uh...
todays workshop is called taking better lecture notes in just a quick uh... word
about the one next week it's called how to predict test questions
this is the first one of five workshops in a row i think it is that all have
that
terrible "T" word in it which is test or tests
so it's kind of a long series in how to become a great test taker which always
helps so that's uh... what's coming up next week
now i wanted to ask everybody a question before we start and uh... again
participation is welcome in these workshops
we're talking about taking notes while teachers are lecturing today so my
question is
kind of a simple one but i don't know if you've ever thought of this
why is it important or helpful for you to take notes
while a teacher is talking
what's the whole point of even doing that
to remember
yeah uh... one of the things that is the simplist way i can describe it is
you wanna take notes so that you don't have to rely on your memory
later on
you could be a fantastic listener and you can concentrate really well on the
teacher but unless you have an amazing ability to remember that
two or three or four weeks later when you're studying for a test on that
material
uh... it's almost impossible to remember what a teacher said
that's why you want to rely on your notes and if your notes are good and
they're complete and you can
study a lot from them
you should do better as a result
uh... the class that i teach
which is learn eleven a study skills course
my students are required on every test among other things
to do a
short writing probably less than a page where they describe in detail
something that i've taught them in class kind of like their teaching it back to
me
and very often amazingly often especially early in the semester
i get a student who writes as their answer
i don't remember
and how many points do they get for that
uh...
the big zero right and so what they're basically saying is
i was there that day it's like three weeks ago i remember
what you were talking about even remember what you were wearing
but i can't quite remember what you said and they're trying to actually go back
and remember
that's dangerous
so that's why you write it in your notes so that you can go over it and over it and
when the test comes it's still fresh in your mind that's the goal okay
so uh... as i mentioned a few minutes ago i'm gonna give you a handout that
uh... is sort of a a outline of what i'm gonna talk about hopefully i'll be able
to get all the way through this
today there's always a lot that i would love to share
never enough time so
i'll just go ahead and sort of give you a
but you can kind of pass that back
if there are extras back there you can just hold on to them and i'll get 'em at
the end and actually let me put some here
case people show up late
okay so in order to take better lecture notes uh... there are seven things
listed here uh... couple of little sub points so this will hopefully be easy for
you to follow uh...