I love taking notes. It’s sometimes the only thing keeping me from drooling all over my desk. I am better able to stay energized and focused when I am writing down what my professor is saying, or making quick comments about my own thoughts. When I first began graduate school, it took me a while to get used to taking notes of what OTHER STUDENTS say in class. In my seminar\/workshop classes, I learned to value my peer’s statements as much as I valued my professor’s.<\/p>\n
When I look out and see my students doodling in their notebooks, I want to give them the benefit of the doubt. I was a chronic doodler all throughout undergraduate school and it helped me focus when I was in danger of zoning out. However, as an instructor, I get a sinking feeling when I see their spirals and line tracings. When they do take notes, it is often on due dates (which they are inevitably confused about anyway) or the occasional class discussion. I prompt them to take notes, but without specific instructions on how to do this allusive activity, I fear they are not getting the most out of this useful process.<\/p>\n
In\u00a0The Chronicle of Higher Education,\u00a0<\/em>George Williams posted an article entitled, “Do Your Students Take Good Notes.” He includes several helpful articles about the note-taking process and how professors can facilitate activities to spur students on. He asks several helpful questions: “What do you do in your teaching to facilitate effective note-taking by your students? Do you have specific assignments that involve students\u2019 notes? Do you lecture or facilitate discussions in ways that make note-taking easier?” (Williams).<\/p>\n I want to structure my classes in a note-taking-friendly way. A useful tactic I pulled from this article was to ask students during their one-on-one conference whether they had anything helpful in their notes when brainstorming.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/blogs\/profhacker\/do-your-students-take-good-notes\/62864<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love taking notes. It’s sometimes the only thing keeping me from drooling all over my desk. I am better able to stay energized and focused when I am writing down what my professor is saying, or making quick comments about my own thoughts. When I first began graduate school, it took me a while […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/6925\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/6925\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/6925\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/6925\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/6925\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/6925\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/6925\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/6925\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/6925\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}