THOUGHTFUL CLASSROOM PROFESSIONAL LEARNING SUITES

A Professional Learning Suite

Moving From Note Taking to Note Making

Tools and strategies that will help you empower your students to become active note makers and effective summarizers

Featuring Dr. Harvey Silver, today’s leading expert on instructional tools and strategies

Making Good Notes Is Essential to Academic Success

Unfortunately, in too many classrooms, making notes involves little more than copying what the teacher writes or says. We call this note taking. Note making is something else entirely. It is an active process that requires students to identify important details, analyze big ideas, raise questions, note personal reactions and feelings, and make connections to their prior knowledge and experiences.

This professional learning suite will help you help your student become expert note makers who can actively process what they are learning and turn their thinking into powerful notes and summaries.

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What Tools And Strategies Will I Find In This Suite?

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Note Making Tools

Window Notes: Helps students see notes as powerful and personal records of learning
Math Notes: Teaches students how to analyze and solve word problems
Interactive Note Making: Uses the power of notes to improve reading comprehension
Three Ways of Webbing: Helps students see the relationships between big ideas and details
Split Screen: Combines the verbal and visual to enhance students’ meaning-making skills
S-O-S Graphic Organizers: Teaches students how to use organizers to collect critical information

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Summarizing Tools

4-2-1 Summarize: Uses the power of collaboration to improve both note-making and summarizing skills
AWESOME Summaries: Uses the AWESOME acronym to help students internalize the process for making great summaries

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PLUS:

Practical resources to help teachers and PLCs plan, reflect, and analyze student work.

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“These on-demand suites empower both instructional leaders and teachers to use tools and strategies to improve instruction, engage students in deeper learning, and customize each teacher’s own professional growth path.”

Mary Belcher

Instructional Lead and Learning Acceleration Specialist,

Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) • Hazard, KY

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Mary Belcher

Instructional Lead and Learning Acceleration Specialist,

Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) • Hazard, KY

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