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Listening & Note TakingListening & Note Taking

Created by: Professor MinnisEnglish 1ADelta College

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What is your lecture strategy?

Consider the following

Answer “yes” or “no”

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Making the Best of Lecture Time

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1. Prepare for class (3 steps)

a) Review class notes

b) Read textbook

c) Do practice problems

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2. Attend your classes!

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Showing up to class is not enough!

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Want to know a secret on how to make good class notes?

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3. Active Listening

Intend to listen Concentrate = effort Develop interest/relevance Ask Qs (yourself and

teacher): What’s the point? How does this new info relate to you

and past info? Is this true? Why?

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Barriers to Effective Listening

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1. Tuning out?

Heard it before Difficult Preoccupied Tired Bored Differing opinions

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Strategy? Become engaged!

Question yourself Question the instructor Find relevance Make info personal

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2. Distractions? How to deal?

Internal External

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Best Listening Habits

Do not relaxTake care of

distractionsListen for main

ideasListen before

taking notes

Anticipate direction of lecture

Learn to listen to difficult material and/or teachers

Practice listening

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Note-Taking

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5 R’s of Note-taking

Record Reflect Reduce Recite Review

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Cornell Method

Reduce to key words for review

In class notes

Subject: History of Science, April 25, 2002

Vaccination – History and Significance

Vaccination – Definition? Function? Origin?

Turkey = ingrafting

1717 Lady M.W. Montagu

Inoculation with a vaccine in order to protect against a

particular disease.

Originated in Turkey – called ingrafting

Relayed to Britain 1717 by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

DATE

Page #

Lesson Title

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Efficient and Effective Notes

Thorough = all main ideasConciseVisually appealingClear connectionsLegible handwritingSymbols and abbreviations

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Use Pictures

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Smoking

Teens

Adults

The environment

Tobacco companies

Influences

Health concerns

Concerns for children

Health concerns

Influences

Landfillissues

pollution

Profit/ loss

MarketingTobaccogrowers

Income Farm business

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Note-taking = Dictation

• Note-taking: writing complete ideas

• Dictation: writing complete sentences

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Dictation:

Examples

History 1002 meets 2 days a week from 10:00 am to 10:50 am.

Hist 1002 - 2 d/wk 10 – 11 am

Notes:

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Take notes:

Keys to green env.

1- ed. public

2- inc. tech.

3- recycle

Three keys to green environment – educate public, improve techno., and help increase demand for recycling.

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Use headings and space.

Gas Use -Factors

Europe U.S

Less good hwys More $$ cheap gas More trains auto ind. +pub transp. oil comp.

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Use:

• CAPITAL LETTERS

BOXES

• underline

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Use Symbols and AbbreviationsMr = ! & bcMrs %

w/ ‹

pop ›

& # w/o x

dec inc

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Get the BIG PICTURE!

What’s the speaker’s main point?What does s/he want you to learn?

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Now let’s change sentences into ideas . . .

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Change dictation into notes:

Studies on worldwide literacy rates show that almost 80 percent of the world’s population over the age of 15 is now literate. This includes more women than ever before.

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WW literacy rates

- ~ 80% of world pop, 15+ yrs = literate

- more women now

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Make lecture notes: “IQ Tests”

There are many types of IQ tests, some better than others. These tests are given by licensed psychologists who receive special training in how to administer the tests and interpret results. IQ tests can be given from two years of age through adulthood, with most children taking them from ages five through twelve. Many IQ tests today are biased toward mathematical, logical, and linguistic forms of reasoning rather than creative and spatially-oriented types of reasoning.

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Make lecture notes: “IQ Tests”

IQ Tests-given by psych. (training: test and interpret)

-2 yrs < IQ < adult; typically = 5 yrs < IQ < 12 yrs

-biased! (math, logic, language)

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Remember Use:

• Key words * Rewrite notes• Space• Headings * Practice!• Abbrev. & • Get big picture