Mastering Effective Note-taking & Researching Skills

This on-going course will help students with all things note-taking and researching. The classroom will be very interactive and activity-based and I will provide a lesson framework for each class with a different topic. Students will be able to apply what they learn to their own personal studies and classes.

We will tackle many different areas of note-taking including summarizing, picking out significant details in note-taking, learning how to shrink your notes, using your notes to study, organization and color, how to utilize graphic organizers, research skills, and avoiding plagiarism. Each class will present a new strategy and practice with that strategy.

Week One: Main Ideas in Notetaking
Week Two: Sketchnoting
Week Three: Coding Your Text
Week Four: Mindmapping
Week Five: Shorthand & Quicknotes
Week Six: Taking Notes for a Research Project
Week Seven: How to Set Up a Writer's Notebook
Week Eight: Shrinking Down Your Notes
Week Nine: Using Color in Your Notes
Week Ten: Post-It Notes in Notetaking
Week Eleven: Cornell Notes