Summarizing & Note Taking II

Amelia Elementary teachers respond via wallwisher to our Summarizing & Note Taking module at Friday's professional learning day.

As promised, here are the Summarizing & Note Taking links from the Voice Thread, and more:

Copy/Paste by Peter Pappas 
Pappas on Summarizing & Note Taking
Pappas on Taxonomy of Reflection

Robert Marzano Free Resources
Robert Marzano Meta-Analysis Database

Cornell note taking template

On Doodling here on TLC: Teaching. Learning. Community.

Janet Allen's Tools for Teaching Content Literacy (flip book)

We look forward to hearing your ideas about using these strategies in your classroom.

M.E.

Summarizing & Note Taking I

Making Thinking Visible

We can maximize our chances of making difficult content sticky if we broaden our definition of note taking.

Summarizing & Note Taking is one of Robert Marzano's high yield instructional strategies, with benefits for students of all ages and for all kinds of content (I like to say "from Kindergarten to Calculus").

Learn about this and more as you listen to the Voice Thread we created for West Clermont's February 26 Professional Learning Day to align with the Ohio Improvement Process and our school improvement plans.

Full screen version, click here.



With thanks to Superintendent Gary Brooks for the introduction and to education consultant Peter Pappas for adding comments to the Voice Thread. Pappas will be working with teachers and administrators in September 2010.

For links, click here.

M.E.

Similarities & Differences Part 1

In Classroom Instruction That Works (that is, real strategies for real learning) Robert Marzano's research shows that identifying similarities and differences is one of the most powerful thinking strategies we can teach. Helping students compare, classify, create metaphors and similies, and use analogies can boost student achievement up to 45 percentile points.

Tired of the ubiquitous Venn Diagram? Try these tech sites for a few fresh ideas:

1. Out on a Lim by Janice Lim, Michigan edtech expert
2. Analogix, an interactive site for older students
3. Similes and Metaphors on BrainPop (intermediate grades)


M.E.