{"id":880,"date":"2017-02-09T15:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T21:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/?p=880"},"modified":"2019-09-10T17:56:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T23:56:37","slug":"sip-5-4-guided-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/sip-5-4-guided-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"SIP 5.4 Guided Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2017\/02\/tumblr_inline_nfu2f0iOMv1snxard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"334\" \/>Lecture is one of the most widely used methods of instruction in the higher education setting. \u00a0When lecture is the main mode of instruction, we often wonder just how much students are comprehending and retaining. \u00a0As mentioned in last week\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/sip-5-3-how-to-teach-note-taking-skills\/\"><u>SIP 5.3 How to Teach Note-Taking Skills<\/u><\/a>, it can be disheartening to spend hours lecturing only to find just a few students actually writing down any information. \u00a0And even more disheartening when you present questions about the content and there are conflicting responses because students wrote down different and\/or incorrect information. What can be done to address this concern?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Take a SIP of This: Using Guided Notes in your Classroom<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ada.osu.edu\/resources\/fastfacts\/Guided-Notes-Fact-Sheet.pdf\">Research has shown<\/a><\/span> that students who take accurate notes and study them later consistently receive higher test scores than students who only listen to the lecture and read the text. \u00a0Guided Notes are teacher-prepared handouts that outline or map lectures, but leave &#8220;blank&#8221; spaces for key concepts, facts and definitions. During the lecture, the student fills in the spaces with content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Reasons to use Guided Notes:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Help professors prioritize content and organization of notes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Engages students and increases academic achievement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Students tend to receive higher tests and quiz scores.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Assists students in identifying critical information.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Can serve as an advanced organizer for students (good for visual learners).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Help professors prioritize and limit lecture content.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Levels the playing field for students who many struggle with taking notes during class.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">How to create Guided Notes:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Identify the most important course content that students must learn and retain via lecture.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Remember to keep the information simple and concise.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Delete the key facts, concepts, and relationships from the lecture outline, leaving the remaining information to provide structure and context for students\u2019 notetaking.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Insert formatting cues such as asterisks, lines, and bullets to show students where, when, and how many facts or concepts to write.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Use presentation software to project key content. PowerPoint (and similar apps) have a \u201cnotes\u201d feature that makes is easy to convert from PowerPoint to a Word document.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Leave enough space for students to write.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Consider inserting diagrams, illustrations, photos, highlighted statements or concepts that are particularly important and resources connected to the lecture.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Insert questions or practice problems to give students additional opportunities to respond and receive instructor feedback during the lecture.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Make Guided Notes available to students via Blackboard.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Still Thirsty? Take Another SIP of Using Guided Notes in your Classroom<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">More tips and examples of how you can incorporate Guided Notes in your lectures:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Research on using Guided Notes at the university level: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/41824287?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents\">Austin et al. (2002) Effects of Guided Notes on University Students <em>Journal of Behavioral Education <\/em>Vol 11, No 4<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studygs.net\/guidednotes.htm\"><u>Study Guides &amp; Strategies &#8211; Guided Notes: a system of learning within lecture<\/u><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interventioncentral.org\/academic-interventions\/study-organization\/guided-notes-increasing-student-engagement-during-lecture-\">Guided Notes: Increasing Student Engagement During Lecture and Assigned Readings<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org\/departments\/hiat\/tech_quick_guides\/guided_notes.pdf\">Creating Guided Notes<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Lecture is one of the most widely used methods of instruction in the higher education setting. \u00a0When lecture is the main mode of instruction, we often wonder just how much students are comprehending and retaining. \u00a0As mentioned in last week\u2019s SIP 5.3 How to Teach Note-Taking Skills, it can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/sip-5-4-guided-notes\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[52,58,51,2],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sip-post","tag-communicating-with-students","tag-course-materials","tag-culturally-responsive-teaching","tag-notetaking","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}