Taking Notes: Tips

Ten simple tips were drawn up to give students something to hold on to. You will find these tips in note form, but also in sentences written in full.

Lesson suggestions

Write the tips on the board or project them. Immediately apply tip nine: 'When are your notes enough? If you can transform them into clear, homemade sentences with your own words.'

This gives students a first, clear example of what notes can and should look like. At the same time, all those tips are immediately applied in practice.

Many students are overwhelmed by all those abbreviations, especially dyslexics. Report that taking notes in this way takes a lot of practice and training and that they should start with small steps, for example by first applying three tips and gradually expanding.

Of course it helps if students have to/be able to take notes on a regular basis in their Dutch course and that you, as a teacher, apply those tips yourself in your blackboard notes or in your blackboard book.