It took me a good while to come up with a system that helps in taking notes. This is a short taste of how to take Notes in a class room environment.
Let me say that this post has taken a long time to distill to these simple rules. If you follow these rules, you should have better notes for study, but also have better recall. This system is for any classroom environment, including the full day seminars and classes involved with Corporate or IT training. Remember I am a Computer Programming Instructor in the Corporate/IT world. I know whereof I speak.
First Day is not likely to be a day of instruction for most High School or Colleges. Only a few misguided instructors try to do a lot on the first meeting day. In the Corporate/IT Seminar you may only have a day, or at Max 5 days to do your training. You can’t waste that day no doing lecture/training. Aside from that then your next days makes use of my system.
Step 1 Read the Training Material/Book Prior to the day of training. Take Notes on what you read, either with your computer or take your notes written. Provide Room for adding any Notes from the Lecture.
Step 2 Come to class Rested. Save your Partying for the weekend. It oes no good to come to class if you are not going to Listen
Step 3 Take Notes during lecture. Often the Instructor should provide additional material, or examples to make the concepts clearer. Write these down, so that you can later add them to the notes you took about the Reading.
Step 4 Combine your lecture notes with the notes you took on the reading. This does a few things for you. By adding the notes to your reading notes you read your notes several times. This gives you several repetitions of reading your notes. The other thing this provides is a rather simple set of notes to study from that includes the reading and lectures.
Remember that this is a system. Feel free to change anything so that it works for how you learn. This system got me though College and learning the things I need to know to offer my Training Courses. I’ll be adding further posts on this subject
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