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How does one teach note taking? Note taking came as easy to me as breathing, so I didn't give teaching it much thought. I guess I thought it would be genetic or something  Bad mommy...
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Hi, Victoria...how are you? I've been missing you  .
The only note taking that dd is currently practicing is based on Susan Wise Bauer's, The Well Educated Mind. As dd reads her literature, she takes notes...pretty much a summary sentence for each chapter of her first read.
I would be interested in what others do for note-taking, especially in a lecture setting since we don't lecture here (well, I monologue in desperate mothering situations which isn't the same thing .) I'm wondering, if we could practice this type of note taking while watching her history movies...
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Sarah would watch a taped show -- like a documentary from the library. And she would take notes during. Then she would watch again -- checking that she actually hit on main points.
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Are there any open lectures you can attend? Sometimes the colleges have public lectures, and the kids can go and take notes along with me, so we can compare strategies.
Next week we will see Peter Kreeft speak on Lewis  ; notebooks required. 
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As for "how-to", the Cornell Notetaking system is useful.
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Something you can do similarly is take the notes and then go back and underline or highlight the key points. But the Cornell system of writing the main ideas on the left column while you're studying really works for me visually.
When I took notes in my high school, my teachers modelled it for us with gradually increasing difficulty. For example, my history teacher would write down the main points on the blackboard and we'd fill in a couple of details in our notes. However, I've never been able to find time to do this kind of teaching for my kids, so I usually just give them some online handouts on study skills and notetaking. ALmost every online college site has some sort of how to study packet.
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Angie Mc wrote:
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Too funny, Angie.
I'm starting to teach some note taking -- I hadn't thought that much about it, either, Victoria. Like you, it came naturally to me and I assumed my kids would just get the gene. 
We belong to a 4-H group, and my 10yo is the secretary. The first couple of meetings, I sat next to her and took my own notes, then we compared. This has been a good start, and I then told my 13 yo I wanted her taking notes during the business part of the 4-H meeting as well.
I think this same method would work well for the history videos you mentioned, Angie. Do it with her a couple of times, to teach about what you're looking for, and she'll probably take off on her own after that.
I like the samples you linked to, too, Willa. Thanks!
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MacBeth wrote:
Next week we will see Peter Kreeft speak on Lewis ; notebooks required. |
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Ah, I'm jealous!! Enjoy!
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Thank you, everyone. Some good ideas. We ARE listening to a taped lecture and ds's notes are cryptic at best. So I'm finding that simply doing it (note taking) isn't enough to learn how to do it.
Ds did remind me that there is a short bit about note taking in IEWs Intensive Writing course. We re-watched it yesterday. Andrew Pudewa says to write what is important or interesting and not to write too much. Then he gives a statistic that one can retain 80% more of a lesson if one goes and speaks about it to someone else. Are you thinking what I'm thinking: narration!! Miss Mason would be proud!
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We have used mind mapping ideas. Last year we watched a weekly, for schools, current affairs proramme and used the mind maps/note taking during and after the programme.
Very helpful for us wrt note taking...
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Andrew Pudewa's IEW course teaches the children to take notes from what they are reading by using keywords. They take three keywords from each sentence. He then has them go back and see if they can then remember what they had read by the notes they take.
I used it with a class of 4th-5th graders last year and was very pleased with the results.
That said, my 10th grader has no idea how to take notes, highlight a text, etc. He still isn't quite convinced of the necessity of it yet, but he is getting there.
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We have used the Teaching Company lectures for World History, and for American History. When they listen to the lectures, they take notes from them so they can learn note taking from lectures. It's worked quite well, because it also reinforces the lesson and what they're hearing.
I've also had them take notes from their Saxon DIVE CDs as well for Math, so they can learn how to take math notes, and so they have them to look back at.
So far, this has been a good technique for us.
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