How do you all have your students take notes? I guess a question could be: how do your students take notes? I have tried almost all the strategies that I can think of, and if I am honest, it is an area in my teaching where I still feel I am trying to find my way. At the beginning of the year, I typically go over several different types of notetaking strategies, such as Cornell notes, outline notes, and mind maps. However, when I check my students ' notebooks, I notice that their notes are mostly a mess without any strategies employed. I have tried to give them fill-in-the-blank notes, but then they seem to check out of the discussion, and I am currently using digital notebooks that we complete together, and then I quiz on the next day, which seems to have increased their test scores. So is notetaking dead?
