Do pre-reading and homework
- Review syllabus
- Preview previous notes
- Look up key words
- Plan on listening 80% of the time
- Write the date at the top of your paper
- Leave a space to write later info
While taking notes
- Be an aggressive, not a passive, listener
- Be an active listener
- Ask questions
Preparing and Reviewing BEFORE lecture even starts !
- Search more info from internet for us to more understanding with something subject
- Easy to understand in class
Key actions to note as you OBSERVE
- Be alert to repetition
- when lecturer repeats specific point, make a note of it - Watch the board / overhead
- lecturer write something, the material is important
- Notice the lecturer interest level
- lecturer is excited about something, it is likely will out in exam
2) Outlining Note Taking
3) Mapping
4) 2 Column
How do we review after class.
- Review notes a long with the book
- Create our own example
- Discuss & compare notes with other
- Practice those skills you wish to develop
- Ask professor
Remember SQ4R
- Survey - overview, quickly scan
- Question - establish a purpose
- Read - to answer question
- Rite - take note
- Review - quiz yourself
- Recite - memorize and understand
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