Note-Taking Skills: Visual Brain Doodles!

📒Unlock the power of visual note-taking in this engaging online class! Students will learn a step-by-step approach to creating notes with simple sketches, doodles, and pictures—turning complex topics into easy-to-remember visuals. This creative method simplifies the learning process, helping students build a strong study skills toolbox they can use through middle and high school. No drawing experience is required for this class.  
☆Class is especially helpful for Dyslexic, Dysgraphic, and Neurodivergent learners!

📋 Staying organized while taking notes is just as important as note-taking itself.  This skill is often overlooked in those "middle school" years.  Practicing this method of "Note-Taking" can guide a student who prefers "pictures" over words. Visual note-taking provides the foundation for building one's memory of new material. 
 
👉We will begin by talking about how to organize our thoughts and ideas. Students will brainstorm with guidance and understand the significance of taking notes and our various learning preferences.  All topic areas below will be overlapping concepts learned to assist learners in implementing this note-taking method.

The additional topics we will progress and explore are listed below:
♦️What are Brain Doodles: Ideas, Fun, Imaginative, Creative, Colorful...
♦️Steps to Brain Doodles: Materials, Title, Diagrams, Drawing, Writing, Bullets, and Icons
♦️Things to Remember: Text, Images, Structure, Table Chart, and Topography (How our font looks and feels)
♦️Application: We will practice together as we create our Brain Doodles.

Exploration, discovery, and simply enjoying their own note-taking style are key to successful implementation! We will practice these newly learned concepts in class weekly. Students can periodically share their "Brain Doodles" as they are working on them in class. *This is optional for feedback and incorporating the new concepts.

🔍Students will discover how to incorporate "Brain Doodles" into their studies and interests of choice at home. 

  ~All optional assignments will be posted in the classroom and also be discussed at the end of each class meeting.