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January 23, 2012

Tumblr professors/grad students/teachers, I need your help.

lemdi:

thedisgruntledgradstudent:

orangutanne:

I’ve been asked to devise a way to teach/grade my students on how to take notes in class, because apparently this is not something many upper-level undergraduates know how to do anymore. I have no idea how to teach or do this - I just have always taken notes in a way that makes sense to me but not necessarily to anyone else.

Does anyone have ideas?

Any ideas, anyone? I’m baffled.

Is there an academic support center on campus, where students would normally go for tutoring? At both of my universities, we had stations affiliated with residence life for tutoring centers, in addition to the writing center. The tutoring centers often offered study skills sessions, and those sessions included note-taking advice. It might be a place to start.

Other departments that had similar services (just as a place to ask for advice/resources; they might not offer classroom presentations):

Non-traditional student services

Accessibility services

Services for conference-level student athletes

Retention programs (often found on res-life or student affairs, focusing on first year students)

Whoever is in charge of your honors program might have an idea. We had a residential honors program, and the study skills session was required for all of us, which was great because most of the freshman honors kids were those of us who’d gotten through high school without having to study a whole lot, and encountering a world where we had to work to keep up was surprisingly tricky at first.

The library (possibly, it will depend on what your system looks like and what instruction sessions they offer)

At NIU, we also had a program for recruitment and retention of minority/low-income/low-enrollment group students, and they did things like this.

Reblogging because yes. Also: a lot of the Greek orgs also have some pretty great study training experience because of the GPA requirements imposed on them by Universities, for good reason.

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