In AVID, one of the main things we do is take Cornell Notes in class. While taking Cornell notes, we use a lot of strategies to help turn these Cornell notes into study guides. One big thing we do with these Cornell notes is use a lot of repetition. Things we do in these Cornell notes are we highlight important information, folding the paper to help study, circling key words, and using higher leveled questions to help improve our learning. Those are some of the things we do in Cornell notes.
There're tons of strategies used in Cornell notes. First, there are the basics like creating an initial question for the lesson they're currently taking notes on. Other basics that need to be done include creating high leveled questions on the left side of the Cornell notes, as well as putting a 3-5 sentence summary at the bottom of the Cornell notes. Another thing included in Cornell notes is a 1 sentence summary in between chunks of the Cornell notes. These are all of the basic things that are required to take Cornell notes in any class.
The rubric shown on the right is how we're graded on these Cornell notes in AVID. This shows all of the strategies we use in Cornell notes to help improve our learning. How we are graded on this is how much of these strategies we use in these Cornell notes and how good of repetition is used in the notes, as well as following the basics of taking the Cornell notes. We, re always graded on a scale of 1 to 10, because there're 10 strategies to follow while taking Cornell notes. The minimum score I have on these Cornell notes is a 9, and the highest is 10. That is the rubric used in Cornell notes.