Learning Styles & Note-Taking Skills

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Learning Styles & Note-Taking Skills

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Note-taking skills

Personal skills

Skills can be truly valuable when it comes to convincing a potential employer. Along with work experience and education, your skills will help the employer get a better understanding of your interests and values.

Methods

Matrix Method

Cornell Method

Outline Method

strategy

Specify any other skills which you believe qualify you for the position you are applying.

AFTER CLASS

Review

• Not easy – habit takes time

• Write a brief summary

• Find answers to any questions remaining unanswered

• Hearing a thing once is not enough. Memory requires review and understanding

• Ask for any clarification

• Discuss/Compare with others

• Review your notes and fill any gaps

DURING CLASS

• Leave blank space for later additions

• Use symbols to indicate importance of items

• Integrate with other knowledge you already have

• Ask questions

• Paraphrase

• Write key points only

• Get the main ideas

• Be an active listener

BEFORE CLASS

• Think through what has happened in the class to date

• Review any reading assignment

• Look up key words

• Review previous notes

• Review syllabus (content)

material

• Review your notes and other background

Prepare yourself mentally

Why

These skills enhance your interactions, job performance and career prospects. Soft skills are broadly applicable both in and outside the workplace, and relate to a person's ability to interact effectively with coworkers and customers.

Taking notes helps you become an “active listener” and a “critical thinker”. (different to passive listening)

Notes serve as a “file” of information for later use – study for EXAM!

Helps you engage/pay attention.

What materials do you need

Computer skills you master


Companies are becoming more and more dependent on technology, so your computer skills can easily increase your chances of getting a job that requires such skills. Specify the types of computer skills you master.

Pens, Pencils

Folders with pockets to keep things organized

Binder for organizing

Loose-leaf paper (Notebook)

Your language skills can play an increasingly important role in the workplace.

Specify what languages you know

taking into consideration the levels of understanding, speaking and writing.

Writing down ideas from lectures and readings in your own words

learning Style

Contact information

Any CV or résumé needs to contain your contact information. This way, recruiters can get in touch with you.

How learning style may influence your learning goals

E-mail is the preferred form of communication in today's work environment.

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• Better time-management

• Apply right style in right context

• Greater academic success

• Consequently, become an effective learner

• Identify style that makes your learning ineffective

• Identify styles that develops your skills

• Understand how you learn best

Types

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Kinaesthetic Learners

role playing help to remember and learn.

prefer touch for taking information

prefer to learn through movement

Auditory Learners

read aloud to themselves.

a lecture with a little efforts.

prefer to hear information; can absorb

prefer to learn by hearing

Visual Learners

benefit from using charts, maps and notes.

easily distracted without visual aids.

prefer to see information such as pictures.

prefer to learn by sight.

What

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Learning style is the ‘way’ we take in information and develop our knowledge or skills