Student Guide Corner

The ability to synthesize information into its essential and most important components is a skill many struggling learners fail to grasp. Vicki Davis has written a fantastic post called, "Note Taking Skills for 21st Century Students" that I can't recommend highly enough. Even if you just focus on effectively using the  Cornell Two-Column Note Taking system,  you are ahead of the game.  If you are interested to take it to the next level, explore Visual Note Taking which helps connect ideas combining drawing and text. Interested to learn more? Check it out  here . Image - https://31.media.tumblr.com/8d6feed12bde5c24830029f0d718a38f/tumblr_inline_n2p1wuiaVL1rpt8u5.png

I will be leading a 75 minute discussion on teaching (�Coaxing More Excellence from Your Students�) starting at 10:40 a.m. on Saturday, September 27, 2014.    The presentation is part of the 2014 North Carolina Education Forum at the Embassy Suites near Raleigh, NC.    If you are in the area, I hope you will consider attending.   You can get more information at www.ncacpa.org . ** The September 6-7, 2014, issue of The Wall Street Journal had a great article on teaching:    �Four Ways to Spot a Great Teacher.�     It is on page C3 and I would urge you to read it.    Here, I just want to address the four highlights to whet your appetite.    The author (Dana Goldstein) talks about the importance of teaching and how a parent (and I suppose a student) can recognize great teaching.    Here are the four keys as well as my own observations. �Great teachers:    Have active intellectual lives outside thei...