Cornell Note-Taking System

Students in the A. P. European History course will be asked to construct notes in a very different manner than they have had to in the past. The most comprehensive manner in which to construct these notes, utilizing their personal wikis and well as the classroom wiki, is to utilize the Cornell Note Taking System. I have included a link that will give the students some guidance in their construction of notes. In my experience as a teacher, especially with young sophomores jumping to a college level course, the greatest difficulty students have is taking the information of a lecture and marrying that information with the textbook and class discussion. The Cornell System provides the students with a simple framework to begin with. Note: There is always more than one way to skin a cat. If you develop a system that you as an individual feel more comfortable with, by all means go for it. We are always learning from our own experiences.

Click on the following website for some tips. The Cornell Note Taking System

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/docs/cornell_note_taking.doc

Good Luck and please come and see me if there are any problems.