1. Don’t Let Learning Fade Away!
Do Your Notes the
CORNELL-WAY!
Good Evening , My name is
I am a ______ grade AVID Student
I’m a future graduate of ______ college or I am a future ______ (career).
Welcome to our session: Don’t Let Learning Fade Away. Do your notes the Cornell Way!

2. In this session you will learn:
Cornell Notes Format and Overview
What Cornell Notes Are and What they Are Not
How to Evaluate Notes for Effectiveness
During our workshop, we’ll show you how your child can use the Cornell Note-Taking System to reinforce their learning. You will see how notes are formatted, what your students should be doing with their notes, and how we evaluate our notes with the Cornell Notes rubric. You will even get a chance to evaluate the effectiveness of your student’s Cornell notes.

3. Why we take CORNELL NOTES
Brain research shows that at the beginning of a lesson, your knowledge is 0% (where the curve starts at the bottom). At the end of that day’s lesson, you know 100% (highest point). As time progresses you begin losing the information. If you have done nothing with the information, you will lose 50% to 80% of it by the next day. And, as you move forward, if you have zero interaction with the material, you will only retain 2 to 3 percent. This may make you feel as if you have never even seen it before: From 100% to Zero in less than thirty days. This is not great timing for your end of unit test.
The trick is to review the content often, so eventually you go from reviewing for 10 minutes, then 5 minutes, and finally 2-4 minutes every week for each class. As you can see, by reviewing your notes a little each day, you retain more of the information that would otherwise be lost. The CORNELL-WAY will help you sustain the content and will one day lead to an “A” on that test!

4. CORNELL NOTE-TAKING SYSTEM
Focused Note-Taking
CORNELL NOTE-TAKING SYSTEM
NOTE-TAKING
NOTE-MAKING
NOTE-INTERACTING
NOTE-REFLECTING
STEP 1
Create Format
STEP 3
Review & Revise Notes
STEP 6
Link Learning to Create a Synthesized Summary
STEP 8
Written Feedback
Cornell Notes is a Focused Note Taking System:
There are 4 stages:
In stage one, students are note-taking. It is important that students format their notes the same way every time to make it easier to locate what they need in their binders for studying.
Note-Making is when students review, revise, and create questions to get a better understanding of the material.
Note-Interacting leads students to bring it all together and summarize their learning
While Note-Reflecting evaluates the effectiveness of the notes.
As you can see, taking notes is only the first part of this system. What students DO with those notes is what makes them effective.
STEP 2
Organize Notes
STEP 4
Note Key Ideas to Create Questions
STEP 7
Use Completed Cornell Notes as a Learning Tool
STEP 9
Address Written Feedback
STEP 5
Exchange Ideas by Collaboration
STEP 10
Your Reflection

5. What do you notice? What They Are What They Are Not
Cornell Notes are not just a line separating the right from left.
Compare these notes? What do you notice? (pause for hands!!) Take some answers from audience
When you have headings that include the topic, class, date, your name, and the essential question, you can easily find the notes you need when you are looking for information. It’s hard to remember from day to day when you took notes on a topic. The headings help you keep track of your learning.
When a student reviews and refines her notes, she can add information that may be missing, highlight key points, identify points of confusion, and develop questions for deeper thought.
Cornell Notes, then, become a learning tool – when summarizing, students bring together everything they have learned to address the essential question, and higher level questions turn these notes into a study guide.

6. Cornell Notes Checklist
Steps
Checklist
Step 1: Create Format
Heading (name, date, class/period
Topic and essential question
Step 2:
Organize Notes
Space is used to show new topics
(skip lines)
Abbreviations/symbols used frequently
Bullets/numbers used to create lists and organize notes
Step 3: Revise Notes
Vocabulary/key terms are circled
Main ideas are underlined or highlighted
Step 4:
Note Key Ideas (Q’s!)
Questions on left are developed to reflect main ideas on right
Questions are mostly higher-level
Step 6:
Link Learning Summary
Summary is present and is thorough (more than just a few sentences)
Summary answers the essential question and higher-level questions on the left side of the notes
Now let’s see if your child’s Cornell Notes are an effective learning tool using our checklist:
Students, take out a page of Cornell Notes from your binder.
Please let us know if you need an example set of notes for this activity! (pass out notes for those who need them)
Parents, take a few minutes to read the Cornell-notes checklist.
Now, as a team, go through the checklist to see how effective the notes are as a learning tool.

7. Turn & Talk Where is there room for improvement?
Have a conversation with your child about his or her Cornell Notes and discuss their next steps for improving this learning tool.
So, how effective are your student’s Cornell Notes?
Turn and Talk with your student and discuss how they scored and what they think they should do to improve their Cornell Notes as a learning tool.

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We hope you have a better idea about the purpose of Cornell Notes and how your AVID students should be using them in their academic classes. Thank you for coming!