Guided Notes 1
Guided Notes 1
Guided Notes 1
NOTES
by Tatiana MacGregor
build and strengthen vocabulary Guided notes are teacher-provided hand-outs that outline lectures but leave blank
develop note-taking and spaces for key concepts, definitions, facts, etc. As the lecture progresses, the students
summarization skills fills in the blanks with the appropriate content. This allows the students to partake in
develop writing skills (Honnart and active listening while also summarizing main concepts or ideas.
Bozan, 2004).
Guided Notes serve as a way to increase active student responding during lecture
and can lead to student organization and engagement. Because students' translations
of lectures are often incomplete and inaccurate, guided notes allow for students to
STATISTICS develop their own note-taking skills (Konrad, Joseph, and Eveleigh, 2009). As a
result, guided notes allow for students to have more complete notes and maintain a
78 % of students indicated that rich reference for tests, quizzes, projects, etc.
guided notes had a positive
impact (Lawrin et al, 2012). To accommodate to students with diverse abilities, the instructor might prepare
Post-secondary students are several versions of guided notes. Students to find note-taking most challenging
notoriously poor note takers would be given guided notes that requires relatively minimal writing, while more
and were found to record only skilled note-takers would delve deeper into topics and concepts and synthesize the
about 50% of the main ideas appropriate information.
during lectures (Konrad et al,
2009).
BRINGING
GUIDED NOTES
INTO YOUR
CLASSROOM
THINGS TO
REMEMBER
GUIDED LECTURE NOTES
Summary Frames are a series of questions that emphasize a main idea or concept
Lottery incentive within a text pattern. Students answer the questions, and then write summaries based
Choral responding off of their questions.
Response cards
Summary Frames
Exit Slips WORKS CITED
Larwin, K.H., Dawson, D., Erickson, M., & Larwin, D.A. (2012). Impact of Guided Notes
on Achievement in K-12 and Special Education Students, International Journal of
Special Education, 27, 108-119.