Windows Notes

Window Notes: How to turn note-haters into note-creators - McREL InternationalWindow Notes free instructional tool download | Imagine asking hundreds of students and adults to share their unfiltered thoughts and feelings about taking notes in school. What do you think you’d get back? It turns out that our team has actually conducted this mini research experiment in schools across the country, and here are the most common responses: pained faces, deep shudders, a litany of adjectives like boring, tedious, and torture (not technically an adjective, but you get the idea.)

Notes...With a Difference

This strategy was introduced to me as part of the Gifted Endorsement - and has become a staple in our room, with students actually choosing to take notes this way. It is powerful and it works. Students not only take great notes, but they learn a lot about their own notetaking strategies over time.

Even better, it's easy and takes no prep!

WINDOW NOTES TOOL

See below for the lesson plan and slides.

Window Notes Lesson

Learning Card

Discovering Kites.pdf

Window Notes Lesson - Bryson