Cornell Notes

 

What’s Cornell notes you say? You may think of them as the boring ways your teacher tells you to do your notes. But what you don’t know is that Cornell notes can actually help you a lot!  

Cornell notes is a note taking system devised in the 1950′s by a man named Walter Pauk, a professor at Cornell University.

You divide the paper into 2 columns. On the left side goes your questions, on the right side goes your notes, and when you are done taking your notes, your summary goes at the bottom.

Taking Cornell notes can keep you organized. Instead of going through your notes looking for what you did and getting confused, you have your handy dandy Cornell notes! With the questions, you can see exactly what questions are being answered. With the summary, there are a few sentences summarizing what you did altogether.

In AVID, Cornell notes are a MUST. If you don’t have it then, you are going to get a bad grade on your Binder Check, and wouldn’t want that now would you? Even if you’re not in AVID, it’s still required. You might never know when Dr. Cartwright is going to come in your class and check! So be ready!!

 

-Stephanie L.