Listening & Note Taking

1. Listening & Note Taking Created by: Curtis McKague Learning Skills Advisor Conestoga College

2. What is your lecture strategy? • Consider the following • Answer “yes” or “no”

3. Making the Best of Lecture Time

4. 1. Prepare for class (3 steps) • Review class notes • Read textbook • Do practice problems

5. 2. Attend your classes! to Get your

6. Showing up to class is not enough!

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

8. 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? 3. Active Listening

9. Barriers to Effective Listening

10. 1. Tuning out? • Heard it before • Difficult • Preoccupied • Tired • Bored • Differing opinions

11. Strategy? Become engaged! • Question yourself • Question the instructor • Find relevance • Make info personal

12. 2. Distractions? How to deal? • Internal • External

13. Do not relax Take care of distractions Listen for main ideas Listen before taking notes Anticipate direction of lecture Learn to listen to difficult material and/or teachers Practice listening Best Listening Habits

14. Note-Taking

15. 5 R’s of Note-taking • Record • Reflect • Reduce • Recite • Review

16. Cornell Method Lesson Title DATE Page #

17. Efficient and Effective Notes • Thorough = all main ideas • Concise • Visually appealing • Clear connections • Legible handwriting • Symbols and abbreviations

18. Use Pictures

19. Income Farm business Influences Marketing Tobacco growers Tobacco companies Teens Profit/ loss Health concerns Smoking pollution The environment Concerns for children Adults Landfill issues Influences Health concerns

20. Note-taking = Dictation • Note-taking: writing complete ideas • Dictation: writing complete sentences

21. Examples Dictation: History 1002 meets 2 days a week from 10:00 am to 10:50 am. Notes: Hist 1002 - 2 d/wk 10 – 11 am

22. 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.

23. Use headings and space. Gas Use -Factors EuropeU.S Less good hwys More $$ cheap gas More trains auto ind. +pub transp. oil comp.

24. Use: • CAPITAL LETTERS BOXES • underline

25. Use Symbols and Abbreviations Mr = !& bc Mrs % w/ ‹ pop › & #  w/o x dec inc

26. Get the BIG PICTURE! What’s the speaker’s main point? What does s/he want you to learn?

27. Now let’s change sentences into ideas . . .

28. 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.

29. WW literacy rates - ~ 80% of world pop, 15+ yrs = literate - more women now

30. 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.

31. 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)

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

33. Extra Help The LBCC Learning Center