For example, I saw a great presentation at the AVID conference about encouraging students to be creative with their notes. A student used their notes as a canvas to create original little pieces of art that connected to their notes. I love that idea! Now, everyone is not interested in art the same way, but what other ways have you used to engage your students in note taking?
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What instructional practices have worked well in the past to engage your students in note taking.
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I'm very old school apparently - I try to introduce the idea of Cornell Notes early on and to give students at least 1-2 lessons a week where they try it out in their notebooks. I fear that with all of our emphasis, as a profession, on group work, collaboration and the like - compounded with students' reliance on smartphones - that this type of notetaking will become something of a lost art. Not if I can do something about i! :) I do allow them to draw pictures and the like, but that's not the emphasis - it's more on how the student lerans to synthesize information.
I know some other folks including Todd Nussen and Meaghan Mihalic have some nifty methods including sketch notes that they use with students.
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I use a protocol called CEC notes. I didn't make it up, and can't even tell you where it comes from. But Connect, Extend, Challenge is what it stands for, and the way students write in each column helps them see the difference and connection between the facts and their thoughts and opinions. By the way, I use this with 9th graders.
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I like this format, thanks for sharing. I really like the idea of putting a link to a sample page in the directions. I'm sure it helps kids see what they are up to.
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I think this comes from Project Zero Bryan Dibble . It's a great resource, and it also connected pretty well to the third read in Three Close Reads. I can see the similarity in the prompts being helpful to students!
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Wow Lisa Meyers I really like this! I really like the idea that they are jotting information and then working backward to determine the question!
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I use quite a bit of variety with notetaking, but I use A LOT of tables for digital notetaking. I do have a folder with lined paper that lives in my classroom that is used for notes. Just last week, students used the folders to take notes about time including creating a timeline to show AD/CE and BC/BCE. It felt more conducive to take notes by hand. When they did History of me, many wanted to draw little sketches and images and do it in a timeline format, so that was also by hand.
It feels like digital is being increasingly forced upon us, and each year, I have more and more students who have accommodation plans that require a voice-to-text, ignore spelling, use the computer for notes, etc., and it feels like I'm losing the ability to use notes by hand.
