The book "Classroom Instruction" talked about Note taking and how teachers should encourage students to revise their notes later when the students' understanding deepens. One thing I want to do when I start teaching is have my students take notes and then be required to read through them twice a week for ten minutes (or something like that) and add to them. In high school I always took notes but I rarely looked at them until it was time for a test. If students are periodically looking over thier notes, their recall will be a lot greater and they will remember more details about what they took notes on. then, (in an ideal world), they won't be cramming for test because they will already have most of the basics down. This will teach them good study habits as well because they will see the benefits of actually learning as the class progresses instead of trying to learn everything at the last second when their knowledge is tested.
I think these reflections that we are doing help serve this purpose for this type of class, (a class where we are not really taking notes) because we are required to reflect on what we have learned.
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