KU Listening and Note Taking Strategy - SIM

Strategic Instruction Model - Listening and Notetaking During lectures. I still like the idea of WIN for reading independently.

**how will it play out - who is responsible for teaching the strategies? Each teacher should spend time at the beginning of the 1st semester and 2nd semester and throughout as needed. Students will be able to sit with science and social studies for example, be taught the same strategy, same information, with different content. This strategy has two components - how to take notes and how to use them to study.

Teacher organization - take the book apart so that it is easier to go through; allow short processing time after about 20 minutes stop for 2 minutes - students catch up, go back and finish words, etc.

How to take notes - A student should be able to use the teacher's mannerism, organization, and emphasis cues to realize the points the teacher believes to be important.  Teachers need to be sure to develop their discussion techniques - using special emphasis words, mannerism and organizational tools while discussing topics. NOTeS strategy is designed to be used for notetaking during classtime. GRADE is designed to be used to study their notes  -- cramming v. spacing out learning.

After reading so much about student centered and flipped classrooms - this should be used to teach the basic strategies, not as a daily lessons or to use during the lecture/discussion. All students should be taught the strategy and emphasized at the start of each semesters; once it is evident that all students have these skills (80% of the students identifying 80% of the cues), the more specific training should be used for interventions. Another place I see this strategy to be useful in my classroom is during the "N" part of my WIN strategy -- teaching them how to take their individual notes and abbreviations. Making the connection of taking notes to texting - relate the idea to taking notes -- Twitter accounts or texting the abbreviation to each other or myself -- practice abbreviating.

Notetaking makes a stronger memory because many modalities are used. Explain this to the students that more modalities that you use it is hard to break the learning process. The absolute importance of staying organized - each content has their own space in the divided notebook; make a push to keep 7th grade notebooks in the room over the summer for 8th grade. Same with history for government class; this would reduce the amount of time spent on foundations of America.


Connection with PLC -

Connection with RTI -

Connection with what I am trying to teach them through ICC -