First I want to thank you all for your feedback after our session during PD week. We are hoping to make this a successful year using some awesome WICOR strategies. This month is focused notes and if you have an awesome example we can feature, please let us know soon so we can come by and check it out!
Focused Notes can take many shapes and forms in the classroom. The elements of summary, questioning, and reflection are the key elements of making them effective study tools and students need an opportunity to return to them using the 10-24-7 model. An interactive notebook is a great way to accomplish this return to material in a concise way. Our examples below for this week are from Michael Netherland using the method in Algebra II and Kayla Livingston using a copy of class notes in Special Education English 1.
"The main part I am trying to get through to my students in note-taking is recall. I am trying to stress to them to pull out and look back at your notes. In order to stress this I have daily warmups that I heavily suggest are written in their notes that cover the topic for that warm up. We always go over our warmups together and refer back to the notes over them to help solve them. I try to make sure we are pulling out notes from the day before, as well as ones from about 3-7 days before. This is to help follow that 10-24-7 rule. The pictures here are from one student who volunteered to let me use her notes as examples. She does not use Cornell notes, but you can see they have a Cornell style idea in them. In our next issue I will show you some more examples of students who do use our Cornell template." -Michael Netherland
"My students receive a copy of most notes we get so I wanted to create a way they are still engaging with them. We not only mark and summarize our notes after, but we also evaluate each days learning target with a different formative assessment where they can use their notes as a reference (review them)" -Kayla Livingston
Excited to see where this goes the rest of the year and hope to see your examples soon!..
-AVID PD Team
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