Successful Students Take Notes
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Successful Students Take Notes
Successful students are always looking for ways to improve their study skills. One habit all successful students demonstrate is taking notes. Note- taking helps to monitor your reading and understanding of material. It does no good to take notes if you are unable to comprehend the material. There are many different techniques for note-taking. Not only can read and highlight, or write down notes, but they can use alternative strategies as well. The best note-taking strategy is different for every student. It is important to adjust your note-taking style to your learning style. One way to determine your learning style is to take the VARK
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They will lose perspective in a flood of highlighted text if they don’t practice some restraint when highlighting.
If reading and writing is not the best way for you to comprehend and retain information, perhaps alternative note-taking techniques will compliment your learning style. The aural learner can use podcasts, audio books, or read notes aloud while recording them to play back at a later time. Diagrams, charts, and video are good resources for a visual learner. All of the above mentioned strategies are complimentary to the kinesthetic learner. Kinesthetic learners benefit from using all of their senses. Video entertains sight and sound. Audio entertains sound and perhaps the kinesthetic learner could read along with the audio, mimic, or gesture and move about the room while listening. In 2001, with the use of the Study Habits Inventory( SHI; Jones and Slate 1994) there was a study conducted evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of study skills of a group of graduate students. They found that the method in which notes were taken was related to the understanding of the information the students were studying. According to those conducting the study, Onwuegbuzie, Slate, and Schwartz (2001), the more successful students were observed to do the following, “With respect to taking notes, the students tended to report that they used notebooks rather than loose paper. The students also were unlikely to use a tape recorder
They will write out steps or procedures of a process to retain the information. They also take notes and may rewrite the notes to memorize what was being written. This type of learner learns exactly by reading and writing. Learners with kinesthetic preferences require whole body movement and real life experiences to absorb and retain material to be learned. A kinesthetic learns best when they are involved in solving the problem. They like hands on approaches and learn by trial and error. This type of learner may make it difficult for a teacher to manage. A kinesthetic learner has to move in some kind of way in order for them to learn, this may make it difficult for the teacher to relay the information to the other students. Approximately five percent of the population picks things up through touch or
Results of the VARK self-assessment quiz indicated that I have a strong preference for kinesthetic and weak preference for Read-Write learning style. Second quiz for intelligence shows I have high percentage for Visual-Spatial and low for Rhythmic-Musical. Being a strong kinesthetic learner and with high Visual-Spatial intelligence, I will likely to teach by demonstration and less on reading and writing. Furthermore, I will have more hands-on and role-play and arts and crafts activities and less on reading and writing assignments. Create projects and activities in which all five senses (sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing) will be used. This style of teaching will benefit the kinesthetic learners with Visual-Spatial and Bodily-Kinesthetic
Through myriad lectures, I am finding that I learn best kinesthetically. Hands-on activities provide kinesthetic learners with a deeper understanding of material that they do not receive with lectures alone. Simply reading a textbook or following a power-point is great for note-taking, but I have found that notes are not enough for me. By actually doing, I benefit from practice, and the content is better stored in memory. Even with simple flashcards for memorizing vocabulary or historical dates, I will excel further than by skimming over a sheet of paper or by listening to the information repeatedly read aloud. If I achieve my goal of becoming a crime scene technician, my learning style will take me far because the job will require me to collect
A kinesthetic learner learns best by moving their bodies to activate their large or small muscles as they learn. This definitely fits me to the T. I never sit still; my hand and mouth have to be constantly moving in order for me to focus and retain any information. It also explains why my first grade teacher sent me home with multiple letters stating that I needed to be put on Ritalin. But that’s not all. I also learned from
By listening to the teacher and understanding what is teacher asking me to do, helped me to become a better learner. This is the way I used to get better on collecting notes.
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During a lecture I often times will catch myself doodling on my paper when I should be taking notes. I often will remember the “real” things that happen. VARK helps recognize what will help different people with their different learning styles. VARK offers the SWOT – Study without tears as an example. They suggest converting your “notes” into a learnable package by reducing them. VARK suggests that your lecture notes maybe poor because the topics were
This student’s preferred learning strategy compared to the learning strategy provided by V.A.R.K. is almost identical. The learning strategies that have been used throughout her education have always netted good results, which is evident by her grades. In the past other students have commented about her learning style and the amount of time spent on note taking, outlines, and writing out note cards, but she has perfected this process for her learning style.
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There is of course also the issue of a different class style to grow accustomed to. It stands to reason that my strategies for taking notes during lectures would need work as lectures will become a commonality for me as a college student. The book mentions using the note taking process that works best for an individual and does not attempt to assign the label of best to any of the methods listed, because ideas are tools after all. The book also mentions the importance of each step of the note taking process and this seems to be where the most work is needed for me. At times certain steps are skimmed over and a greater attention to detail could assist me with learning more from my notes, and this is perhaps the biggest thing that can be taken from the book, and it does apply solely to note taking
Learning styles describe the way in which an individual or student uses different methods in the way they acquire, scrutinize, understand and remember knowledge or information (Kharb, 2013). The VARK questionnaire is a tool through which one can identify his/her learning style and is based on how individuals interact and respond to their learning environment. After undertaking the questionnaire, the scores for visual learning was 10, kinesthetic was 12, Aural was 10 and read/write was 16. The preferred learning style was, therefore, determined to be Multimodal which means that multiple strategies can be in cooperated to enable sufficient learning. Read/Write had the highest score followed closely by kinesthetic, aural and visual. This implies that the adequate strategy to acquire and convey information or knowledge is through printed or written words. With Kinesthetic having the second highest score, it shows that learning is also adequate through gaining experience and engaging in practical activities or processes that give real-life examples. Visual and Aural strategies had the same score meaning that learning can also be achieved through presentations in visual formats, drawings or diagrams as well as observations and taking of verbal instructions or listening.
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As a visual learner they would try to take notes during the lecture, would color code their notes, and pay attention to any visual aids that were being used. Where a kinesthetic learner would ask questions and participate in discussions, take a laptop for notes so that they are doing something actively with their hands during lectures, consider taking a three hour class versus one three hour class, Student Development Centre (2009). As a multimodal learner, it is easier to learn when doing more than just reading a textbook as it harder to understand than when doing something that is interactive.
Taking notes is great ways of helping one identify important concepts for future reference. Even if one has a great memory, they won't be able to remember everything that the that they hear or read, unless one has a permanent written record for their reference (Lombardi, 2012). There are several different ways in which a person can take notes. Three of these ways are Keyword Note-taking, Linear Note-taking and Time Lines.
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