Study Skills and Organizational Skills for Success Cornell

Study Skills and Organizational Skills for Success!

Cornell Notes • Cornell Notes System is a note-taking system created in the 1950’s by Walter Pauk, a professor at Cornell University. • It provides a tool for organizing your notes. • For Cornell Notes, you will use two columns. One to write notes and the other for key words and questions. • You will learn to summarize, review and reflect on your notes. • Let’s get started!

Cornell Notes 1. Set up your paper 2. Take the notes 3. Apply your thinking to the notes 4. Reflect on and Review your notes

Set Up Your Paper Step 1: Create Lines

Set Up Your Paper Topic: Organizational, Study Skills and Learning Skills Questions/Main Idea Notes Summary Name: Class: Period: Date: Notes

Take Notes Topic: Organizational, Study Skills and Learning Skills Questions/Main Ideas While the teacher lectures, while you watch a film, or while you read a text: • Write on the right hand side of the page • Abbreviate • Paraphrase • Use symbols to highlight what is important, or unclear, or to make connections. • Skip lines between ideas Summary Name: Class: Period: Date: Notes

Apply your thinking to the notes Topic: Organizational, Study Skills and Learning Skills Questions/Main Ideas Alone or with a Study Buddy study your notes, clarifying and completing them. Within 24 hours, use the left hand column to: • Identify main ideas by writing headers • Develop questions for study or clarification • Connect your notes to what you have learned before in that class, in previous years, and in other classes. Summary Name: Class: Period: Date: Notes

Reflect on and Review your notes Topic: Organizational, Study Skills and Learning Skills Questions/Main Ideas For each set of class notes, you need to take the time and summarize what was presented and learned for that day. • Review the main ideas • Summarize what is important • Explain why that is important • Reflect on how the new concept will enhance your learning Summary Name: Class: Period: Date: Notes

Good Study Skills • Get Organized – Use your student planner • Have all supplies ready before you study • Supplies to have: paper, notebooks, calculator, dictionary, pens, pencils, ruler, school books • Keep your backpack organized so you can find what you need without wasting time • Repack your bag at night to avoid rushing to find things in the morning • Don’t forget to pack your homework

Good Study Skills • Schedule a regular homework time for each day • Set up a study center • Choose a quiet area that is comfortable, neat, well-lit, and supplied with the materials that you’ll need. • Examples: your room at a desk, in a calm corner of the house, in a quiet part of the school, Homework Lab, or library • Avoid distractions while you study • This includes TV, loud music, windows with activity outside, phone, textmessaging, computers

Good Study Skills • Get a Study Buddy • Find someone in each class that you can get help from (phone number, email) • Take breaks so you don’t wear yourself out • Have a snack, stretch, take a short walk • Find out what works best for you • Use Cornell Note-taking Strategy • Take great notes!

Organizational Skills

Organized Notebook • Supplies: • • • 3 ring binder Student planner 8 binder dividers with tabs Sheet protectors pens and pencils

Creating an organized notebook • Step 1: Place binder dividers in notebook • Step 2: Use class schedule to write a tab for each class that you have, include periods • Example: Per 1 -PE

Creating an organized notebook • Step 3: Place all work from each class in the correct periods • You can also add folders to each period to know what needs to be done for Homework, by labeling, “Homework” and “Completed”.