The Confident Student pages 51-59 and 24 of instructors manual

Video Roundtable Discussion Note taking (Houghton Mifflin Student Success Program)

The text provides a good explanation for several note-taking systems. The Cornell method described here reinforces what students have learn about how the memory works. A practice which is usually helpful to students is to practice taking notes by giving a series of really short lectures and have students compare notes at the end of each lecture. Find the best examples. Discuss why they are good. Then progress to longer lectures.

Discuss problems with taking notes in certain classes or with certain types of lecturers. Have the class make a list of solutions. Discuss how to determine what to write down.

Discuss reasons why you do not take notes or find it difficult to take notes in a certain class and try to determine a solutions to that problem

Have student turn in notes from other classes, a video assignment, the sermon, etc.

Tell students that some time in the next four classes, you will take up their notes from this class.