Learning to take notes/tests in middle school

[Anonymous]

At my daughter's public middle school, they never got to see their tests again after they took them, unless they went to the teacher's office hours where she might be able to show it to them (not always). This makes it so that people can't save the answers for other students and prevent cheating, which was apparently once a problem, but makes it hard to know what they got wrong. You will want to teach note taking yourself because they don't teach it at school. My DD is in private school now and having to learn how to take notes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an educator and parent, I was horrified to learn that explicitly teaching note-taking seems to be discouraged now in public schools. For years, I taught a variety of note-taking styles and gave open-note quizzes to encourage students to take good notes. At the end of this past year, I was dinged for observation of a single class that had note-taking. I would have written it off as a fluke, but at the start of the year, I was told by the SDT that teaching note-taking isn’t as important anymore because of technology. I thought this was crazy and said so. The SDT said she could share research that supported her claim and she hoped I wouldn’t waste class time with teaching how to take notes. I’m so grateful my own children are in high school.

Have her produce the research and then you can respond with the research that shows writing by hand increases memory and symbolic recognition. What a joke!