AVID focus note taking session 8.25.22

​Directions: Match the number with the phrase that you think completes the thought. Use the left column first & then as the video plays fill in the column to the right.

• can be done on Google slides, Canva, white boards, or paper.*

• Use with number facts. Add an image or icon to go with the facts.

• 30 years teaching middle school

• 4 certified areas

• 3 counties

• 5 schools

• 11 classrooms

• 13 principals

​OR Why focus note taking has 5 steps.

Use this video to check your number mania guesses.​

​Most of us as teachers have taken notes and have given them to our students to complete. Let's see if we can add to our tool box and shift our thinking from 'notes are a 1 day lesson' to notes as a teaching & learning tool.

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​Flip your 3-2-1 over & evaluate yourself by adding a + in the steps you are doing well and a Δ to areas where you want to change.

​Consider using these as you increase interaction with the notes;

1​. Use a different color for each interaction.*have students make a key.

2. ​Complete each layer (color, task) on a different day.

​3. Start out modeling for them and then gradually release for them to do it on their own.

Ex rotation; Day 1 - add definitions, Day 2 added a drawing, Day 3 -​ rephrase/clarify drawing

​Below are screenshots from a quiz my students took this Spring after doing the Focus Note Taking strategy.

It was by far their highest average score on a quiz.

I saw them looking at their notes between attempts to find the correct answer to missed questions.(CRITICAL THINKING!)

AND Focus notes hit all of WICOR!!​