Comments - Study Guides & Homework ... I Wonder - Classroom 2.02024-03-28T20:08:45Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=649749%3ABlogPost%3A253847&xn_auth=noThis blog is informative, vis…tag:www.classroom20.com,2009-01-21:649749:Comment:2684742009-01-21T07:45:24.444ZEileen Evanhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/EileenEvan
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I teach in a special education day treatment center. My students are emotionally impaired, so there's nothing in their diagnosis to say that they can't do the work, but for a variety of reasons they haven't done the work. I find, like Matt, that they don't know how to take good notes. I am very explicit with them on making their foldable notes and I check in frequently to make sure they are doing them correctly. Even that hasn't seemed to guarantee that they will learn from them or use them as…
I teach in a special education day treatment center. My students are emotionally impaired, so there's nothing in their diagnosis to say that they can't do the work, but for a variety of reasons they haven't done the work. I find, like Matt, that they don't know how to take good notes. I am very explicit with them on making their foldable notes and I check in frequently to make sure they are doing them correctly. Even that hasn't seemed to guarantee that they will learn from them or use them as reference, so next year (and for some classes, this year), I am going to give them a chance to practice referring back to their notes on a subsequent assignment. I'm also going to ask them to create a digital project that explains the content of the notes. We'll see if that helps.<br />
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The hands on aspect of making foldable notes is also good. Students who normally wouldn't attempt a note taking activity are better at foldables because the first step of the assignment isn't writing (it's folding and stapling), and because the notes are already organized for them. They don't have to decide what's important or how to organize things, they just have to figure exactly what to write. Thanks for sharing on my blog…tag:www.classroom20.com,2009-01-06:649749:Comment:2548892009-01-06T03:41:04.402ZAlan Beamhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/AlanBeam
Thanks for sharing on my blog about study guides. Your professor had an interesting approach to getting students to take notes. I could see how focus on developing the notes would assist students in understanding the material. You mention you are using foldable notes. I spent some time at the beginning of class showing how students take notes on the front of a page and then fold to cover what they wrote. Then they wrote questions related to the notes on the blank side showing. This way they…
Thanks for sharing on my blog about study guides. Your professor had an interesting approach to getting students to take notes. I could see how focus on developing the notes would assist students in understanding the material. You mention you are using foldable notes. I spent some time at the beginning of class showing how students take notes on the front of a page and then fold to cover what they wrote. Then they wrote questions related to the notes on the blank side showing. This way they could go back and quiz themselves. When in doubt just open the fold and see the notes. Is this the same method? Like to hear how your approach works.<br />
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I also have another challenge (which is a good challenge) but we have a 1 to 1 computer program for students. So students tend to use their computer to either type notes (which means they can print them out and do what i was talking about). But many of them just use the ppt I provide and type in the note section.<br />
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Anyway thats again for sharing look forward to hearing more of your ideas. That was a great idea.
In my…tag:www.classroom20.com,2009-01-06:649749:Comment:2548422009-01-06T03:10:51.521ZKate Fanellihttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/KateFanelli
That was a great idea.<br />
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In my experience, relevance is a much more powerful motivator than a grade, and you found a way to capture that. I remember my college statistics class because we were allowed to take in notes. It was a half a page of notes (as many as you could fit, so if you wrote small, you could take more notes in). For the second test it was a full page of notes, but the tests were cumulative, so it was smart to just keep your first set and add another half page for the new stuff.…
That was a great idea.<br />
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In my experience, relevance is a much more powerful motivator than a grade, and you found a way to capture that. I remember my college statistics class because we were allowed to take in notes. It was a half a page of notes (as many as you could fit, so if you wrote small, you could take more notes in). For the second test it was a full page of notes, but the tests were cumulative, so it was smart to just keep your first set and add another half page for the new stuff. By the 5th test, we had a lot of notes and a really great summary of the class.<br />
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Just making the notes was all I needed to study, but that was the whole point: to give focus to your studying and to give you a reward/incentive to study. I wasn't an education major at the time, but now as a teacher I realize how smart that approach was. As a student I just thought it was a really nice thing for our professor to let us do.<br />
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I'm requiring my high school students to make "foldable" notes (a note taking technique made famous by Dinah Zike). They can use these notes on their tests. I'm hoping for a similar effect that you got from your students and that my stats prof got from us.