Wow, first I want to start off with saying that this chapter was extremely interesting to me. I got a late start at this assignment due to family obligations, but much to my surprise I enjoyed reading the chapter and found myself really engaging in the information. Often times I found myself relating the instruction of note taking to my mentor teacher at Oak Grove. She does a great job of teaching her students in her math class to follow along with her notes and to take them out and use them as well. I believe it is important that teachers begin teaching students how to take notes early on. My mentor teacher teaches at the 5th grade level, even though she helps them a lot throughout their note taking process, she is still teaching them responsibility. I found it interesting how she helps them, but when they begin to ask her questions on a specific subject she instructs them to refer back to their composition notebooks (where their notes are located) to find information they covered previously. By instructing students to take notes, it encourages them to learn while the teacher is lecturing or while they are reading. More times than none it takes a student a while to find their own personal style of note-taking, but by being encouraged to take notes and exploring the different ways from the teacher will only speed up the process.
Questions:
1. You can only do so much as an instructor to help your students with their note taking or making skills, as a future special educator what are other ways a student can retain and focus on information if note taking is not their thing?
2. Another question is how early is it recommended that teachers begin teaching students specific note taking skills should be implemented?
